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Mon, 2013-02-25 13:00
Erica Enders-Stevens outran top qualifier Mike Edwards in the Pro Stock final round to earn her fifth career victory. She used a quicker reaction time in her GK Racing Chevy Cobalt to take the win from Edwards in his Interstate Batteries / I Am Second Chevy Camaro. Enders-Stevens finished in 6.538 at 211.99, just in front of Edwards’ quicker but losing performance of 6.520 at 213.74.
“Coming off the season we had last year, and starting the way that we did this year, it was a kind of a gut check in that we wonder if we can ever get it done again,” Enders-Stevens said. “Our guys really worked their butts off during the winter, but we didn’t get the chance to test a lot. And I was a little bit nervous coming into this year because the other big teams got to test a lot. But our guys proved that they can pick up where they left off, and I’m excited.”
Sun, 2013-02-24 13:00
In Funny Car, Gray earned his fourth No. 1 of his career and second in a row at this event, as no one improved on his Friday run of 4.034 at 313.80 in his Pitch Energy Dodge Charger.
“We wanted to run both [of today’s qualifying runs] real good,” said Gray, who will race defending event winner Robert Hight in the first round. “We made just a spectacular run this morning [4.04]. It was ‘stupid fast’ for the session. But we had some things go wrong with the car on the second run, and the track got better than the car. But you learn something every time you go to the starting line, and we feel really, really confident going into tomorrow. Who knows? Maybe I can get this win off of my ‘bucket list’.”
Sun, 2013-02-24 13:00
In Pro Stock, Mike Edwards claimed his second consecutive No. 1 qualifying position of the season and 43rd of his career with his Friday track record performance of 6.498 seconds at 213.13 mph in his Interstate Batteries/I Am Second Chevy Camaro. He will face Steve Kent in the opening round of eliminations.
Sat, 2013-02-23 13:00
In Funny Car, Capps earned his 39th career victory and third at this event, outrunning Matt Hagan in the final round. Capps powered his NAPA Auto Parts Dodge Charger to a 4.064 at 314.90 to finish in front of Hagan’s Mopar/Rocky Footwear Charger, which trailed with a 4.158 at 300.33.
Capps reeled off a series of quick runs in the mid 4.0 second range in early round wins over Tony and Cruz Pedregon and Tim Wilkerson. His machine was just as quick in the final round over Hagan.
Sat, 2013-02-23 13:00
For Funny Car driver Johnny Gray, the 2013 season will be his farewell to fulltime drag racing. And when he learned his sponsor from the past few years would not return, he and his sister, Terry Chandler, decided to sponsor the Dodge Charger themselves and turn it into a tribute to their late father.
The elder Gray wasn't keen on his son "fooling around" at the racetrack. He thought he should be devoting more attention to their oil and gas industry enterprise, Mar-Bob Energy. But when he finally agreed to come to the NHRA races and see what excited his son so much, he had to admit those Funny Cars were pretty exciting.
Sat, 2013-02-23 13:00
Call him the Unsinkable Antron Brown.
The Matco Tools driver showed that not even a nasty-looking crash that destroyed his race car -- not even a quick turn-around time to learn brand-new, untested version of it -- could stop him from driving to the top of the Top Fuel pack.
Mon, 2013-02-18 23:36
With all the grace and confident composure of a veteran drag racer and enthusiasm for the sport like a true member of the Force family, Top Fuel rookie Brittany Force took the first round-loss of her career in stride.
The No. 15-qualified Force, driving the Castrol Edge Dragster, gave No. 2 Brandon Bernstein and his Protect the Harvest / MAVTV car a strong challenge. But thanks to a better reaction time at the starting line (.035 seconds to .096), his 3.785-second elapsed time at 324.44 mph beat her respectable 3.822, 323.43.
Mon, 2013-02-18 13:30
Shaken but apparently not seriously injured, reigning Top Fuel champion Antron Brown rode out a violent second-round accident during Sunday's eliminations of the O'Reilly Auto Parts Winternationals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, Calif.
Almost at the end of his 1,000-foot race against Dave Grubnic, the engine in Brown's Matco Tools Dragster exploded. Brown was clocked going across the finish line first in 3.848 seconds at 308.64 mph.
Mon, 2013-02-18 13:00
Sunday's Pomona final round will go down as one of the most memorable anti-climactic wins in Vincent Nobile's Pro Stock career.
But it was the wild turn of events leading up to the Pro Stock final against teammate Jeg Coughlin Jr. which promises to keep people talking for quite some time.
Coughlin eventually went red, giving Nobile the Pro Stock victory at the season-opening NHRA Winternationals in Pomona, but that is only part of the story.
Mon, 2013-02-18 13:00
As the easygoing Shawn Langdon soaked up the spotlight Sunday evening at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona for winning the Top Fuel final of the O'Reilly Auto Parts Winternationals, the memories flooded back to him.
He grew up in nearby Mira Loma, Calif., and this is the dragstrip where he grew up, watching dad Chad race in the NHRA's Super Gas class in the mid-1980s. It's where he started his own racing career in 1994 in the Jr. Dragster program.
In this video, Langdon discusses his second career victory Sunday in Pomona.
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