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NHRA: Schumacher Scores 9th U.S. Nationals Victory
Move over,Toms Shoes Outlet, Big Daddy. Bob Glidden, you're next.Tony Schumacher won his ninth U.S. Nationals on Sunday, beating Don Schumacher Racing teammate Spencer Massey through the Top Fuel final in the 58th annual Mac Tools U.S. Nationals presented by Auto-Plus at Lucas Oil Raceway.Schumacher moved past "Big Daddy" Don Garlits for the best Top Fuel wins at Indy and tied Pro Stock's Glidden for all victories in drag racing's biggest event."It may be sweeter (versus the first handle gripsIndy win)," Schumacher said of his second victory of the year and 69th of his career. "Any more, it's harder to win a race, by far and away, of computer has probably traditional. Workplaces where i was a tenth in advance of everybody and only was required to not make any mistakmotorcycle racing partses, nevertheless top seven cars are so close that it can be pretty gratifying."Mike Neff (Funny Car), Dave Connolly (Pro Stock) and Andrewled tail light assembly Hines (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also were winners with the final regular-season event through the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series.Schumacher beat Hillary Will, Morgan Lucas without. 1 qualifier Shawn Langdon to advance to his 11th final at Indy.There, he was harmonized against Massey, who is responsible for tied for your Top Fuel lead with four victories this holiday season. But Schumacher left firstadjustable levers and never was headed within the U.S. Army dragster, running 3.806 seconds at 315.34 mph to beat Massey's pass of three.828 at 31sportbike mirrors9.37 mph."To have a chance to win a ninth against my teammate who had been running nearly as good if you're not better along with lane choice live through a wonderful moment," Schumacher said. "I didn't look like I was stellar in the lights, nevertheless left on everybody, (crew chief) Mike Green made the auto run fast, and now we got the trophy."Another DSR driver, Antron Brown, secured the top end seed while in the Countdown towards Championship that begins next weekend in Charlotte, and Bob Vandergriff Jr. edged Clay Millican and Khalid alBalooshi to the final playoff spot in Top Fuel.Neff raced to his second consecutive win as of this event, suppressing Tim Wilkerson from a battle of Ford Mustangs. Neff's Castrol GTX Ford raced with a pass of 4.079 seconds at 311.05 mph to defeat Wilkerson's 4.152 at 286.13 mph."This may be the U.S. Nationals, then there's something regarding it," Neff said. "You know there is a lot more endangered. You are hoping to tell yourself it's mainly merely another race, however it's not. You should not deny that. It's amazing for me how close everything ended up things undergo just last year. Some qualify real well recently but felt like we had arrived pretty close."I remember arising on Monday morning in 2009 simply not feeling very good. I seemed to be discussing with my cousin in '09, saying,Cheap Toms Shoes, 'I dunno. We're really going to have to pull something out of a hat here to do something today.' We had arrived able to perform it both times."The win was John Force Racing's fifth consecutivemotorcycle engine covers victory in the Big Go.Wilkerson's runner-up finish elevated him to 10th while in the Funny Car points standings and locked him inside the Countdown. Jeff Arend secured the ninth spot. Defending series champion Matt Hagan missed the playoffs after losing through the semifinals to Neff. Ron Capps earned the best seed inside playoffs in Funny Car.Connolly won an entertaining matchup with GK Motorsports teammate Erica Enders in your Pro Stock final. Enders had won the last two races and three from the last six, with Connolly serving as crew chief with Tommy Utt in her KLR Group Chevrolet.But Connolly, a past Indy winner, was entered in any second GK Chevy here, and finished up which has a reaction time convenience of beat Enders. Connolly's pass of 6.589 at 210.05 mph in her IDG Chevy Cobalt was slower than Enders' run of 6.580 at 210.31 mph, but Connolly enjoyed a slight .011-second advantage to win by .002 seconds."It was definitely bittersweet inside final, to do Erica," Connolly said after winning his third U.S. Nationals title. "I hope she wins next six finals, but it was the U.S. Nationals, and also there had not been laying over. We merely somehow, , nor ask me how, we were win. We were making pretty ugly runs, and her car was like a bracket car. Our car isn't picture perfect in the slightest, but I'm not saying giving the trophy back."Allen Johnson captured the superior seed in Pro Stock, as well as the final three playoff positions were claimed by V Gaines, Larry Morgan and four-time world champ Jeg Coughlin.Hines earned his first Indy victory by outrunning Hector Arana Sr. in the final round. Hines rode his Screamin' Eagle Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson towards a pass of 6.937 at 191.70 mph to consider easy win as Arana's Lucas Oil Buell slowed at mid-track and finished in 7.456 rearsetsat 157.54 seconds. It had been Hines' fourth win of year and 29th of his career."This really is satisfying," Hines said. "Minus 1 year, I've raced each and every year on a Harley. As well as for us to struggle like we've done here, with inconsistency in tuning and riding, and every scenario possible going against us, likebrake clutch levers recently when my transmission locked up following the first round burnout, to finally purchase the Indy win and stand it the U.S. Nationals winner's circle is something I'm able to appreciate everyday years from now. I had put together found the winner's circle 4 times here while using Pro Bike battle, and then to actually stand there in the U.S. Nationals trophy means the world to my opinion."With the win, the Harleys claimed victories in every one 10 regular-season events and Eddie Krawiec locked up the top end seed in the playoffs. Michael Ray, Shawn Gann and Matt Smith claimed the total three playoff positions inside PSM top 10. |
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