Highlights:
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* Hagan is defending winner and hopes to extend DSR's record win streak of 11 Funny Car event titles which he launched last year at Texas Motorplex
* Hagan leads DSR teammates in battle for Funny Car world championship
* DSR's
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* Pruett pulls double duty for the fifth time this season as she qualifies her Mopar Dodge Challenger Drak Pak 13th for Factory Stock Showdown (FSS)
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Hagan's fourth No.1 qualifier position of the 2020 NHRA season, the 40th of his career, also puts him in prime position to defend his 2019 Texas Motorplex Wally trophy and extend his team's record win streak of 11 consecutive Funny Car victories which was launched with his win here last year.
Hagan's efforts in qualifying earned him five bonus points as he posted the second quickest run in the first session, a 3.890-second elapsed time pass at 323.97 mph, and the best run of the second session, a 3.860 sec./328.54 mph lap, to stay atop the standings and ahead of teammates
Hagan will begin his race day against No. 16 seed
Winner of the Mopar Express Lane NHRA Midwest Nationals near
Fourth in points and also on Sunday's eliminations ladder, Capps will line-up his Dodge Charger next to
Two weeks removed from a harrowing incident aboard her DSR dragster in eliminations,
For a fifth event this season, Pruett will pull double duty as she also competes in Factory Stock Showdown (FSS) aboard her Mopar Dodge Challenger alongside teammate
Pawuk qualified No. 6 aboard his Empaco Equipment
Elimination rounds for the
ADDITIONAL NOTES and QUOTES:
(No.6 Qualifier - 3.917 seconds at 328.70 mph)
Qualifying 1: 3.917 sec./ 328.70 mph
Qualifying 2: 3.978 sec./ 316.23 mph
'So we unloaded with a nice run and that always takes the pressure off. Even though there's only 16 cars you always want to qualify well and you want bonus points and we did that on the first run. We tried some different parts on the second run and we're not quite sure what happened. All of our backup parts should be good and predicable. Something probably didn't do what it was supposed to do in the bellhousing department. We'll go back and look at all the data and figure it out and have a hot race car for tomorrow. I'm looking for four win lights for the Infinite
Qualifying 1: 3.890 sec./ 323.97 mph
Qualifying 2: 3.860 sec./ 328.54 mph
'We made two great runs with this Pennzoil Dodge. It was a bit of a cluster up there for the second run. We were trying to make a clutch call and
Qualifying 1: 3.871 sec./ 315.34 mph
Qualifying 2: 3.914 sec./ 315.78 mph
'We were going for it on the second lap and it laid over a little bit on the top end there. No biggie, still two good laps. I knew they were taking as swing as we had nothing to lose. We have a good, solid race car for MD Anderson. We're strong contenders for tomorrow. We're in top half of the field again and we've put ourselves in a strong position and we're doing everything we can to make it a good race day and championship chase.'
Qualifying 1: 8.473 sec./ 74.92 mph
Qualifying 2: 3.885 sec./ 326.79 mph
We certainly didn't start off the way we wanted to and this current format with only two qualifying runs on Saturday, you hate to lose one. It actually shook the tires on the first run, but (Rahn)
Qualifying 1: 4.104 sec./ 203.92 mph
Qualifying 2: 3.732 sec./ 318.77 mph
'It was a very progressive qualifying day for the SRT Hellcat Redeye team. Especially after
Qualifying 1: 7.934 sec./ 174.21 mph
Qualifying 2: 7.934 sec./ 174.21 mph
'It was another decent qualifying outing for the Empaco Equipment
(No. 13 Qualifier - 8.001 seconds at 172.56 mph)
Qualifying 1: 8.002 sec./ 172.56 mph
Qualifying 2: 8.001 sec./ 170.82 mph
'We made a lot of major changes between Q1 and Q2, from Friday to Saturday, and we had nearly the same result. Where we qualified was in the No. 13 spot. We know what our handicap is and we're not able to adjust for that this season. We will try to put as much power to the ground as we can and Mark's (Pawuk) car is carrying the Mopar flagship and it's important to keep him fighting for the Factory Stock championship. I love this class. It's a lot of fun and I love running for Mopar and to compete and win.'
NHRA Championship Points Standings:
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