Last weekend at Memphis Motorsports Park Tony Pedregon won his semifinal match despite the body on this Funny Car taking off like a rocket ship and then floating through the air like a UFO. 

 

Last weekend at Memphis Motorsports Park Tony Pedregon won his semifinal match despite the body on this Funny Car taking off like a rocket ship and then floating through the air like a UFO. 

Pedregon, who lost in the final round to Jeff Arend, had a little luck on his side when it came to the rulebook. The NHRA rulebook states that a Funny Car must weigh 2550 pounds at the end of a run. Obviously, Pedregon's car would have come up short at the scales.

First off, prior to the start of the round, with rain still threatening and time getting short on a Monday afternoon, NHRA officials had already decided not to weigh the cars after their semi final runs. Secondly, had they weighed the cars, Pedregon's team, with the help of the Safety Safari, would have gathered up as much of the body as possible, piled in onto the chassis and before checking the numbers on the scales.

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