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Jegs Allstars finals set

Prior to the day's first round of Professional qualifying, the semifinals of the JEGS Allstars were contested to set up the final-round matchup that will run later today.

Comp: Monty Bogan vs. Josh Lee
Super Stock: Larry Leazer vs. Jeremy Duncan
Stock: Landon Emmons vs. Steve Foley
Super Comp: Tanner Thorp vs. Bradley Snowball
Super Gas: James Perry vs. Charles Kenopic
Super Street: Donald Webb vs. John Leibham
Top Dragster: Mark Grame vs. Blake Peavler
Top Sportsman: Dennis Dowson vs. Curt Fredrich

The Top Alcohol semifinals were run last night. Here are their final-round matchups:

Top Alcohol Dragster: Matthew Cummings vs. Joey Severance
Top Alcohol Funny Car: Brian Hough vs. Jim Whiteley

Team standings: Even before the final rounds, the West squad has already wrapped up the Regional (Top Alcohol) title, while Division 2 has won the other team championship.

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Top Fuel Q3

With today's heat, there won't be a lot of improvements, and teams are likely working on their raceday tune-ups

Josh Hart backed up his Friday night 3.74 with a fine 3.793 (a number matched by Tony Schumacher but at a lower speed).

"We're all about consistency and trying to find our racecar again," said Hart. "All of the guys are great, keeping their noses to the grindstone to make it happen."

Second-place Justin Ashley scored bonus points for the third straight session with a 3.800 that was the third-best run of the session,

Ida Zetterström, who is bannering Dialight, a world leader in LED industrial lighting technology, on the side of her JCM dragster this weekend, was one of many who didn't make a full pass coming off her first final-round appearance two weeks ago in St. Louis, but remains solidly in the field with her Friday 3.78.

Friday's low qualifier, Shawn Langdon, and crew chief Brian Husen stretched the limits of the envelope of experimentation and smoked the tires.

Local hero Steve Torrence was tickling the beams to shallow stage but ended up rolling the beams and appeared to double-step the throttle and lost the run, but he, too, is solidly in the field.

After sitting out both of Friday's sessions, rookie Kyle Satenstein made his first run of the event a solid one with a 3.94 that got him into the field for now.

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Funny Car Q3

Even with the track temperature at a borderline but usually manageable 117 degrees, a lot of teams struggled to find the right combination.

It wasn't until the final pair that a three-second run flashed on to the Motorplex scoreboard, with tuner Jimmy Prock assessing all of the data from everyone who ran before the Cornwell Tools Chevy to tune his son, Austin, to a 3.99.

Two of the class' most wily crew chiefs, Dickie Venables and Tim Wilkerson, had shown how it was done midway through the session with respective 4.01 and 4.03 runs by J.R. Todd and Daniel Wilkerson, and Jack Beckman wedged between the two of them later in the session with a 4.02.

So far in qualifying, points leader Prock has outpointed his second-place teammate Beckman, 6-2, in session bonus points, pushing his lead to 24 markers.

The bump spot is 4.157 held by Chris King, with Blake Alexander on the outside looking in with one session to go.

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Pro Stock Q3

There was never a question that Greg Anderson's 6/49 from Friday night would not be challenged today and it was not, but where almost everyone else fell .05-second off of their night runs, Anderson was only .04-second slower and clocked a 6.532 for his third straight low e.t. of the session and another three bonus points.

Teammates Dallas Glenn (6.556) and Cory Reed (6.557) also got bonus points in the session. Anderson has accrued a perfect nine bonus points to point leader Glenn's three, catching Glenn's incoming lead from 25 points to just 19 markers.

In a weird twist, David Cuadra sits on the bump spot with a 6.554 from Q2, a number that was matched by his twin brother, Cristian, in that same session, but David's superior speed, 210.61 mph to 210.26, has David in the field and Cristian not with one run to go.

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Pro Stock Motorcycle Q3

Leave it to Pro Stock Motorcycle wunderkind Gaige Herrera to flip the script. After being outpowered and probably outridden by teammate Richard Gadson throughout the Countdown, the two-time and reigning world champ stunned everyone with a 6.758, not good enough to go around Gadson's Friday 6.747, but an improvement over his own Friday pass and the best run of the session, worth three bonus points.

Gadson wasn't far behind with a 6.770 with their third teammate, Brayden Davis, next best at 6.771.

The three Vance & Hines Suzukis-- Gadson, Herrera, and Davis -- hold down the field's first three spots, followed by three Matt Smith Racing Buells of Smith himself, wife Angie, and Reading winner John Hall.

