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| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:47 pm Post subject: NHRA News and Notes |
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Post any drag news here
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ACDelco NHRA Gatornationals
Gainesville, Fla.
3/16/2008 Qualifying
1:00:00 AM-3:00:00 AM (ET) ESPN2
3/16/2008 Eliminations
6:00:00 PM-9:00:00 PM (ET) ESPN2
3/19/2008 Repeat Eliminations
2:00:00 AM-4:00:00 AM (ET) ESPN2
Next NHRA Race Day show:
3/16/2008 11:00:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM (ET) (ESPN2)
Next NHRA on ESPN Classic show:
3/4/2008 11:00:00 AM - 12:00:00 PM (ET) (ESPN Classic)
Next Sportsman Event show:
ACDelco NHRA Gatornationals
Gainesville, Fla.
3/22/2008 Sportsman
10:00:00 AM-11:00:00 AM (ET) ESPN2
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I'll be more than happy to post NHRA stuff here if folks are interested. I can report on the pros, as well as sportsman catagories. Any bracket racers out there? I race a sweet 1976 Camaro that runs mid 11's at 118.
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The big boys are at Gainesville this weekend. I'll post qualifying and elimination runs as they become available.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 7:19 am Post subject: Event Champs Set To Defend Gatornationals Titles |
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After an opening day of Sportsman time trials at Gainesville Raceway Thursday, the ACDelco NHRA Gatornationals, race three of the 2008 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing, kicks into high gear today with the first two of four Professional qualifying sessions, slated for noon and 2:30 p.m. The event also marks the season debut of the six-second, 190-mph Pro Stock Motorcycles and their first of 17 events on the schedule.
Reigning NHRA POWERade Top Fuel champ Tony Schumacher is a two-time and defending Gatornationals champ who’ll be gunning for a second straight and third overall crown at one of NHRA’s most prestigious events. Ron Capps (Funny Car), Greg Anderson (Pro Stock), and Karen Stoffer (Pro Stock Motorcycle) will also begin to attempt to defend their 2007 race crowns when qualifying kicks off. |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:13 pm Post subject: Rain Spoiled Friday's Time Runs. |
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A steady rain Friday claimed the opening day of qualifying at the ACDelco NHRA Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway, race three of the 2008 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series. Racing will resume Saturday with a much better forecast. Fans can retain their ticket stub(s) to use toward ticket purchase for Saturday or Sunday or use them toward ticket purchase for next year's event.
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rain suppose to stop tonight sometime, been a good rain at least, we needed it down here
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. - SUMMIT FastNews - Final order after 2 rounds of qualifying in Top Fuel at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 39th annual ACDelco NHRA Gatornationals:
Psn Driver Vehicle ET Speed
1. Alan Bradshaw Vis Viva Living Force Dragster 4.547 306.95
2. David Grubnic Technicoat Dragster 4.555 327.59
3. Rod Fuller Caterpillar Dragster 4.555 326.71
4. Antron Brown Matco Dragster 4.558 327.51
5. Tony Schumacher U.S. Army Dragster 4.579 326.56
6. Cory McClenathan Fram Dragster 4.581 327.59
7. Brandon Bernstein Budweiser Dragster 4.586 330.63
8. Larry Dixon U.S. Smokeless Dragster 4.612 317.87
9. Doug Herbert Snap-On Tools Dragster 4.620 318.09
10. Clay Millican Knoll Gas/SinFuel Choppers 4.624 325.77
11. Hillary Will KB Racing Dragster 4.624 314.75
