Three weeks after he was inducted into the Temple of the Texas Motor Sports Hall of Fame, John Force given fans in the State of Lone Star excellent performance Friday as he ran to the No. 1 qualifying position in car Funny Friday at the O'Reilly Auto parts NHRA nationals at Raceway Royal purple spring.
Tony Schumacher (Top Fuel), Ronnie Humphrey (Pro Stock) and the Tonglet (Pro Stock motorcycle) also were qualifying leaders at the event NHRA Full Throttle drag racing series near Houston.Force powered his Castrol high mileage Ford Mustang to a dry 4.097 run 310.27 MPH to drive category. If its performance holds during the last two Saturday sessions, qualifying Force will win his third consecutive No. 1 of the season effort and closer to Pro Stock boost great Warren Johnson all time NHRA record 1 of 138 qualification.
"I drive Pro Stock so I hunt Warren Johnson," said Force with a smile, which has 136 efforts high qualifications in this event. "He is one of my heroes and I like having these recordings out there." "I do what I do in funny car and it is on this subject."
Force, the 15-time NHRA field, more concerned with to make her first victory of the season and moving the point classification Full Throttle.
"I have not had a victory this year, Robert (Hight) won two out of the car Club Mustang and Neff (Mike) has a in the Castrol GTX Mustang, but I am very pleased to be with the young team," said Force. "Ashley (Force Hood) started with these guys a few years." (Co-crew chief) Dean Antonelli was taught by (former team leader) Austin coil and it is the best. It reminds me of much of his thinking as Austin. Teaming up with Ron Douglas they really do the job. It is a young team, but hot rod of my daughter. It (Ashley) always lets me know that. »
Seven times world field Schumacher leads Top Fuel qualifying with a 3,817 at a record speed of 323.81 trail in his drag racing in the US military. His run has deux-centièmes of a second faster than the effort of his best Spencer Massey second teammate of 3.838 to 319.45 in the drag racing Prestone/FRAM.
"It was quite impressive," said Schumacher. "I am really surprised to see how the car has." As I have said for weeks, we had a better car that our numbers showed. »
The term certainly given Schumacher, a winner at Royal purple Raceway on two occasions, and his team of U.S. army led by the team leader Mike Green towards the end of week.
"We have a car that is no longer able to earn a lot of races," said Schumacher. "We need just to run with consistency and we'll be fine."
In his Summit Racing Pontiac GXP, Humphrey has been more rapid in Pro Stock with a 6.571 at 211.16. If its execution is licensed, it would be the first No. 1 in his career, at any level of drag racing.
"I have been around drag racing long and this is my first (lead qualification) in any type of motor sports, so it's a new day of Ronnie Humphrey," said Humphrey, who took top spot under his fastest speed on local favourite Rodger Brogdon of Tomball nearbywhich ran an identical time. "First session of tomorrow should be a faster session, but we'll see what happens." I am happy day number one is completed. We will be ready for a qualification race three rounds. »
Defending Pro Stock motorcycle world field the Tonglet directs the division of two wheels with a time of track-record of 6849 to 195.45 on his Suzuki of Nitro fish.
