Competition Plus learned there was a disturbance in the pit area involving Cruz Pedregon’s nitro Funny Car team Friday night at Brainerd International Raceway.

Competition Plus learned there was a disturbance in the pit area involving Cruz Pedregon’s nitro Funny Car team Friday night at Brainerd International Raceway.

“It is true,” said Jerry Braam, the Public Safety Director for Brainerd International Raceway. “Basically, we were called by NHRA officials to assist them with an incident between a racing team employee and management from that racing team. We got there. The disturbance was over. The security team for NHRA handled the issue and we were just there for more support if they needed it. I didn’t even get the name of the employee because NHRA was handling it. They just wanted us there in case we needed to assist them. We were called to a disturbance at that trailer (Pedregon’s Snap-on Tools trailer). We got there and (NHRA security) was there already and then I didn’t get involved more than that nor did my team.”

According to Braam, he was called over to the Snap-on Tools trailer around 6 to 6:30 p.m. Central Time Friday.

According to a spokesperson, NHRA is aware of the altercation, but didn’t have a comment and said the sanctioning body is investigating the incident at this time.

Attempts by a Competition Plus reporter to talk to Cruz Pedregon Friday night in his pit area were unsuccessful.

Pedregon’s best run Friday was a 4.626-second effort which left him No. 17 out of 18 on the qualifying ladder. Pedregron came to the Lucas Oil Nationals in Brainerd second in the point standings on the strength of three wins.

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