Harlequins and England scrum-half Danny Care will be out of action for eight weeks after suffering an ankle injury in training which needs surgery.

The 32-year-old will miss the club's early season cup fixtures and the start of the new Premiership campaign.

"We are disappointed to lose 'DC' for this period," said Quins head of rugby Paul Gustard. "He's a real talisman in our attack."

Meanwhile, hooker Elia Elia (hamstring) is out for six to eight weeks.

The Samoa international, who joined the club in 2016, hopes to return early in the new Premiership season, which Quins begin with a trip to Exeter on 19 October.

Care, who won the most recent of his 84 England caps against Japan last November, will undergo surgery in the next few days. His recovery will then be supervised by the club's medical department.

"Although we won't be able to utilise Danny's talents on the field, we will be able to lean heavily on his experience and character off the field in different capacities to ensure he still has a full role to play in the start of our campaign," said Gustard.

"The club will support 'DC' through his rehabilitation, and I am confident he will return faster than predicted and in excellent shape."

ALGER, Wash. — Logan Schuchart always wanted to match his grandfather Bobby Allen’s win total in a single World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series season.

He finally did it Friday night at Skagit Speedway, picking up his fifth victory of the season for the Shark Racing team.

“Having my grandfather by my side since the beginning, he’s the main part of why this team is where it is, and really everyone together, but he’s the boss, the man in charge,” Schuchart said. “The most Outlaw wins he had in a year was five, so that was my main goal at the beginning of the year to at least get that. It’s pretty cool to do that with him and the rest of our team.”

Kraig Kinser won the dash with Schuchart finishing second, giving the pair the front row for the 30-lap feature.

Schuchart stayed side by side with Kinser into the first turn and powered into the lead as the pair headed down the backstretch.

Schuchart pulled away by several car lengths, but a caution two laps into the race brought Kinser back to his tail tank. On the restart the Pennsylvanian picked up where he left off. He rocketed in front of Kinser by almost two car lengths before entering turn one and then ran away with the lead.

Kinser said he couldn’t hang with Schuchart in traffic.

Schuchart caught the back of the field by lap six of the three-tenths-mile track, but the slower cars didn’t hinder his performance. He maneuvered around them with ease, never losing his quick pace. However, in the closing laps, Schuchart said he felt like he fell off a little bit.

“For the first half, three-quarters of the race I could run up on any car that is in front of me and run a different line and go right by them,” Schuchart said. “There at the end I caught up to Shane (Stewart), but I wasn’t gaining anymore. It’s hard to tell how close Kraig is. You’re just running your own race at that point.”

At the end of the 28- lap run to the finish, Schuchart crossed the finish line with a 4.6-second lead over Kinser.

“I’ve wanted to win here for a couple of years now, since we’ve been coming here,” Schuchart said.

While Schuchart celebrated breaking his streak of second-place finishes, Kinser was celebrating his runner-up finish. It was his fourth top-five of the year and first podium finish of the year, too.

“Struggled a little bit the last couple of weeks, but this feels pretty good,” Kinser said. “Obviously would’ve liked to have gotten the win, but just the way it goes. I’m happy we had a quick car from the time we unloaded to the checkered flag.”

Rounding out the podium was former full-time World of Outlaws driver a Jason Solwold.

“We definitely came out of the box good,” Soldwold said. “Third quick and third in the main event there, not too bad.”

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Ten clubs find themselves with one win, one draw and one loss after three games, making the 2019-20 Premier League picture as clear as mud. Nick Miller tries to make sense of the madness ahead of matchday four.

Jump to: The folly of Man United's summer | Spotlight on Gracia | Bruce still fighting Rafa's ghost | Time for the Toffees to unleash Kean

Who will cut through the chaos in north London?

The north London derby arrives this Sunday with two teams in differing sorts of chaos and flux.

Arsenal have begun the season in reasonable fashion but are still figuring out what they are, still unpicking the problems left by the last, neglectful days of Arsene Wenger's reign, a team with a promising attack and an unpredictable defence but one that is arguably on the upswing.

For Tottenham, is this the beginning of the end of the Mauricio Pochettino glory days? Maybe. Logically speaking, it shouldn't be a surprise, the only surprise being those glory days have lasted this long. They have looked tired and bereft of ideas in their last three fixtures, which is troubling considering these are the opening few weeks of the season.

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Pochettino said after their defeat to Newcastle last weekend that his squad were "unsettled," with doubts over the futures of Jan Vertonghen and Christian Eriksen, among others, which could explain a few things.

