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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nPruett\u2019s\nopponent for her first semifinal appearance of the season was No. 3 qualifier\nMike Salinas who had the slight advantage off the start as she lost traction\nright at the hit of the throttle. While disappointed by the loss, her\nperformance this weekend put her back into the top-ten in the Top Fuel\nstandings and has her looking forward to getting her 11,000 horsepower\nDodge\/\/SRT\u00ae<\/sup> HEMI\u00ae<\/sup>-powered machine back on track in July for the first of three\nwestern swing events that begin with the Dodge Power Brokers Mile-High\nNationals at Bandimere Speedway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In\nFunny Car action, the category points leader heading into the weekend, TSR\ndriver Matt Hagan, qualified his Dodge Power Brokers Charger SRT Hellcat among\nthe top-five positions on the eliminations ladder for a ninth time this season.\nHis lap of 3.917 seconds at 329.91 mph put him fifth on the qualifying\ntimesheet and set up a first round match-up with No. 12 seed Tim\nWilkerson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Looking\nto repeat his 2018 winning performance at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports\nPark, Hagan staged his HEMI-powered Funny Car next to No. 12 seed Tim Wilkerson\nfor the opening round and made a solid pass to advance while his opponent lost\ntraction at the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nDodge Power Broker Funny Car moved on to the quarterfinals where Hagan faced\noff against No. 4 qualifier Bob Tasca III, but saw his ride lose traction early\nin the run which brought the day to an earlier end than has been the case after\nadvancing to the final round six times in ten events this season to date. The\nquarterfinal result, combined with Hagan\u2019s closest championship rival Robert\nHight\u2019s eventual event win at Norwalk, meant a drop to second place in the\nstandings but just 21 points behind the new points leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Winner\nof last year\u2019s Funny Car Wally trophy at Norwalk, Cruz Pedregon was looking to\ndefend that performance as he qualified in the top-half of the Funny Car\neliminations ladder for a tenth consecutive event this season by taking his\nSnap-on\u00ae Tools Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat for a 3.960 seconds lap to put him in\nthe eighth spot. Pedregon also earned an extra bonus point in qualifying for\nrecording the third quickest elapsed time lap in the first session of the\nweekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In his opening elimination round pairing with No. 9 seed Chad Green, Pedregon hit the throttle first and never looked back with a 3.972-second lap that wasn\u2019t far off his qualifying time. That set up a quarterfinal battle against No. 1 qualifier Ron Capps in which Pedregon\u2019s 3.982 sec.\/323.50 mph run wasn\u2019t quite enough to beat his opponents 3.974\/327.59 winning effort. The team\u2019s eighth quarterfinal performance of the season keeps Pedregon fifth in the Funny Car standings. The NHRA returns to action July 15-18 near Denver, Colorado, where Dodge\/\/SRT and Mopar\u00ae<\/sub> will mark their 33rd season as title sponsors of the Dodge Power Brokers Mile-High Nationals at Bandimere Speedway, the longest continuous event sponsorship in motorsports history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) Top Fuel pilot Leah Pruett recorded her strongest performance of the season to date aboard her Dodge Power Brokers dragster with a semifinal appearance at the 15th annual National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Summit Racing Equipment Nationals near Norwalk, Ohio, the tenth of 22 Camping World Drag Racing Series events this season. After four qualifying runs put her 15th on the ladder, Pruett kicked off eliminations by upsetting No. 2 qualifier Justin Ashley with her quickest pass of the weekend. 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