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Qualified: No. 10

The Competition: No. 7 Matt Hagan

The Results:
Q1: 7.389 E.T. at 93.95 MPH
Q2: 7.299 E.T. at 101.90 MPH
Q3: 4.151 E.T. at 296.96 MPH (One bonus point for third quickest run of the session)
Q4: 4.099 E.T. at 308.92 MPH

Bonus Points: One

Quotable:
“(Hagan and I) have been racing each other early far too much this year, and that’s just a by-product of one of us qualifying in the bottom half. I wish I could say ‘we’ve got lots of data to comb over tonight to figure this out for tomorrow,’ but we don’t have hardly any Denver data to comb over. And, conditions tomorrow will be radically different than what they were at 10:00 p.m. tonight. We have data from last year; we ran well in different conditions. We’re going to have to go back and lean on some of that stuff. But I’ll tell you what I’m proud of. Friday night, this thing went out there and broke the x-member out of the chassis and could’ve really affected our race car chassis. The guys did some welding, did some parts replacement, rescaled the car, and we came out here Saturday and went down the track two times.”

Qualified: No. 4 (lane choice)

The Competition: No. 13 Todd Simpson

The Results:
Q1: 5.245 E.T. at 141.71 MPH
Q2: 4.005 E.T. at 316.97 MPH (Two bonus points for second quickest of the session)
Q3: 6.925 E.T. at 91.27 MPH
Q4: Cancelled due to rain

Bonus Points: Two

Quotable:
“I always feel good going into race day, no matter the conditions. But, this has been an adverse weekend as far as crew chiefs and having to adapt. We saw super-hot temperatures Friday, and then Saturday, we had a storm come in, the temperature dropped and then the rain came in again and it just got pushed back to where the last two pairs of cars didn’t get to run in Funny Car. We were hoping to get a shot at the track after watching a couple of cars go 3.97, and we didn’t get that chance and ended up finishing fourth. But, no matter what, (crew chief Rahn) Tobler will be on it, and I just have to do my job, and hopefully, we’ll have another good weekend.”

Qualified: No. 7 (lane choice)

The Competition: No. 10 Jack Beckman

The Results: 
Q1: 4.324 E.T. at 232.43 MPH (Three bonus points for quickest run of the session)
Q2: 9.089 E.T. at 80.22 MPH
Q3: 4.054 E.T. at 283.07 MPH (Three bonus points for quickest run of the session)
Q4: 13.239 E.T. at 76.64 MPH

Bonus Points: Five

Quotable:
“We’ll take it; top-half of the field, lane choice. It’s always tough up here on the mountain, but we’ve got a new look and a new feel to the car, and we’ll get after it tomorrow on race day.”

Qualified: No.  2 (lane choice)

The Competition: No. 15 Jeff Diehl

The Results: 
Q1: 7.235 E.T. at 89.20 MPH
Q2: 6.619 E.T. at 97.96 MPH
Q3: 4.091 E.T. at 300.86 MPH (Two bonus points for second quickest run of the session)
Q4: 3.978 E.T. at 317.72 MPH (Two bonus points for second quickest run of the session)

Bonus Points: Four

Quotable:
“It’s tough to run up here, and Friday proved that. Everybody struggled to try and get a handle on the tune-up. Luckily, we were able to get four qualifying runs in with the rain showers and refine the tune-up and get a handle on it. Tonight’s Q4 run was probably in a little bit better conditions than we’ll see tomorrow, but it’s going to be close. It’s supposed to be nice and cool tomorrow. I was a little worried about running (E1) at 11:00 a.m. because we don’t have any data from 11:00 a.m., but this will be close. I’m excited. We hit the tune-up pretty good on that last run, and we should have a solid car for tomorrow.”