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JEGS Allstars final rounds

Top Alcohol Dragster: Joey Severance def. Matt Cummings
Top Alcohol Funny Car: Jim Whiteley def. Brian Hough
Comp: Monty Bogan def. Joshua Lee
Super Stock: Jeremy Duncan def. Larry Leazer
Stock: Steve Foley def. Landon Emmons
Super Comp: Tanner Thorp def. Bradley Snowball
Super Gas: James Perry def. Charles Kenopic
Super Street: Donald Webb def. John Leibham
Top Dragster: Blake Peavler def. Mark Grame
Top Sportsman: Dennis Dowson def. Curt Fredrich

Complete results story

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Top Fuel Q4

Shawn Langdon rebounded from an offpace Q3 run to make the best run of Q4 and solidify his 22nd career No. 1 start. The run was important as it's about the same time we'll run final rounds tomorrow, and Langdon and team need a big weekend to chase down Doug Kalitta and Justin Ashley for the championship.

Kalitta had the second-best run of the session, a 3.838, with Brittany "340" Force at third with a 3.846 in that session.

Langdon will start his Sunday against Texan Mitch King, while Ashley, the No. 3 qualifier, will go off against Doug Foley, and Kalitta, who ranked fifth, will square off with  Jasmine Salinas. Unsaid in there with the championship contender is Shawn Reed, who had a consistently quick car throughout eliminations and qualfiied No. 2 with a 3.685 recorded in Friday night's "hero session."

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Funny Car Q3

For the third time in four sessions this weekend, Austin Prock had the best car and collected another three bonus points -- nine so far for the event -- to give himself a little more breathing room over Matt Hagan, who got no bonus points through four sessions and wound up a disappointing 12th on the ladder.

Prock's 3.934 got the job done in hot weather, setting himself up for a good Sunday run. Daniel Wilkerson was an impressive second this session with a 3.964, and Bob Tasca III was the only other driver to receive a three-second time slip after a 3.983.

On the outside looking in, Blake Alexander gutted his way past bump sitter Chris King's 4.157 with a cylinder-dropping, sphincter-clenching 4.124. King was watching from the burnout box and had a chance to get back in, but had to get out of the throttle early.

Prock will go off against Alexander in round one, while Hagan will have to beat resilient Paul Lee without lane choice. Prock's teammate, second-place Jack Beckman, will take on Dave Richards in the opening stanza Sunday.

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Pro Stock Q4

Dallas Glenn got three big bonus points with the best run of Q4, a 6.547, after Greg Anderson appeared to have a little mental disconnect on the line and slowed to a 6.553, which was fourth best and got no points for the session.

Between Glenn and Anderson were the 6.551s of Matt Hartford and Cory Reed, with Hartford getting the two points based on a superior speed.

Anderson will take on No. 16 qualifier (6.554) David Cuadra while Glenn will face off against Cody Coughlin. Cory Reed, the only driver to earn bonus points in all four sessions, qualified No. 2 and will take on Troy Coughlin Jr.

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Pro Stock Motorcycle Q4

The back-and-forth battle between teammates Richard Gadson and Gaige Herrera tilted back to Herrera again in Q4, as for the second straight session, the two-time world champ outran the points leader, this time on a 6.752 to 6.764 count. All told, Gadson collected 10 session points and remained the No. 1 qualifier while Herrera picked up eight markers and qualified second, meaning they can't meet until the final round Sunday.

Perhaps just as important, third-best qualifier John Hall was seven-hundredths behind the duo with a 6.839, with his teammate, Angie Smith, right behind at 6.839.

Gadson will face Lance Bonham in round one, while Herrera will face off against Charles Poskey.

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Qualifying wrapup

Friday leaders Prock, Langdon, Anderson, Gadson hold on to No. 1 spots in Dallas

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Lottig locks down Holley EFI Factory X championship

Lenny Lottig clinched the Holley EFI Factory X world championship in round one of the Texas NHRA FallNationals in his Bill Jenkins Grumpy’s Toy Tribute Camaro to lock up his first title. The title was his after his closest challenger, Jesse Alexandra lost in round one. To be fair, no matter what happened to Alexandra, Lottig only needed to stage his entry to clinch the crown.

Lottig, who scored his first career win in the category last season in Norwalk en route to a third-place finish in the standings, built his 2025 championship resumé on the back of three wins this season, scoring in Charlotte, Richmond, and Reading, and also recorded runner-up finishes in Norwalk and Indy. All told, he reached the final round of five of the year’s first seven events. [Full story]