12. J.R. Todd Torco/Lucas Dragster 4.659 318.99
13. Doug Foley FXCaprara Kia Dragster 4.676 325.85
14. Urs Erbacher Midland Oil Dragster 4.678 316.08
15. Michael Gunderson Under The Gun Dragster 4.743 316.01
16. Bruce Litton Lucas Oil/Stoops Dragster 4.755 309.84
--------- Not Qualified ---------
17. Morgan Lucas Lucas Oil/Torco Racing Fuels D 4.762 313.15
18. Mitch King LaKings/Modern Outlaw Dragster 4.802 302.82
19. Doug Kalitta MAC Tools Dragster 4.865 295.14
20. Luigi Novelli National Machine Repair Dragst 5.825 177.58
21. Bob Vandergriff UPS Dragster 6.027 182.28
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - SUMMIT FastNews - Final order after 2 rounds of qualifying in Funny Car at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 39th annual ACDelco NHRA Gatornationals:
Psn Driver Vehicle ET Speed
1. Tony Pedregon Q Power Impala 4.780 326.40
2. John Force Castrol GTX Mustang 4.816 326.71
3. Tim Wilkerson Levi, Ray & Shoup Impala 4.820 320.58
4. Cruz Pedregon Advance Auto Parts Impala 4.841 316.15
5. Jim Head Head Racing Solara 4.847 325.77
6. Jack Beckman Valvoline/MTS Charger 4.847 324.12
7. Robert Hight AAA of So. Cal Mustang 4.863 318.39
8. Ashley Force Castrol GTX Mustang 4.864 319.45
9. Scott Kalitta DHL Solara 4.892 325.37
10. Del Worsham Checker Schuck's Kragen 4.903 313.80
11. Frank Hawley Charger 4.916 319.60
12. Bob Tasca III Motorcraft/Quick Lane Mustang 4.927 319.45
13. Ron Capps NAPA Auto Parts Charger 4.936 312.86
14. Mike Neff Old Spice Mustang 4.944 291.01
15. Gary Densham RaceBricks Impala 4.953 311.70
16. Jerry Toliver Rockstar Energy Drinks 4.973 291.26
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17. Bob Bode Alard Machine Monte C 4.979 290.26
18. Gary Scelzi Mopar Oakley Charger 5.014 307.37
19. Terry Haddock Race Girl Monte Carlo 5.187 277.15
20. Tommy Johnson Jr. Monster Energy Charger 5.226 287.96
21. Mike Smith Tire Kingdom Monte Carlo 5.412 191.97
22. Melanie Troxel ProCare RX Dodge RT 5.854 259.06
23. Tony Bartone Canidae Pet Food Monte Carlo DQ
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - SUMMIT FastNews - Final order after 2 rounds of qualifying in Pro Stock at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 39th annual ACDelco NHRA Gatornationals:
Psn Driver Vehicle ET Speed
1. Warren Johnson GM Performance Parts GXP 6.665 208.36
2. Kurt Johnson AC Delco Cobalt 6.665 207.27
3. Jeg Coughlin Jegs.com Cobalt 6.680 206.51
4. Mike Edwards Young Life/Penhall GTO 6.685 205.57
5. Allen Johnson J & J Racing Stratus 6.687 206.13
6. Greg Anderson Summit Racing Equipment GXP 6.689 206.45
7. Greg Stanfield Attitude Apparel GXP 6.690 205.72
8. Jason Line Summit Racing Equipment GXP 6.705 206.89
9. Rickie Jones Quarter Max Stratus 6.708 205.60
10. Justin Humphreys RaceRedi Motorsports GXP 6.709 205.19
11. Jim Yates Wiley X Eye Wear GXP 6.713 204.85
12. Dave Northrop GTO 6.714 204.76
13. V. Gaines Kendall Oil Stratus 6.715 205.41
14. Ron Krisher Valvoline Cobalt 6.721 205.60
15. Johnny Gray Stratus 6.741 205.01
16. Matt Hartford Nickens Brothers Racing Stratu 6.743 204.48
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17. Vinnie Deceglie Mountain View Tire Stratus 6.744 203.89
18. Kenny Koretsky Nitrofish/Indicom GXP 6.746 204.45
19. Larry Morgan Lucas Oil Stratus 6.761 205.13
20. Max Naylor VegasFuel Stratus 6.761 201.79
21. Tom Hammonds Cobalt 6.771 205.60
22. Bill Glidden Mickey Thompson Tires GTO 6.776 204.35
23. Steve Spiess Spiess Construction Cobalt 6.782 204.26
24. John Nobile Nobile Racing Stratus 6.793 204.98
25. Adam Flamholc Glueharbor / Amalie GTO 6.807 203.09
26. Bob Benza BNB Racing Cobalt 6.816 202.45
27. Jimmy Alund GTO 6.824 201.55
28. Richard Sundblom Cobalt 6.844 202.09
29. Matt Scranton GTO 6.895 199.70
