Cruz Pedregon Final Qualifying Notes
20th Annual NHRA Fall Nationals Texas Motorplex Ennis, Texas Advance Auto Parts Nitro Funny Car - Pedregon Racing NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series Cruz Pedregon Final Qualifying Notes ENNIS, Texas (October 8, 2005) - Cruz Pedregon, driver of the Advance Auto Parts Nitro Funny Car, was left on the outside as qualifying closed for this weekend's 20th annual NHRA Fall Nationals at Texas Motorplex. Pedregon was not able to improve on his Friday run of 4.911 seconds at 319.37 mph and was surpassed by brother Frank Pedregonıs run of 4.768 seconds during todayıs first session. After a No. 1 qualifier last weekend at Joliet, Ill., Pedregon talked about the ups and downs the Advance Auto Parts team is experiencing. ³We did not have a bad first run,² Pedregon explained. ³But for the rest of qualifying, problems kept popping up and made it difficult to make it down the track. Iım going to meet with Ron (Douglas, crew chief) and Sam (Shockey, co crew chief) to evaluate carefully all the data we have. I felt we were having some problems with the fuel system, but we need to investigate it further. ³Weıre are going to stay here Monday to do some testing,² Pedregon added. ³Weıll do whatever we need to do to get the car ready for Las Vegas. We had a good car last weekend (in Joliet. Ill.,) and we need to pick up where we left off there.² -PedregonRacing.com- Public Relations Contact: Alti Perea, Cox Marketing Group Media Relations Representative alti@coxmarketinggroup.com (704) 779-3648 mobile (704) 799-2114 office David Harris, Cox Marketing Group Account Manager davidh@coxmarketinggroup.com (704) 756-9301 - mobile (704) 799-2114 office Pedregon Racing Advance Auto Parts Nitro Funny Car/ ŒQı Racing Nitro Funny Car (704) 799-2114 office