In some respects, it might be a relief for them both that they are playing each other this weekend. For a day they can forget the weighty business of wider context, of where both clubs are headed, and instead just concentrate on the frantic, self-contained world of the derby.

Then again, it might be impossible to do that, so the question then becomes: Who will best be able to cope with the uncertainty around their clubs to win this game?

The folly of Man United's summer becomes clear

The sight of Anthony Martial limping around the Old Trafford pitch last weekend was alarming for Manchester United fans, but also inevitable. Of course he's going to suffer an injury at some point, an injury which lays bare the paucity of resources available to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, and by extension the strangeness of their summer transfer business.

The departures of Romelu Lukaku and Alexis Sanchez without signing a replacement have left United with a pretty bare cupboard when it comes to strikers, with Martial and Marcus Rashford their only two senior options through the middle. Next on the list is Mason Greenwood, still only 17 and very promising, but not at the stage of his career when a club like Manchester United should be relying upon him.

United had better hope that Martial is miraculously fit for this weekend's trip to Southampton, or else the mistakes they have made will be laid out for all to see, in glorious technicolour.

Could this be it for Gracia?

Watford, as you will know, are not shy about sacking managers. The Pozzo family -- the club's owners -- have got through nine of them in seven years at Vicarage Road, so maybe the big surprise is arguably that Javi Gracia has lasted this long; never mind their solid league form last season and reaching the FA Cup final.

But the Pozzos do not just sack for the sake of it. They're decisive and ruthless when they think a problem is more trouble than it's worth, which is probably why reports have been circulating that Gracia's position is in danger. Watford have lost their first three games of the season, as well as losing the last three of last season, and since around November last year have basically been in little better than relegation form.

It may seem harsh to the outside world, but this is how Watford have operated for the last few years. If Watford lose at Newcastle on Saturday, it might be enough for them to conclude Gracia is not the man to stop the rot, and make a change.

Bruce needs another win to convince the Newcastle crowd

In the other dugout at St James's Park will be another man with a point to prove. The extent to which Steve Bruce is disliked among the Newcastle fans is probably overstated: They will give their new manager a chance of course, but they will need to be convinced pretty quickly that he is a worthy successor to Rafa Benitez.

Of course, the only way he will do that is with more victories to follow the excellent 1-0 win at Tottenham last weekend, but it will be interesting to see how they play at home against a struggling side, as opposed to at a team expected to make all the running. Being the underdog and winning is one thing, but setting a side up to play on the front foot and be the protagonists on the pitch is another entirely.

If Bruce can pull this off too, he'll go a long way to convincing the faithful that he's their man. But the midweek defeat at home to Leicester in the Carabao Cup hasn't helped his cause, and they need to bounce back.

Will Kean start for Everton?

It has been an indifferent start to the season for Everton. They have a win, a draw and a defeat to their name, but haven't been convincing in any of those three games and what's more, they haven't been scoring goals. They have just one from 270 minutes of football so far, Bernard's winner against Watford in their second game.

The good news for Marco Silva is it's not as if his team aren't creating chances: They've taken 34 shots so far, placing them in the middle of the Premier League's chance creators. It's good news because that statistic suggests they're creating chances but not converting them, a slightly easier structural problem to solve than if they weren't carving out those opportunities.

With that in mind, you would think Moise Kean has a great chance of starting an Everton game for the first time, against Wolves on Saturday. The Italian has shown flashes of encouraging play during his three substitute appearances so far, and with Dominic Calvert-Lewin having not scored since March, surely the time is right to see what Kean can do against Premier League defences.

Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladesh's Test and T20I captain, has made it clear that he is not "mentally prepared" or ready or interested in continuing to lead the team in any format, and would rather focus on his own game to be of greater value to the cause. He wants the younger crop of players be given more responsibility over the next four-year cycle, but understands that the team needs him to lead in what is a tricky phase.

"I am not even mentally prepared to lead in Tests and T20s," Shakib told the daily Prothom Alo. "But the team is not in a good shape, so I understand that I have to lead to get it back on track. Otherwise, I am not really interested in leading in any format. I can focus on myself if I am not captaining, which would help the team.

"I want to see the younger lot to take responsibility. We [Mushfiqur Rahim and he, in the main] got captaincy at a very young age, but they [the next bunch] have now turned 26-27. Unless you give them responsibility, you won't know what they can do. The World Test Championship and T20 World Cup are up ahead, so we should plan for the next four years."

