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NHRA qualifying on espn2 right now. 9 pm

I'm watching last nights qualifying on ESPN3.

John Force Racing has Robert Height (sic) in first, and his daughter in # 3! Bob Tasca is in second!

Ron & his brother Jon Capps failed to qualify with their Densham team cars.

Densham team cars?????????????????

yeah! Imagine that... I knew that Ron left the Snake Prudohmme, but I didn't know they were forming a team.

I should've been saying WORSHAM! oops.. This is from round 3



Funny Car

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Order for Qualifying Round 3

LAS VEGAS - SUMMIT FastNews - Order after 3 rounds of qualifying in Funny Car at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 13th annual SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals:
Psn Driver Vehicle ET Speed
1. Robert Hight Auto Club Mustang 4.132 310.41
2. Cruz Pedregon Snap-on Tools Solara 4.159 306.19
3. Bob Tasca III Motorcraft/Quick Lane Mustang 4.165 303.23
4. Gary Densham Lawson Rock & Oil Charger 4.181 300.00
5. Mike Neff Castrol GTX Mustang 4.186 303.78
6. John Force Castrol GTX High Mileage Musta 4.196 305.77
7. Matt Hagan Aaron's/Mopar Charger 4.196 299.06
8. Jack Beckman Valvoline NextGen Charger 4.211 302.82
9. Tony Pedregon K-LOVE Impala 4.212 293.73
10. Tim Wilkerson Levi Ray & Shoup Mustang 4.212 292.20
11. Johnny Gray Big O Tires/Service Central Ch 4.244 304.39
12. Courtney Force Traxxas Mustang 4.274 291.70
13. Alexis DeJoria Patron Tequila Camary 4.275 294.24
14. Terry Haddock Acme Refining Impala 4.282 292.01
15. Jeff Arend DHL Solara 4.327 293.35
16. Jon Capps Chuck Worsham Charger 4.448 285.35
--------- Not Qualified ---------
17. Todd Lesenko Tap It Brewing Co. Monte Carlo 4.575 262.18
18. Jim Head Head Racing Solara 4.733 265.59
19. Bob Bode Stupid Fast Racing Impala 4.793 248.57
20. Jeff Diehl J.G. Parks and Son Monte Carlo 5.957 125.03
21. James Day Impulse Racing Monte Carlo 6.980 173.29
22. Ron Capps NAPA Auto Parts Charger 7.647 92.68

It was pretty windy today, but didn't seem to bother the qualifying much. If the weather weenies are correct it'll be almost 20 degrees cooler tomorrow than today. That ought to give the tuners something to chew on!

I didn't get to see much of it. I stumbled across it as I was "surfing"... Cold air = big horsepower... should be FUN!

Looked out at the thermometer on the patio a bit ago, down in the mid 40s, so looks like they will have the cooler air. Thing is, the wind has been blowing HARD and gusty all night, still goin'. That of course goes with the big temp swing as different pressure weathe systems move, but some of the gusts could be an issue unless this settles down once the sun gets up a ways.

Jon C. has been shoeing Henry Gutierrez's Jungle Jim Nostalgia funny car the last couple years but bowed out this year. Guess he plans to concentrate solely on the big show this year.

We hard a hard frost during the night. Grass and cars completely white this morning.. The frost on the grass was crunchy when walked on! Strange weather here also, 80's a week ago now freezing.

I guess I'll have to wait 'til tonite to catch-up with ESPN and see how the cars did. I did see that Dicky Venebles went over to Bob Tasca's crew! That should add decades of experience to that younger team!

Venables doesn't seem to stick in one place very long so not sure how long/much he'll contribute for the long haul. Although, one comment indicated that this was partly a Ford decision with JFR agreeing to help get Tasca back on track.

Whoa..............and Richards resigns from Capp's car last night!!

Well, that sure didn't last long!!!!

Let's see................you have the gnarliest crew chief/co-owner in recent top fuel history, a multi-time champ in Larry Dixson, and the 2011 champ in Worsham, and you dump both those drivers. Hmmmmmmm. Now you can't get either car past the first round. Sounds like kharma to me..........