NHRA - National Hot Rod Association

Matt Hagan is on pace to continue his every-other-year dominance of Funny Car as the 2015 and 2017 event champ raced into the final round, where he will face world champ J.R. Todd.

Hagan, whose Dickie Venables-tuned Sandvik Coromant Dodge Charger Hellcat was the only Funny Car to make it down a cool track during Friday qualifying, made his third straight three-second pass of eliminations, a 3.921, to beat Bob Tasca III’s 3.983.

Hagan will not have lane choice in the final as Todd, who lost in the first round of the season opener in Pomona and almost lost in the first round this weekend, and his DHL Toyota team have rebounded with increasingly better passes of 3.96 and, against Winternationals champ Robert Hight, a 3.919.

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