The current captaincy stint is Shakib's second in a full-time capacity in Tests and T20Is. He became captain of T20Is when Mashrafe Mortaza retired from the format in April 2017, and got the Test captaincy after the sacking of Mushfiqur Rahim in December that year.

Shakib's public expression of disinterest in the role - a first in his 13-year-long international career - stems from his earliest experiences as Bangladesh captain. After deputising for an injured Mashrafe from mid-2009, he was made the permanent captain in 2011, but eight months later, he lost his job in the aftermath of a drab World Cup campaign. He, however, has since been the most consistent performer in the team, and enjoyed a dream run in the World Cup earlier this year. His consistency, not to mention his seniority, also puts him in line for the ODI captaincy once Mashrafe retires.

Shakib pointed out that a captain, by default, is expected to perform consistently himself, so he doesn't get too bogged down. He cited Mashrafe's example from this year's World Cup, where the captain took just one wicket in the eight matches Bangladesh played.

"I had the belief that we could go further in this World Cup, and it may have been possible if we had contributions from everyone," Shakib said. "When a player doesn't perform, he thinks more about himself than the team, which creates the problem. I think it happened in Mashrafe bhai's case.

"It was a big issue, for himself and the team, that the captain wasn't performing. The captain has to perform, but we were behind in that aspect. It wasn't impossible [to reach the semi-finals]; we made a good start to the World Cup, but we couldn't hold on to it."

Bangladesh's - and Shakib's - next assignment is a one-off Test in Chattogram against Afghanistan starting September 5, followed by a T20I tri-series against Afghanistan and Zimbabwe.

BONHAM, Texas -- Former Baylor coach Art Briles, who was fired by the school in 2016 in the wake of a sexual assault scandal, made his return to the high school sidelines in Texas on Friday, saying, "I just want to coach football."

It was Briles' first game coaching in the United States since his firing more than three years ago. His Mount Vernon (Texas) High team defeated Bonham High 44-16.

Briles, 63, said he hasn't paid attention to criticism over his return to coaching football stateside.

"You know, honestly, I haven't looked or noticed," said Briles, who coached the Guelfi Firenze American football team in Florence, Italy, for one season before accepting the Mount Vernon job in May. "Y'all don't wanna believe it, but I just like to coach football. That's all I pay attention to, and that's all I've ever done. People can think and say whatever they want to think and say. I have no control over that."

Friday night marked Briles' first time coaching at the high school level since 1999. He coached high school football in Texas for 20 years before entering the college ranks as an assistant at Texas Tech, including an 11-year run at Stephenville (Texas) High that included four state championships.

Though Bonham ISD administrators prepared for unusual circumstances with much attention around Briles, it was a mostly normal Friday night high school football game. There were no protesters. Signs weren't allowed, but administrators said nobody attempted to bring one. The estimated crowd of 4,000 came and went without incident.

The primary differences were the presence of numerous media outlets and extra security. Briles had an officer escort him to and from the locker room, and Bonham ISD set up small metal barricades to allow the team to get to and from the field without incident.

District administrators had an earlier call time for the game and opened up the gates earlier than normal, but otherwise, there was nothing out of the ordinary. Briles stopped and shook hands with numerous people as he went to and from the field pregame and postgame.

Besides the extra reporters, Bonham ISD athletic director Ryan Brock said, "It was a normal Friday night."

Briles, who accepted the job at Mount Vernon on Memorial Day weekend but didn't arrive in town until a week before August training camp started, said he had a lot of emotions and was grateful for the chance to return.

"You know, I've got so many [emotions]," he said. "A lot of mine are personal, and nothing to do with anything that's happened other than through my father, because he coached all his life and he never got to see me coach, never got to see me get married, never got to be around me. That's the emotion I go with, because I want to share that with other people. I want them to understand how precious each day is and how you should always be grateful if you're given an opportunity.

"I've been given an opportunity at Mount Vernon High School in Mount Vernon, Texas, because of some people that believe in me, so I'm extremely grateful and thankful for them."

Thanks to the intriguing matchup between No. 11 Oregon and No. 16 Auburn on Saturday (7:30 p.m. ET on ABC) -- the only Week 1 game featuring two AP-ranked opponents -- there is already lofty significance to this weekend in college football.

And we're not even talking about the playoff.