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - SUMMIT FastNews - Final order after 2 rounds of qualifying in Pro Stock Motorcycle at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 39th annual ACDelco NHRA Gatornationals:
Psn Rider Vehicle ET Speed
1. Matt Guidera Rocklin Motorsports Buell 6.922 192.85
2. Matt Smith NitroFish/Torco Buell 6.972 190.38
3. Andrew Hines Screamin' Eagle/Vance & Hines 6.982 190.51
4. Eddie Krawiec Screamin' Eagle/Vance & Hines 7.001 190.97
5. Chip Ellis Schumacher Electric Suzuki 7.016 187.70
6. Angie McBride Buell 7.024 188.31
7. Angelle Sampey Rush Racing Products Buell 7.030 186.82
8. Karen Stoffer Geico Suzuki 7.035 188.70
9. Chris Rivas Drag Specialties/S&S/G2 Buell 7.041 190.27
10. Paul Gast Fast By Gast Suzuki 7.080 187.39
11. Wes Wells Ray Skillman Perf. Parts Suzuk 7.088 186.87
12. Shawn Gann Race Girl/Pure Power Suzuki 7.092 187.76
13. Michael Ray VRoom Racing Buell 7.135 184.45
14. Junior Pippin Stone Mtn & Granite Mtn HD Bue 7.136 181.67
15. Edward Murphy MPR & DAM Sport Suzuki 7.138 184.40
16. Hector Arana Lucas Oil Buell 7.147 186.54
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17. Steve Johnson Snap-On Tools Suzuki 7.181 191.05
18. Mike Berry MB Precision Machining Suzuki 7.226 185.03
19. Craig Treble Team Tigue Suzuki 7.265 189.60
20. Redell Harris Master P/Laron Laundry Buell 7.265 183.42
21. Darin McCurdy G&M Racing Suzuki 7.346 182.26
22. Ryan Schnitz Team Muzzy Kawasaki 7.471 177.16
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I gotta figure out how to post a spreadsheet so the rows line up.
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real hard to do in forums, maybe try in word and set as a table the copy and paste. Will ask deesee she makes graphs and spreadsheets
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Great! Thanks for asking! NHRA is mostly stats on race days, and it was a pain just to get it to look like it does.
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Great coverage, OBF!!...good job!!
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| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:50 pm Post subject: Three of four '07 season champs get Gators wins. |
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Reigning NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series world champs Tony Schumacher, Tony Pedregon, and Jeg Coughlin collected victories at the 39th annual ACDelco NHRA Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway, the third round of the 2008 season.
Coughlin and Pedregon earned their first wins of their title-defense seasons, scoring in Funny Car and Pro Stock, respectively, with final-round victories over Gary Densham and Jason Line, and Schumacher posted his second in Top Fuel by defeating Brandon Bernstein. As he did for his first win in Reading last year, No. 1 qualifier Matt Guidera won Pro Stock Motorcycle with a blistering string of four six-second passes. He’s the only rider to accomplish that feat.
Tony Schumacher
Schumacher, who started from a season-low fifth spot in qualifying, defeated J.R. Todd and Antron Brown with back-to-back laps of 4.61 and 4.59 but squeaked by season archrival Larry Dixon in the semifinals, where neither driver’s car ran up to its capabilities. Schumacher’s Army digger squirmed around its lane and dropped cylinders on the top end but managed a 4.74 to 4.85 win over Dixon’s U.S. Smokeless rail, which wasn’t in much better shape, to reach his 71st final. The race was their third straight in the semifinals this year and was a rematch of last year’s final round, which Schumacher also won. To add insult to Dixon’s injury, he was tagged with a 10-point oildown penalty in the loss. Schumacher scored his second straight and third overall Gatornationals victory in a 4.60 to 4.66 decision over Bernstein. The victory is Schumacher's 43rd in Top Fuel, just nine behind all-time class winner Joe Amato.
