NHRA

Gainesville: Tony Pedregon Saturday summary

Tony Pedregon -- Saturday Qualifying Results Gainesville, Fla., March 20, 2004 -- The Quaker State racing team finished qualifying today for the NHRA Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway and made their best pass of the weekend in the ...

Published: Mar 22, 2004, 6:06 AM

Copy link

Share on Viber

Add as a preferred source

Tony Pedregon -- Saturday Qualifying Results

Gainesville, Fla., March 20, 2004 -- The Quaker State racing team finished qualifying today for the NHRA Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway and made their best pass of the weekend in the final session. Defending Funny Car champion Tony Pedregon ran an elapsed time of 5.025 seconds at 302.41 mph to qualify 10th.

"We were a little conservative on our last run and there's probably a good chance that we're going to have to walk that fine line tomorrow," said Pedregon. "I think it was definitely a benefit to us that we got down the track that last session. We always have the tendency to want more performance but we also have to be smart.

"I'm not going to take for granted that we should qualify so we're pleased that we made it in the show," said Pedregon. "I think in time one of our goals will be to improve on our qualifying position but at this point we're still in the learning stages and the fact that we got a couple of good runs in will set the stage for us for tomorrow's eliminations."

Pedregon will face Tommy Johnson Jr. in the first round of eliminations which are set to begin at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow. They are 6-6 when facing each other in competition.

Pedregon will be making his 190th career Funny Car start and will be looking for his 50th career final round and 28th career win. Pedregon has already scored a runner up finish this season. (Phoenix)

Tim Wilkerson earned the top qualifier award with a pass of 4.906 seconds at 300.00 mph.

     Television coverage of final eliminations can be seen on March 22nd
from 11:30 p.m. --  1:30 a.m. on ESPN2.

-pr-

We want your opinion!

What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?

Take our 5 minute survey.

- The Motorsport.com Team

Read and post comments

Share Or Save This Story

Copy link

Share on Viber

Previous article Gainesville: Chevy Saturday summary

Next article Phoenix: Qualifying, Consolation race results

Top Comments

There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?

View More & Comment

Latest news

Liam Lawson’s remarkable form is giving Red Bull a headache for 2027

Formula 1

F1 Formula 1

Mexican GP

10 h

Liam Lawson’s remarkable form is giving Red Bull a headache for 2027

Hanley Motorsports announces multi-class IMSA arrival with BMW support and DXDT deal

IMSA

IMSA IMSA 10 h

Hanley Motorsports announces multi-class IMSA arrival with BMW support and DXDT deal

Why Ferrari must act now after its own 'Papaya Rules' moment

Formula 1

Mexican GP

Why Ferrari must act now after its own 'Papaya Rules' moment

Ryan Preece will switch to No. 6 for 2027 NASCAR Cup season

NASCAR Cup

NAS NASCAR Cup

Martinsville II

12 h

Ryan Preece will switch to No. 6 for 2027 NASCAR Cup season

Subscribe and access Motorsport.com with your ad-blocker.

From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.

You have 2 options:

Become a subscriber.
Disable your adblocker.

Subscribe now Already subscribed? Sign in here

Already disabled your adblocker?
Reload page

Manage Alerts