Funny Car drivers John Force and Jim Campbell got a little more intimate than they’d have preferred during Friday’s second qualifying session at the NHRA Toyota Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, when the two ended up in the same lane inches apart after slowing from their 300-plus mph runs.

Force’s PEAK Chevrolet, well ahead of Campbell at the top end, pushed its way across the centerline, striking the 1,000-foot timing block right in front of Campbell’s Jim Dunn-owned, 7-11 flopper. Force, trying to avoid making matters worse, pulled the car back to the right, unaware that Campbell was on the verge of occupying the same piece of real estate in the shutdown area. The result was a pair of PEAK parachutes right in Campbell’s face, followed by far-too-close of a call as the two jockeyed around one another.

“I was going left and trying to go right,” Force commented after the close-call. “A good driving job by him. We watch out for each other, it just went left on me and I was tugging it trying to get it back and just couldn’t get it there. I saw him go by me so, God bless him.”

In taking out the timing block, Force negated a registered 3.85-second run, at the same disqualifying the run of Campbell, which registered erroneously as a 3.77 but was, as Campbell believed, he and Dunn’s best run of the entire season.

“That was probably our best run of the season,” said Campbell. “It was hauling and stayed right in the middle of the groove and I reached over to slap the parachutes and all of a sudden I saw John come across in front of me. I understand these things are beasts and they get away from you sometimes, and thank God we were both on our game and stuff like that and nothing catastrophic happened. But it sucks because that was definitely our best run.”