“There were a lot of good cars and a lot of people running equal to us, and every round was a battle,” said Schumacher. “We really had to earn this one. I look at this trophy and it’s a nice one, and we had really difficult cars to beat, and it was one of the harder ones to earn. We got some breaks. Running 4.74 against Dixon; last year, we would have gotten taken out.
“We’re really good at crunch time and when it matters, but getting a break every now and then is nice. This is Gainesville, one of my favorite races, and you look at the full stands and it’s a great race to win, but we’re going to need to try some different parts to get back ahead because everyone is right there with us.”
Bernstein, who won the Gatornationals in his 2003 rookie season but hadn’t won a round in Gainesville since and failed to make the starting field for last year’s event, came from seventh in the field and worked his Budweiser dragster past a pair of drivers making their 2008 debuts, Clay Millican and Michael Gunderson, the former with a 4.59 and the latter in a smoke-filled second-round bash. Bernstein regained a semblance of form in the semifinals and earned lane choice for his 24th Top Fuel final with a close 4.66 to 4.67 conquest of Hillary Will, ending her best outing of the season.
Tony Pedregon
Pedregon completed a great comeback from his terrifying explosion at the season opener in Pomona by reaching his 63rd final round with his Q Horsepower Impala and defeating Densham in a close battle, 4.921 to 4.924. Pedregon, who paced the field with a 4.78 – the only 4.7-second pass of the event – blew past Jerry Toliver in round one, 4.86 to 4.93, outpedaled Ashley Force in round two, 5.98 to 6.50, and reached the final with an off-pace 5.03 after Jim Head smoked the tires. Pedregon collected win number 37 in a close tilt with Densham, 4.921, 315.21 to 4.924, 309.13. Both drivers had won this event while in the employ of John Force, Pedregon in 2002 and Densham in 2003.
“We ran good when we had to run good and had a few rounds where we did what it took to win,” said Pedregon. “Usually it’s all about how quick and fast can we run and how much power can we apply to the track, but today we raced the conditions. Dickie [Venables, crew chief] had a really good game plan today. I have a lot of respect for Gary Densham, and we didn’t take him lightly -- I know some of his tricks; I hope he doesn’t think I forgot – and he’s a tough customer, and these conditions played right into his hands.
“To think that a little over a month ago I was in the hospital with burns on my hands is quite an accomplishment. It’s been pretty much nonstop for our crew, and we’ve had great support from our sponsors. We didn’t get off to the kind of start we wanted, but when you look at the quality of cars out here, you know why. You can’t count on too many of these guys just folding up. It used to be not that many years ago you had one or two cars; now you have a world-class field of 12 to 15 cars with all of the resources and talent. It’s going to be a dogfight, and every race is going to be important.”
Densham, who hadn’t reached a final round since doubling up at the 2004 Mac Tools U.S. Nationals while driving for Force, reached his first final as a team owner since the 1999 CARQUEST Auto Parts NHRA Winternationals, where he lost to then-Team Force driver Pedregon. Densham, who hadn’t won a round this year, qualified the Racebricks Chevy just 15th but upset his tire-smoking former boss in round one with a 4.91, eked past tractionless Del Worsham in the second round with a blower-belt-breaking 7.66 to Worsham’s 12.80, then squeezed past Tim Wilkerson on a holeshot in the semifinals, 4.96 to 4.92.