It starts with the perception of the Pac-12, which has faced heightened criticism after missing the College Football Playoff and finishing below .500 in bowl games each of the past two seasons. After producing a three-loss conference champion last fall, the league could desperately use an Oregon victory to help change the negative narrative. Stanford will also have a chance to give the league a boost Saturday if it can beat Northwestern, last season's Big Ten West champion, but Oregon will have the biggest opportunity and appears to be in the best position, returning a league-high 10 starters, including Heisman hopeful quarterback Justin Herbert.

There's also the questionable future of Auburn coach Gus Malzahn, who has seemingly appeared on every hot-seat list this preseason in spite of a $49 million contract and what's currently a top-10 recruiting class. Auburn has stared down this situation before -- opening last season against a ranked Pac-12 team -- but the Tigers failed to build upon the 21-16 victory over No. 6 Washington in Atlanta and stumbled to an 8-5 finish.

Hence the hot seat, and while a loss to Oregon won't get Malzahn fired, the rest of the schedule certainly could. Auburn plays at Florida and against Georgia in its SEC crossover games, and doesn't have any home games in October. A win against a ranked Ducks team should position the Tigers for a 3-0 start, which would be invaluable heading into the Sept. 21 trip to Texas A&M.

Malzahn knows all this, but said he isn't consumed by it.

"If you take a job like Auburn, where we expect to win championships, you know what you're getting into," Malzahn said. "You've got to do your job and understand that it's a blessing to have a job like this. This is a place you can win championships. This will be my 10th year here. We've played for two national championships, three SEC championships and won two of those. That's just part of the job description."

The Pac-12 is already playing from behind after tripping over itself with an 0-1 start. Arizona's experienced defense gave up 45 points and just shy of 600 yards in a 45-38 loss to Hawaii last Saturday. It sounds like an afterthought to the wild, messy game between Florida and Miami, but it was another nonconference blemish for a league that has an embarrassing 4-13 record in bowl games over the past two seasons.

Ducks coach Mario Cristobal, who is entering his second season, said his program is "improving at a pretty rapid clip," but that Oregon isn't the only one in the league trending up.

"I think a two-year absence from the College Football Playoff doesn't necessarily make or break a conference," Cristobal said. "That's noise out there. Playing well and having a team or two make it to the playoff would maybe silence some of those critics, but the focus has to be strictly on the betterment of each and every program. The recruiting classes, and the coaching influx of the Pac-12 in the past few years has been really impressive. We expect the conference to get better and better and compete for championships."

The Ducks will have a chance to showcase it Saturday, and at least one selection committee member will be there ...

Film festival: All 13 members of the CFP selection committee have been issued their iPads, and by Sunday morning will be able to view the cut-ups of every game. Committee chairman Rob Mullens will be in Arlington, Texas, as the Ducks' athletic director, and while he is recused from voting on Oregon when the committee meets in November, it's a chance for him to see Auburn live.

"When we get to Dallas and we put the full résumés on there, we're going to be looking at somewhere between eight and nine games for every team," Mullens said. "The committee commits a lot of hours, beginning in Week 0. I will assure you every committee member watched the games from last week, and that will continue on until we meet in person."

Florida athletic director Scott Stricklin is also on the selection committee, and he saw the Gators hand the ACC its first loss. The ACC can have an epic rebound, though it might be asking a little much ...

A different Longhorn "network": It's a reunion for former Texas coach Mack Brown and former Texas head-coach-in-waiting Will Muschamp, who will face each other Saturday in Charlotte, North Carolina (3:30 p.m. ET Saturday on ESPN), when Brown begins his second stint as North Carolina head coach in the opener against Muschamp's South Carolina Gamecocks. "He did a tremendous job for us there," Brown said. "We had a chance to win the national championship while he was there. That's why we gave him that title. We thought we wanted to keep him, and a lot of people were coming after him. He's smart, he's tough, he's aggressive. He did a tremendous job for us." Now Brown has to beat him with a true freshman quarterback, Sam Howell.

"We are going down there to win a football game," but Duke coach David Cutcliffe knows how difficult it will be to beat Alabama in Atlanta (3:30 p.m. ET Saturday on ABC) -- he's a Bama grad (class of 1976), and called the Crimson Tide "the most talented team top to bottom in the country." Still, Cutcliffe said his program has "earned this type of opportunity," the recruiting has been on the rise, and his team is fast and offensively diverse. Will that show against the No. 2 team in the country? Or will this look like another lopsided victory against a weaker nonconference opponent?

