“It’s outstanding, to be in different conditions run in and still be able to run that. We’ll put today behind us, and got in that last qualifying session which was good, solid run for us. We felt good going into and got to the semifinals, but we got beat, so our bigger focus now is raceday tomorrow. “It was a bummer to lose out on the All-Star Callout, but we got the No. So same game plan coming into this season, and we’ll have to deliver tomorrow.” The game plan coming into the last few seasons is we wanted to do both, and we definitely turned things around last season where we ended up with the championship. We’d grab points, but then we would struggle so bad on race day. We struggled with that in the past we’d have all these No. 1 qualifiers are always great as long as we deliver on Sunday. “It’s pretty cool to be able to accomplish that with your team,” notes Force on her 43rd No. 1 of her young career, which spans just 213 events.Īlthough Force lost in the semifinals of the Pep Boys All-Star Top Fuel callout when she uncharacteristically smoked the tires, the run didn’t count for qualifying anyway and she closed qualifying with the two quickest runs of the two days and maximum qualifying bonus points. 1 spot in Top Fuel with her Friday 3.699, but her David Grubnic-tuned Monster Energy team put an emphatic punctuation mark on their first pole of the season by having the quickest car of both of Saturday’s sessions with respective runs of 3.744 and 3.718. 1 qualifier, her 43rd in NHRA, and facing Keith Murt No. Team Chevy led the way in Top Fuel, with Brittany Force setting the stage as the No. Qualifying for the 2023 season-opening AMALIE Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals has been completed, setting the ladders for Sunday’s eliminations at Gainesville Raceway in Gainesville, Florida.
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In fact, Garlits took more than a half-minute to complete the 1,000-foot run.It isn’t an exaggeration to say that Saturday’s crowd at the 54th annual Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals was one of the largest ever to see a drag race in person and the stars of the Camping World NHRA Drag Racing Series responded with a phenomenal show to help set the fields for Sunday’s final eliminations. A few weeks later, he was paralyzed in an exhibition race in England. Gwynn's final NHRA victory came at the Gatornationals in 1991. The two staged a match race to raise money for Gwynn's foundation that supports treatment for spinal cord injuries. On Friday, he added an electric car victory over Darrell Gwynn. "Big Daddy" Don Garlits has four Top Fuel wins at the Gatornationals. He will have two more opportunities to lock in a top-16 qualifying times to advance to Sunday's eliminations. I'll try anything."īusch proved it's not as easy as it looked, failing to get off the line in both of his Friday passes. "I wouldn't want to do it full-time, but I think I'd like to try it. "I've never had the desire to do it in the past, but I think it would be cool now," Rahal said.
Rahal was making an appearance for his Ind圜ar sponsor, but he came away with a different respect.
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The same went for Ind圜ar Series driver Graham Rahal.Īll were at the Gainesville Raceway on Friday for the first two rounds of qualifying for the Gatornationals.īusch was making his professional drag racing debut in the Pro Stock class, and Helton, the NASCAR president, spent the afternoon touring the massive facility. NASCAR's Kurt Busch and Mike Helton had the weekend off, but they couldn't stay away from the racetrack. We're here to have fun, and running 213 is a lot of fun." "When you're from the South, you do things a little different," he said. We take things a little easier in the South." "You'll see guys get off the track and immediately start tearing things apart and thinking of new ideas to go faster," Brogdon said. Some struggled with the amount of grip in the asphalt, and others found ways to keep the tires from shaking at the launch. "It was so smooth I could have taken my hands off the steering wheel."īrogdon used two year-old notes to find a setup for the conditions. "That was the most-perfect run I've ever made in a car," Brogdon said. Erica Enders was going 213.57 mph at the finish line to reset the record for speed. Three national records and six track records were broken in the four professional classes, but none more impressive than in Pro Stock.įive cars beat the speed record, and top-qualifier Rodger Brogdon set the mark for fastest time at 6.496 seconds. Track conditions at Gainesville Raceway and cool weather were a perfect combination for speed records during the first two rounds of qualifying for the Tire Kingdom Gatornationals. GAINESVILLE - Before Friday, a Pro Stock racer had never been clocked at 213 mph at the finish line of the 1,000-foot race.
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