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Continuing what has been a season of absolute dominance in the performance category for the young Funny Car pilot, Courtney Force drove the Advance Auto Parts Chevrolet Camaro SS Funny Car to the top of the charts Friday evening at the 31st annual Toyota NHRA Sonoma Nationals at Sonoma Raceway.

If her time holds on Saturday, it will be her 10th top qualifier award in 14 races and fifth in the last six races.

“(The run) felt great. I hit the parachutes down at the top end and I felt the negative Gs hit hard and I knew we had a great pass,” said Force, who leads the Funny Car championship standings by a sizable margin over Matt Hagan. “I am really excited. It feels amazing to do this for our sponsors and I was happy to see that it was able to stick. I saw Robert (Hight) and my dad coming up and obviously (Jack) Beckman had a great run. We still have tomorrow, but it feels good to have a great pass like that tonight here in Sonoma.”

Force earned the provisional top spot with a 3.910-second pass at 326.16 mph in the second session of the day, overcoming a little bit of a hiccup in Q1 that saw Force stuck in the middle of the pack.

“From that pass in Q1 I feel like I let the car drive me a little bit. It started to wiggle and it came loose down at the top end, so obviously I was pointing a finger at myself,” Force said. “I knew that in that second pass, when you have conditions like this, this is usually the time most teams really shine under track conditions like that. That is when you can try to push the car hard and try to go to the top spot.

“I knew that I had to be perfect on that run. I tried to keep the car straight as an arrow and as smooth as possible and Brian Corradi, Dan Hood and my entire Advance Auto Parts team did the rest.”

Jack Beckman fell in line just behind Force with a 3.929 at 324.51 mph, while Bob Tasca was third with a 3.950 at 318.47 mph. Matt Hagan (3.956) and Tim Wilkerson (3.975) round out the top five.

Top driver in session one Cruz Pedregon slipped to eighth at the close of day one at Sonoma Raceway with a 4.032 at 296.70 mph.

If Force’s time holds on Saturday, it will be her 27th career No. 1 as she seeks to extend her championship lead in leg two of the Western Swing.