NHRA - National Hot Rod Association

Jack Beckman has the lead halfway through Funny Car qualifying after powering his Infinite Hero Dodge to a 3.891 under the lights at zMAX Dragway.

Points leader Robert Hight had the only other three-second pass, a 3.935 that could have been quicker but slowed before the finish line and coasted across at just 285 mph.

As good as those two were, all of the other teams struggled as Jeff Diehl’s 4.426 was the third best pass. Terry Haddock lost a solid 4.172 when the headers of his newly-sponsored ChecklistBoards.com Mustang scraped the guardwall just before the finish line.

Qualifying order after Q2:

[Q1 recap]