Jeg Coughlin
On the weekend that his father celebrated his 70th birthday and team owner Victor Cagnazzi his 50th, Coughlin reached the second final of his title defense from the No. 3 position and looked good doing it, racking up low e.t. of eliminations in round one with a 6.61 against Ron Krisher, then powering to passes of 6.64 and 6.66 to defeat Pomona champ Greg Anderson and lucky-on-the-day Johnny Gray, who scored the first two round-wins of his Pro Stock career by upsetting No. 2 qualifier Kurt Johnson and hard-charging Justin Humphreys. Coughlin collected his 39th Pro Stock win and 52nd overall by leaving on Line and outperforming him the rest of the quarter-mile, 6.652, 208.07 to 6.656, 209.10.
“The Gatornationals is definitely a marquee event on the NHRA tour, so it feels good to win here,” said Coughlin, whose win is his second at this event and earned him the points lead. “You always want to have the points lead with the Countdown to the Championship format, but we want that points lead bad coming into the second leg of the Countdown.
“Beating Greg on a holeshot in the second round was certainly a turning point for us, and we got a little fortunate in the semifinals after breaking the wheelie bar on the burnout. My crew chief told me I needed to shut it down, but I knew that Johnny had been having some problems, so I at least was going to stage it. As soon as I let the clutch out it brought the front end up but also started spinning the tires, which helped a lot and dropped the front end and ran quick enough to have lane choice for the final. Then to have Jason Line, the last reigning champ, in the other lane, I knew we had our hands full, and both of us put .65s on the board and put on a good show for the crowd."
Phoenix runner-up Line, like Summit team boss Anderson in Pomona, reached the final round in his first race with a new Pontiac GXP. It was the first time since the end of his 2006 world championship season that Line had put together back-to-back final-round appearances. Line, the No. 8 qualifier, advanced past red-lighting rookie Rickie Jones in round one, then beat low qualifier Warren Johnson, who spun the tires hard off the line, and Mike Edwards with back-to-back passes of 6.67 at 208 mph.
Matt Guidera
Guidera, who scored his first win last season at Maple Grove by becoming the first winning rider to run exclusively in the sixes on race day, did it again in Gainesville. Guidera rode his Rick Maney-tuned Mohegan Sun/Rocklin Motorsports Buell from his 6.92-second pole position to passes of 6.95 and a pair of 6.94s to race past Hector Arana, Chris Rivas, and Chip Ellis. Ellis was unable to contest the round after the engine on his new ride on Don Schumacher’s Suzuki soured after being started for the semifinals. He finished his run with yet another 6.94 to beat Andrew Hines, who also ran all sixes in defeat and lost with a 6.98.
“This win is so much better than our first win,” said Guidera, whose Reading win was on a Wednesday after rain delays. “I’m so happy with the No. 1 qualifier and that I didn’t beat myself. We ran consistent all day, but it was a lot different doing it in front of 30,000 people. I was feeling it and trying to relax and stay calm with everyone waving at you and looking at you. They say the first one is always special, but I don’t know how this one could have been much better. Every win is great, but to come in and run like we did and kick everybody's butt all day long is great.
“I think our team has come around a lot faster than the rest of the teams,” said Guidera. “I think a lot of these teams didn’t do their homework this season, and I know how hard our team worked, and it showed. We had the field covered by a couple of hundredths, but there was a lot of parity with two Buells, a Harley, and a Suzuki in the final four.”
Hines, who made history at this event in 2005 by recording the class’ first six-second pass, reached the final for the first time here since his inaugural Gainesville win in 2004 from the No. 3 hole with a string of six-second passes – 6.96, 6.95, and 6.97 – to trailer Junior Pippin, Angie McBride, and McBride’s teammate, reigning world champ Matt Smith, last year’s runner-up at this event. The battle between the class’ two most recent world champs was indicative of their status; both recorded 6.973s, and Hines won with a perfect .000 reaction time aboard his Screamin’ Eagle Harley-Davidson to Smith’s decent .014. |
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Next event:
OReilly NHRA Spring Nationals
Houston, Texas
March 28-30
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Qualifying for the pros is Friday and Saturday, March 28 and 29. I will post their final postions for eliminations on Saturday evening.
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