If Salinas can beat Tripp Tatum in the second round, he will pass her for the No. Low qualifier Mike Salinas advanced past Steve Chrisman and will set his sights now on passing Force for second place in the standings. As it turned out, the championship would have been his anyway as Force smoked the tires tires against Torrence's father, Billy, in the last pair of the round. Second-place Brittany Force's only hopes were a loss by Torrence and to win the race, but she never got to fire a shot in her own defense. The championship drama lasted only four airs into the first round as Steve Torrence defeated Brandon Welch to clinch his fourth straight championship. It’s just the second win of Ferre’s Top Fuel career. 25: FOX Sports 1 (FS1) will televise three hours of finals coverage at 2 p.m.NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series Top Fuel championship contenders Steve Torrence and Brittany Force shared their thoughts about the championship battle ahead during pre-re ceremonies on Championship Sunday.Ĭameron Ferre pulled off the day’s first upset, beating Leah Pruett in their first-round race and running a career-best 3.796 in the EMPI/Paton racing dragster after Pruett’s Direct Connection entry dropped cylinders a few hundred feet into the run. 25: FOX Sports 1 (FS1), will televise one and half hours of qualifying coverage at 11 a.m. 23: FOX Sports 1 (FS1), will televise one and half hours of qualifying coverage at 9:30 a.m. 24 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series eliminations begin at 11 a.m. 23 Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series eliminations continue NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series qualifying at 1 and 4 p.m. Pro Stock Motorcycle - 6.710 seconds by Gaige Herrera, April ‘23 203.49 mph by Eddie Krawiec, May ‘21. Pro Stock - 6.455 seconds by Jason Line, Mar. Funny Car - 3.825 seconds by Matt Hagan, Sept.'23 335.57 mph by Capps, April '23. Top Fuel - 3.651 seconds by Brittany Force, April '23 336.91 mph by B. MOST EVENT VICTORIESĪntron Brown, 4, TF Robert Hight, 4, FC Jason Line, 3 PS Andrew Hines, 5, PSM. Pep Boys NHRA Nationals Top Fuel winner Doug Kalitta, who ran four straight 3.6-second elapsed times to win that race, ran a fifth straight in Friday’s lone session and his 3.665 was two-hundredths ahead of world champ Brittany Force at the front of a very quick field.Įrica Enders, who has been on a qualifying rampage of late since her Elite team tuned the gremlins from her JHG Camaro at midseason, fronts the Prig Stock field after one session as she continued her blitz of good elapsed times from last weekend’s Pep Boys NHRA Nationals 2022 EVENT WINNERSĪntron Brown, Top Fuel Ron Capps, Funny Car Aaron Stanfield, Pro Stock. With two runs today planned under what should be cool conditions, neither of those runs in guaranteed to stay No. Teams went into the night thinking that their runs of what is obviously a very quick and fast dragstrip might be limited by a weather delay, but, other than losing the morning Sportsman action, t looks like a good bet that the two scheduled Camping World Drag Racing Series will take place.įriday’s heroes were Matt Hagan in Funny Car and Gaige Herrera in Pro Stock Motorcycle as both led their fields handily, Hagan with a Funny Car-leading, track-record3.825 that was exactly six-hundredths quicker than world champ Ron Capps’ second-place 3.885 while Herrera’s shocking 6.731 - on a less-than-perfect pass - was more than eight-hundredths quicker than No. Light morning rain delayed the start of Saturday’s action at zMAX Dragway by three hours, but it’s a much better scenario than the overnight forecasts that had predicted that the second day of the Betway NHRA Carolina Nationals might be delayed until early afternoon.
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