That proves that qualifying well does pay off." "But last year I won the championship by 16 points so technically, we won the title with the extra points we earned in qualifying. "I like to say that you don't win championships in qualifying, you win them on race days," Schumacher said.
Army dragster is ready for the anticipated race-day conditions. Schumacher didn't improve on his track-record 4.430 at 328.22 mph from Friday, but his 4.457 in Saturday's final session, the hottest round of the weekend, proved his U.S. Tony Pedregon, who also has a shot at the national record if he can back up his 4.659-second run, is second overall in his Q Racing Chevrolet Monte Carlo. I told him Ashley didn't have any trouble with it. John just started using it this weekend and he was complaining it was hard to hold the clutch pedal in. We're all running a new clutch combo that Jimmy (Prock, crew chief) and I tested extensively in the off-season. "He needs to quit waiting until the final session to qualify. "John was really pumped up before that round," Hight said. Force's daughter Ashley will start sixth after clocking a career-best 4.730-second run in her Castrol GTX Ford Mustang. Force has now qualified for 394 consecutive events, while Kalitta has reached 162 straight race days.įorce's son-in-law Hight has yet to back up his 4.636 at 327.74 mph from Friday evening to make it an official NHRA national record for his Auto Club Ford Mustang, but it's still the quickest run ever recorded in the Funny Car class and earned him his 16th career top qualifier award. Force powered his Castrol GTX High-Mileage Ford Mustang to a 4.818 and Kalitta posted a 4.547 in his Mac Tools dragster.
With their class-leading qualifying streaks hanging in the balance, both drivers managed to make the starting lineups in their respective categories during the final session. Saturday's drama came in the form of last-ditch qualifying efforts by John Force and Doug Kalitta.
(MT), with television coverage on ESPN2 at 7 p.m. 1 qualifying honors at the Checker Schuck's Kragen NHRA Nationals presented by Castrol, the second of23 events in the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series Countdown to the Championship. Robert Hight and Jason Line also earned No. 1 qualifying position Saturday after covering Firebird International Raceway's quarter-mile dragstrip in a track record time of 4.430 seconds - the fourth quickest run in NHRA history. Four-time Top Fuel champion Tony Schumacher raced to his 37th career No. 1 QUALIFYING POSITIONS AT CHECKER SCHUCK'S KRAGEN NHRA NATIONALSĬHANDLER, Ariz.
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