This ain't App State-Michigan ... First-year Louisville coach Scott Satterfield was an assistant coach at Appalachian State in 2007, when the Mountaineers sprang one of the most memorable upsets in the history of the sport. He was asked this week if there's anything he can take from it and apply it to the preparation for No. 9 Notre Dame (8 p.m. ET Monday on ESPN). Uh, no. "The fact that we're a big underdog and playing a well-known team that's coming in here, I think that's the correlation," he said, "and it might stop right there." Notre Dame should hope it does.

The SEC is already 1-0 thanks to Florida, but the Beast of the East is ... not Vandy. The Commodores are 0-54 against top-5 opponents, the most losses without a victory in AP poll history (since 1936). And here comes No. 3 Georgia (7:30 p.m. ET Saturday on SEC Network). The Bulldogs have won 13 consecutive SEC East games, the longest such winning streak since the SEC split into divisions in 1992. Can they do it again? QB Jake Fromm is back, but his top five receivers are not.

Back in the Big 12: First-year Houston coach Dana Holgorsen is picking up right where he left off in the 2018 regular season -- in what should be another thriller against No. 4 Oklahoma (7:30 p.m. ET Sunday on ABC). In his final season as coach at West Virginia, Holgorsen lost 59-56 to the Sooners. Now he has a very talented Cougars team that should push the Sooners to the brink. While much of the attention will be on the Oklahoma debut of quarterback Jalen Hurts, Houston's D'Eriq King is pretty special, too. Houston has won its past three games against AP top-5 teams, with one of those victories coming against Oklahoma in 2016.

Houston Rockets guard Eric Gordon has agreed to a three-year, $54.5 million contract extension that will take him through the 2022-23 season, league sources told ESPN on Friday night.

Gordon's deal -- which starts with the 2020-21 season -- includes a $20.9 million season in 2023-24 that would become guaranteed if Gordon makes an All-Star team or if the Rockets win an NBA championship during the course of the deal, league sources said.

The Houston Chronicle first reported an extension had been reached.

Gordon, 30, was entering the final year of his contract in 2019-20, which is worth $14 million.

Gordon has averaged nearly 17 points in his three seasons with the Rockets, including an NBA Sixth Man of the Year award.

Gordon is part of a nucleus that includes James Harden, Russell Westbrook and Clint Capela that's expected to compete with the elite in the Western Conference.

DARLINGTON, S.C. – One of the more iconic throwback paint schemes in this year’s NASCAR Xfinity Series field came courtesy of a driver who didn’t necessarily expect to be running the livery at Darlington Raceway.

Joe Gibbs Racing’s Brandon Jones rolled out a Gray Ghost-themed No. 19 Mojo Outdoor/iK9 Toyota Supra for practice on Friday at the 1.366-mile, egg-shaped oval, paying homage to the late Buddy Baker’s 1980 Daytona 500-winning Oldsmobile that terrorized the competition during that time.

Baker drove that machine for Ranier Racing, while Jones is in his second season with JGR in the Xfinity Series. Sponsor iK9 actually brought the idea to run Baker’s Gray Ghost throwback to driver and team.

“Man, this thing looks pretty cool,” Jones told SPEED SPORT. “I didn’t question it at all whenever they (the iK9 representatives) mentioned that (as a throwback). We had a few ideas, but that was the one they liked. … Going back and looking at some of the cars of the past, not many of them had a name, you know? There were very few that gained a name and a reputation like that Gray Ghost of Buddy’s did. It’s a pretty cool, iconic car that we get to race in honor of Buddy and I’m excited to be able to do that here this weekend.”

A fairly-avid history buff when it comes to auto racing, Jones couldn’t hold back a grin when asked what Darlington means to him as a younger driver.

“I’m a guy who loves Westerns and I love back in the day, old timey stuff,” he said. “So it’s cool to see the throwback stuff and how into it the fans get. You know, I love the big trucker hats everybody shows up with, and it honestly educates me as a younger driver. I didn’t grow up in this era, so I’ve had to kind of go back and research some of these cars … and I’ve actually started finding out a bunch of stuff.

“This type of thing does push you towards that a little bit, and it’s sometimes pretty cool to find out some stuff that maybe you didn’t know or didn’t realize before. But this place is special, no doubt.”

Jones was a disappointing 16th in the opening hour of practice on Friday, but rose up the order to eighth in final practice and picked up a tenth of a second in the process, despite a track-temperature increase.

