TONY PEDREGON AND THE Q POWER RACE TEAM QUALIFY 2ND, BUT
SUFFER TOUGH FIRST ROUND LOSS IN BRAINERD
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 14, 2006
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TONY PEDREGON AND THE Q POWER RACE TEAM QUALIFY 2ND,
BUT SUFFER TOUGH FIRST ROUND LOSS IN BRAINERD
2006 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series
Round 16 of 23
NHRA Nationals, Brainerd (MN) Int'l Raceway
Race Date: August 11-13, 2006
BRAINERD, Minn. (August 14, 2006) - Despite qualifying second at the NHRA
Nationals this past weekend at Brainerd (MN) Int'l Raceway, Tony Pedregon
and his Q Power Race Team lost in the first round of the Nitro Funny Car
division. The second-place qualifying effort allowed Pedregon to retain
third place in the 2006 point standings.
"We are encouraged we had a car that qualified well (2nd) - we had some of
the quickest runs each session in qualifying and maintained third in the
point standings," Pedregon explained. "It's a shame the Q Power team
encountered a part failure which took power away in the first round, which
is the reason the car slowed down by a tenth of a second. We ran a 4.85
instead of a 4.75 that would have put us easily into the second round.
We'll have to go back through all of our inventory to make sure this doesn't
happen again. We are still in contention for the championship and looking
forward to going rounds in Memphis."
NEXT RACE: August 18-20 - NHRA Nationals, Memphis (TN) Motorsports Park
BRAINERD RACE RESULTS:
QUALIFIED:
2nd - 4.773 / 321.04
FIRST ROUND:
Tim Wilkerson - 4.805 / 325.14 def. Tony Pedregon - 4.858 / 311.56
FUNNY CAR POINT STANDINGS:
1. Ron Capps, 1175
2. John Force, 1127
3. Tony Pedregon, 985
4. Eric Medlen, 983
5. Robert Hight, 946
6. Tommy Johnson Jr., 938
7. Gary Scelzi, 935
8. Whit Bazemore, 819
9. Del Worsham, 707
10. Cruz Pedregon, 672
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