Tony Pedregon Qualifies Seventh in E-Town

36th annual K&N Filters SuperNationals
Old Bridge Township Raceway Park– Englishtown, N.J.
Q Racing Nitro Funny Car - Pedregon Racing
NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series

Tony Pedregon Takes Seventh in Englishtown Qualifying
Q Racing Team In The Top Half of the Field

ENGLISHTOWN, N.J. (June 18, 2005) Tony Pedregon and the Q Racing team
finished qualifying today for the K&N Filters SuperNationals at Old Bridge
Township Raceway Park. The Q Racing Nitro Funny Car driver held on to his
run from Friday night of 4.821 seconds at 318.39 mph to claim the seventh
qualifying spot.

During today¹s first session, Pedregon started very aggressively, but the
track was not able to hold and turned the pass into tire smoke. In the last
session, the Q Racing driver had a solid run pedaling the car to a
4.881-second elapsed time at 301.67 mph.

³The car was a little too light in the front today,² Dickie Venables (crew
chief) said. ³We had too much spoiler and the car got off the groove. The
goal was to go for the top spot but it could not be.

³Tomorrow we plan to go back to the hot track set up’² added Venables. ³It
seems the weather will stay in the 70s but we don¹t know what the
track temperature is going to be, so we¹ll have to be able to adapt. The Q
Racing team has the performance and is making strides in consistency. I feel
We¹re right on the edge of doing something good.²

Pedregon will run against No. 10 qualifier Ron Capps in the first round of
eliminations, scheduled to start tomorrow at 11 a.m. (ET)