“Gray Ghost was not too bad on the track this afternoon, even though we did a few more laps than we wanted to (in) that first practice,” Jones noted. “You know, there’s only so much you can learn on a set of tires here; it obviously chews them up really bad. It gets really slick, and we had really hot temperatures today as well, which was pretty difficult to grasp the handle of the track during.

“I’m looking forward to the weekend, though,” he continued. “This is always a tough track that we come to on the schedule, but one that’s way different and fun as well. I enjoy racing here.”

Though he started to get things clicking with his team, Jones admitted that Saturday’s Sport Clips Haircuts/VFW 200 will pose plenty of unknowns, and he isn’t sure just yet what the key to victory will be.

“Darlington … it’s a weird track,” said Jones. “I mentioned that it tears tires up so much, but at the same time, you don’t want to give up any track position and you really want to have to run the tires off of it every stage and chance that you get. It’s a fine line between success and failure. You know, you go out there and you look like Superman for a while and then, there comes somebody that passes you who saved their tires some.”

So who has Jones leaned on to figure things out as he chases his first Darlington victory?

“I’ve been watching Kevin Harvick’s onboard (footage) some from last year,” he tipped. “I think that was a help. We’ll see how much I learned when it comes down to race time, but I think we’ll be in the mix.”

If he is, his throwback paint scheme might just evoke memories of the old days that Jones is so fond of, when Baker would stealthily sneak up on the competition thanks to a car that was said to blend into the asphalt at full speed.

“Hopefully they won’t see us coming and we can take a trophy back home with us,” Jones smiled.

Jones’ Gray Ghost throwback is not the first car in recent years that has nodded to Baker’s iconic color scheme.

After Dale Earnhardt Jr. was forced to sit out the second half of the 2016 season with a concussion, Jeff Gordon drove Earnhardt’s Baker-inspired No. 88 Chevrolet during Darlington’s throwback weekend on Labor Day weekend in 2016.

Earnhardt then brought the livery back in October of 2017 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway.

INDIANAPOLIS – Brittany Force powered her way to the provisional No. 1 spot in Top Fuel on Friday during the 65th annual Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis.

Jack Beckman (Funny Car), Jason Line (Pro Stock) and Andrew Hines (Pro Stock Motorcycle) are also provisional No. 1 qualifiers in their respective categories at the final regular-season race of the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season.

Force, who is seeking her first Indy win, ran 3.670 seconds at 327.27 mph in her Advance Auto Parts dragster to take the top spot. If the run, which was just off the track record at Indy, holds, it would give Force her sixth No. 1 qualifier of 2019 and 16th in her career. Defending world champion and points leader Steve Torrence was the only other driver to reach the 3.60 second bracket, going 3.688 seconds at 323.81 mph to sit second. His father, Billy, is third as he tries to break into the top 10 this weekend.

“It definitely felt fast,” Force said. “We went right down the track and put an awesome number on the board. It was a pretty awesome run, but the next two days are going to be the important ones setting us up for Monday. We’re really looking for consistency because that’s where we’ve been struggling, so this is a good start to the weekend and we’re very happy with that. I want to win here. I’ve been coming here since I was a baby and it’s on my bucket list.”

Funny Car’s Beckman, who is after his first win of the year, drove his Infinite Hero Foundation Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat to an impressive 3.875-second pass at 328.46 mph. It would give Beckman, the 2015 Indy winner, his first No. 1 qualifier this year and 25th in his career if it holds.

His Don Schumacher Racing teammate Ron Capps, who won the most recent race in Brainerd, is second, while J.R. Todd, the defending and back-to-back Indy winner, sits third.

In Pro Stock, Line went 6.570 seconds at 209.62 mph to take the No. 1 spot in his Summit Racing Equipment Chevrolet Camaro. Line, who won the most recent event in Brainerd, is aiming for his second-straight and third overall top qualifier of the season, and 56th in his career. Erica Enders, the runner-up at Brainerd, is second after Friday, while points leader Bo Butner is third.

Pro Stock Motorcycle points leader Hines raced to the top spot on his Screamin’ Eagle Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson, going 6.864 seconds at 194.63 mph. It would give Hines, a seven-time winner this year, his third No. 1 qualifier of the season and 45th in his career. Defending world champion Matt Smith is currently second and Jerry Savoie sits third.

In the E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by J&A Service, three-time world champ Rickie Smith took the top spot on Friday with a run of 5.746 seconds at 251.95 mph in his Camaro.