![]() The victory is the 62nd of Hight’s career and gives him a narrow points lead. The Funny Car final pitted a pair of three-time world champions and last year’s top two finishers, reigning world champ Ron Capps and second-place Robert Hight, but Hight reversed that outcome easily, powering to a 3.93 after Capps lost traction early in his run. Langdon bookended 3.71 passes around a tire-hazing second-round 4.00 to advance the DHL dragster past Antron Brown, low qualifier Doug Kalitta, and Leah Pruett to reach his 35h career Top Fuel final. Ashley eked out a semifinal win over four-time world champ Steve Torrence, who fireballed his engine in a tight 3.74 to 3.74 contest, to reach his 12th career Top Fuel final. 7 qualifying position, defeated Tony Schumacher – the winningest Top Fuel driver in event history with five previous scores – with a 3.74 then used a matching number to take out Gatornationals champ Mike Salinas in the second round. ![]() I'm just really proud of our Phillips Connect/Toyota team powered by National Debt Relief after just a really, really awesome, fantastic fun day."Īshley, who opened his raceday from the No. They've been working on things and for it to go four rounds today and collect the win, maybe even more importantly, long run., we've got four more runs to collect data. ".I couldn't be happier when I looked at the time slip it was just a total team effort. "I knew before that round that were going to try and step it up because Shawn had been running so well, so I knew that they were going to try and take it from that. and red-lighting Kyle Koretsky to reach the final, the 54th of his career and his 26th in Pro Stock.Ī pair of second-generation racers duked it out in the Top Fuel final where Ashley took down Shawn Langdon on a 3.70 to 3.73, saving his best run of the meet for the final round, where he collected his sixth career Top Fuel win and eighth overall. There's just a whole bunch of people here that I couldn't have done it without, especially my team and our partners."Ĭaruso is the 19th woman to win an NHRA Professional title and her victory was the 188th by females in NHRA Pro competition and 361st time overall.Ĭaruso reached the final of what could be the last event at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park by working her Dave Connolly-tuned Powerbuilt Tools Camaro past Deric Kramer, low qualifier Cristian Cuadra, and local favorite Matt Hagan for her second career final-round berth.īutner opened his raceday ledger with a tight win over his Johnson’s Horsepowered Garage teammate reigning world champ Erica Enders, then took down Fernando Cuadra Jr. Honestly, everybody's from Powerbuilt and Tequila Commisario is here. I was really hoping we'd start the year off with a really good bang. I just went out there like it was another round and tried my best to do my job because I knew the guys were going to do theirs. "I don't really look around, but it was so awesome. ![]() "Honestly, I'm not gonna lie, I wasn't really sure if I won or not because I'll just focus on going straight," she said. ![]()
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