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Brittany Force and Alexis DeJoria held connected to the apical qualifying spots successful Top Fuel and Funny Car, and Greg Anderson and Steve Smith vaulted to the apical of the velocity charts successful Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle during 2nd time qualifying Saturday for the Dodge//SRT NHRA Nationals astatine Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Force improved connected her Friday clip of 3.693 seconds with a 3.668 tally astatine 331.36 mph successful the last league to gain her 12th apical qualifying spot of the season. DeJoria remained successful the catbird spot with her 3.896 posted Friday. Anderson grabbed the apical spot from teammate Kyle Koretsky with a walk of 6.65 for his 11th debased qualifier grant of 2021, with Smith mounting the accelerated clip successful the bikes with a 6.839.
“We’re successful the hunt for this championship, and we’re successful a large spot,” said Force, who started the play successful 2nd place, 73 points down three-time defending Top Fuel champion Steve Torrence, who was second-fastest with a 3.71 Saturday. “We got that No. 1, we picked up a ton of bonus points and excited to get present (Sunday) and get started.”
It has been a speedy weekend, arsenic an awesome 13 dragsters qualified quicker than 3.8 seconds, with 2 much nether 3.90.
The Funny Car points pb changed hands successful last qualifying. Matt Hagan, who started the play a constituent down Ron Capps successful the hottest of the 4 title battles, posted the champion tally during the past league and collected 5 bonus points to Capps’ three.
Hagan is pursuing his 4th Funny Car rubric and volition commencement Sunday’s eliminations 2 points up of Capps.
Final eliminations statesman astatine 11 a.m. Sunday.
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