"We seek to deal in the clutch," Tonglet said, "and it seems that it's coming." We are excited about this subject. The track conditions were not good that you might think, but we were running large numbers there. »
Results Friday:
Top of page - fuel 1 Tony Schumacher, 3.817 seconds, 323.81 mph. 2. Spencer Massey, 3.838, 319.45; 3 Larry Dixon, 3.863, 316.60; 4 Brandon Bernstein, 3.872, 316.15; 5 Antron Brown, 3.873, 315.78; 6 T.J. Zizzo, 3.885, 314.90; 7 Morgan Lucas, 3.897, 315.34; 8 Doug Kalitta, 3.899, 314.53; 9 Terry McMillen, 3.913, 313.58; 10 Bob Vandergriff, 3.922, 300.93; 11 Clay Millican, urban, 312.35; 12 Steve Torrence, 4.017, 273.77. Not qualified: 13. Del Worsham, 4,733, 156.50; 14 Doug Foley, 4.930, 147.36; 15 Scott Palmer, 6.246, 122.16; 16 Shawn Langdon, 6.536, 104.09; 17 David Grubnic, 7.062, 81.22; 18 Troy buff, 7.526, 77.43.Funny - car- 1. John Force, Ford Mustang, 4.097, 310,27; 2 Tim Wilkerson, Mustang, 4.108, 305.49; 3 Mike Neff, Mustang, 4.131, 293,66; 4 Matt Hagan, Dodge load, 4.139, 295.98; 5 Bob Tasca III, Mustang, 4.145, 301.13; 6 Paul Lee, Chevrolet Impala SS, 4.165, 301.13; 7 Jack Beckman, charger, 4.183, 299.86; 8 Jeff Arend, Toyota Solara, 4.203, 297.68; 9 Tony Pedregon, Impala SS, 4.221, 289.69; 10 Cruz Pedregon, Solara, 4.248, 236.88; 11 Jon Capps, Chevrolet Monte Carlo, 262, 286.56; 12 Melanie Troxel, Solara, 4.289, 287.66. Not qualified: 13. Terry haddock, 4.290, 290.19; 14 Brian Thiel, 4.291(1), 290.19; 15 Todd Simpson, 4.402, 273.83; 16 Ron Capps, 5.241, 139.46; 17 Bob Bode, 5.798, 122.09; 18 Jim Head, 5.926, 114.31; 19 Johnny Gray, 6.345, 105.35; 20 Robert Hight, 7.609, 85.39.
Pro Stock- 1 Ronnie Humphrey, Pontiac GXP, 6.571, 211.16; 2 Rodger Brogdon, GXP, 6.571, 210.93; 3 Mike Edwards, GXP, 6.577, 210.67; 4 Line Jason, GXP, 6.579 210.47; 5 Vincent Nobile, Dodge Avenger, 6.584, 211.10; 6 Greg Anderson, GXP, 6.585, 209.95; 7 Allen Johnson, Avenger, 6.591, 211.06; 8 Ron Krisher, GXP, 6.592, 210.54; 9 Greg Stanfield, GXP, 6.597, 209.82; 10. Erica Enders, Chevrolet Cobalt, 6.599, 209.88; 11 Larry Morgan, Ford Mustang, 6.617, 210.21; 12 Kurt Johnson, GXP, 6.619, 209.46. Not qualified: 13. Shane Gray, 6.622, 208.78; 14 Warren Johnson, 6.630, 209.88; 15 Steve Kent, 6.640, 209.20; 16 Mark Buehring, 6.832, 202.61; 17 Dave River, 6.938, 199.94; 18 V. Gaines, 11.375, 78.49.
Pro Stock Motorcycle-- 1. Tonglet, Suzuki, 6849, 195.45; 2 Karen Stoffer, Suzuki, 6.868, 195.39; 3 Andrew Hines, Harley-Davidson, 6.901, 195.99; 4 Hector Arana, Buell, 6.903, 193.82; 5 Michael Phillips, Suzuki, 6.904, 197.39; 6. Gerald Savoie, Suzuki, 6.914, 189.84; 7 Michael Ray, Buell, 6.919, 191.13; 8 Eddie Krawiec, Harley-Davidson, 6.921, 196.33 9 Jim Underdahl, Suzuki, 6.939, 193.27; 10 Shawn Gann, Buell, 6.939, 190.70; 11 Matt Smith, Buell, 6.947, 190.16(1); 12 David Hope, Buell, 6.970, 190.81. Not qualified: 13. Hector Arana Jr, 6.980, 189.26; 14 Angie Smith, 7.005, 190.00; 15 Mike Berry, 7.027, 188.54; 16 Ellis, 7.033, 190.78; Smart 17. Redell Harris, 7.060, 190.16(1); 18 Justin Finley, 7.070, 191.57; 19 GT Tonglet, 7.080, 191.10; 20 Katie Sullivan, 7.088, 186.90; 21 Junior Pippin, 7.090, 190.27. 22 Bailey Whitaker, 7.107, 185.05; 23 Steve Johnson, 7.111, 192.47; 24 James Surber 7.153, 188.94; 25 Dawn Minturn, 7.161, 188.31; 26 Joe DeSantis, 7.254, 184.40.
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