Tony Pedregon & Q Racing Team Win at Maple Grove

21st Annual NHRA Nationals
Maple Grove Raceway – Mohnton, Pa.
Q Racing Nitro Funny Car - Pedregon Racing
NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series

Tony Pedregon Wins at Reading
Q Racing Shows What It¹s All About

Mohnton, Pa. (September 18, 2005) – Tony Pedregon and his Q Racing Nitro
Funny Car made it to winner¹s circle during today¹s NHRA National Event
at Maple Grove Raceway.

In a nerve wreaking final round against John Force, Pedregon won a pedal
fest with a 
6.349-second elapsed time at 191.02 to beat Force¹s 8.339 seconds pass.
Pedregon, while a
Member of Force¹s team, won this race back in 2003. Todays win is Pedregon¹s
first as a 
team owner.

³I could not ask for anyone better to beat than John (Force),² Pedregon said
the 2003 Funny 
Car World Champion. ³You know that when you beat Force, you have beaten the
best. And of 
course, it also feels great to bring my first check home as a team owner.²

Pedregon elaborated about the ride that took the Q team to victory.

³From the beginning, I felt the car was getting loose,² Pedregon explained.
³I thought my only chance was to get off and on the throttle and hope
that the tires recovered. I fought it hard, and even the blower backfire
on me, but I was able to pedal it down the track. Force had to deal with
similar challenges to control the car.²

After almost two years of hard work, Pedregon and his team brought together
the performance and consistency necessary to achieve victory.

³My goal for this season was to bring a ŒWally¹ to Q¹s headquarters in
Houston,² Pedregon concluded. ³Now I need to reset my goals. This is a long
deserved win for Q Racing and all the support they have provided everyone.
I am very proud of the Q Racing team, they are not only capable of
winning, they also go out and prove it!²

Dickie Venables, crew chief, talks about what this win means to him.

³After more than a year and a half of hard work, this victory is very
gratifying. It makes up for the incident we had on the starting line in
Indy. I am very glad to bring this victory to Q Racing because they deserved
better than what we had been doing so far. Now we have proved what we knew
all along we could do.²

During the first pass of the day, Pedregon beat Mike Ashley to
the finish line, clicking off a 4.850-second elapsed time at 316.90 mph. In
the second round, 
Pedregon had to face his brother Frank (Pedregon). recording an effort of
5.251 seconds to 
Frank¹s 5.871 seconds pass.

For the semifinal round, Pedregon ran against Gary Scelzi and, unlike
Indianapolis, the Q driver arrived to the finish line first logging a
4.907-second elapsed time at 314.97 mph.

-PedregonRacing.com-