Cruz Pedregon gets 1st win of 2011

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    Cruz Pedregon raced to his first win of the season and moved into third in the Funny Car point standings Sunday at the NHRA Fall Nationals.

    Bob Vandergriff, Jason Line and Michael Phillips also won their divisions at Texas Motorplex in the second of six races in the Countdown to the Championship playoffs.

    Pedregon made pass of 4.200 seconds at 302.48 mph to beat Ron Capps in the final. His first win this season and 29th of his career moved Pedregon from fourth to third in the standings, just seven points behind leader Mike Neff.

    "I think this is probably the best race car I've ever had," Pedregon said. "I felt a little more pressure on myself that here we had such a great car that if we don't come out of here with a win, boy, we're really going to be hurting. But it was great to win finally."

    Read more: http://espn.go.com/racing/nhra/stor...on-moves-3rd-place-funny-car-first-win-season
     

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