This is 12 hours of Alexia DeJoria’s drag racing life she would like to erase.

In Saturday night’s final qualifying session at the 2016 Mile-High Nationals, DeJoria made a career-best run at Bandimere Speedway, stopping the clock at 3.975 seconds at 318.69 mph.

That was the good news. The bad news was DeJoria couldn’t get her Tequila Patron Toyota Camry stopped in the shutdown area. One her parachutes came out, but the other one didn’t and she kept going up the hill until her Funny Car came to a stop in the sand/gravel before it reached the safety nets.

Fortunately for DeJoria her Kalitta Motorsports crew was able to get her Funny Car ready for eliminations.

“They were until 3 in the morning,” DeJoria said. “It was going to be a late night no matter what, but that was unfortunate that we had to add a little bit more to it. It’s just one of those things that happens. It was a chain of bad events. I got the front end hopping a bunch down at the top end, got crossed up and when I did get to the chutes one of my parachutes wrapped up underneath the car so that didn’t help any, and when you are out her racing on the mountain your parachutes don’t blossom as hard either. Everything that could’ve happened to get me in the sand happened. I didn’t bounce, I went in there straight, so it was minimal damage and the body needs to be fixed. We just had to blow off all the kitty litter (on the chassis). It sucks I haven’t been there in a while, but I been there before so I knew what to do.

“It’s a little early in the game to be using up one of our bodies, but we do have an extra one back in Michigan and they’re going to get some guys to bring it out and we will have it by Friday in Sonoma.”

The Toyota Sonoma Nationals take place July 29-31.

DeJoria was running her back-up body in first round and she lost to John Hale. Both DeJoria and Hale’s Funny Cars had their motors quit at the same time and Hale coasted past DeJoria to the finish line.

Hale clocked a 4.303-second run at 240.64 mph. DeJoria came in at 4.324 seconds at 232.71 mph.