{"id":92362,"date":"2024-04-13T15:18:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T15:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/john-force-racing-keeps-momentum-going-with-strong-qualifying-effort-in-vegas\/"},"modified":"2024-04-13T15:18:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T15:18:21","slug":"john-force-racing-keeps-momentum-going-with-strong-qualifying-effort-in-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/john-force-racing-keeps-momentum-going-with-strong-qualifying-effort-in-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"John Force Racing Keeps Momentum Going with Strong Qualifying Effort in Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing\u00a0<\/strong>the momentum\u00a0<\/strong>gained from two wins last weekend at Phoenix, John Force Racing got off to a strong start in Friday\u2019s first day of qualifying for the NHRA 4-Wide Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n

In Funny Car, Austin Prock captured the provisional No. 2 qualifying position, while team owner John Force grabbed the No. 3 spot. Meanwhile, Brittany Force took the provisional No. 5 qualifying spot in Top Fuel.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re coming back stronger this year,\u201d Brittany Force said of the collective JFR effort. \u201cIt was a tough season for us last year. We\u2019re not done qualifying, there\u2019s still more out there, but qualifying 2, 3 and 5 is a pretty good place to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Driving the Cornwell Tools Chevrolet Camaro SS Funny Car, Prock was second-quickest (4.015 seconds\/317.34 mph) after Friday\u2019s first round of qualifying.<\/p>\n

In the second round, he briefly grabbed the No. 1 spot (3.947 seconds\/321.42 mph) before Bob Tasca III passed him by.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a great start to the day,\u201d Prock said. \u201cWe have to keep pecking away at No. 1. We\u2019re having fun out here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prock has two more chances Saturday to retake that No. 1 spot from Tasca and any other challengers for king of the Funny Car hill.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were second-quick both sessions,\u201d Prock said. \u201cQ1 we made a little bit of a mistake and it probably cost us low ET in the second session. We couldn\u2019t push quite as hard as we wanted to but did good enough to run second-quick, so that\u2019s four more points for this Cornwell Tools machine.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re the Funny Car points leader now, so hopefully we can hang onto that throughout the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prock has been the most successful qualifier in Funny Car this season. In his first NHRA race ever in a Funny Car, he earned No. 1 honors in the season-opening race at Gainesville, Fla., and again last week in Phoenix.<\/p>\n

He finished runner-up at Gainesville and then earned his first Funny Car \u201cWally\u201d winner\u2019s trophy at Phoenix, joining team owner John Force, who won the weather-delayed final round of Pomona (which was rescheduled and relocated to Phoenix).<\/p>\n

Speaking of Force, he failed to qualify (4.579 seconds\/183.59 mph) in Friday\u2019s first round, leaving him and his PEAK Antifreeze & Coolant Chevrolet Camaro SS Funny Car team needing to roar back with a stronger effort in the day\u2019s second round.<\/p>\n

And roar back, Force did, with an effort of 3.962 seconds\/313.73 mph, seeing him jump up to the provisional No. 3 qualifying position.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited for PEAK, Monster, Cornwell and of course, Chevrolet,\u201d Force said. \u201cWe\u2019re on a roll here. But trust me, I had my hands full on that last round.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was down sideways in the lights. It got loose but I was able (to hold it), because I\u2019ve learned from making that mistake, get it off that center. I got it off and made it to the light. So, it was a good day for me personally and a good day for the entire team.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Top Fuel on Friday, Brittany Force was the No. 8 provisional qualifier in the first round (4.804 seconds\/155.04 mph).<\/p>\n

But in the second round, the driver of the Monster Energy Top Fuel Dragster had a significantly better run of 3.820 seconds at 326.56 mph, moving her up to the No. 5 spot on the qualifying ladder.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur first run was unfortunate,\u201d Brittany Force said. \u201cIt\u2019s not what we were aiming to do. We didn\u2019t have enough in the car, we slowed it down, and it went out there and drove into smoke again.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we stepped it up in Q2, went straight down there and ran an .82. That was great. So it\u2019s a great spot to be in. We get two more runs in the other two lanes Saturday, so I\u2019m looking forward to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

One other item of note: Saturday\u2019s two final Funny Car qualifying sessions will also be part of the season-long Mission #2Fast2Tasty NHRA Challenge.<\/p>\n

Force and Prock will square off against each other along with Funny Car points leader J.R. Todd and Dan Wilkerson in one quad segment of the Challenge, while the other quad features Alexis DeJoria, Cruz Pedregon, Paul Lee and Blake Alexander.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published on April 13, 2024. <\/p>\n

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Continuing\u00a0the momentum\u00a0gained from two wins last weekend at Phoenix, John Force Racing got off to a strong start in Friday\u2019s first day of qualifying for the NHRA 4-Wide Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. In Funny Car, Austin Prock captured the provisional No. 2 qualifying position, while team owner John Force grabbed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}