Frankie Taylor saved his best run of the day for last under the cooling temperatures of Friday night during the ADRL Independence Drags in Topeka, Ks.

Taylor roared his way to a 3.701-second time at 202.58 mph to vault to the top of the Pro Extreme qualifying ladder.

Frankie Taylor saved his best run of the day for last under the cooling temperatures of Friday night during the ADRL Independence Drags in Topeka, Ks.

Taylor roared his way to a 3.701-second time at 202.58 mph to vault to the top of the Pro Extreme qualifying ladder.

“That was a pretty good run,” Taylor said. “We were shooting for a 68, but a 70 wasn’t too bad. “The track conditions out there were a little iffy, so to run that elapsed time on that track was pretty stout. We actually tried to get after it pretty hard in the second round and it didn’t hold it, so we just backed it down on the starting line, and she went down the track.”

Taylor’s run knocked Joshua Hernandez off the provisional pole. Hernandez ran a 3.733-second time at 201.34 mph in the second round of qualifying.

“If we can go 70 to 73 every lap (Saturday), and if we get beat we get beat and if we do not, maybe we can win this thing,” Taylor said.