WEIRD SCENARIO FOR FORCE
Sun, 2009-06-07 12:28
One of the more off occurrences of Saturday qualifying at the NHRA
Route 66 Nationals transpired during the third qualifying session 
when
Bob Tasca’s tree flashed and went green but John Force’s didn’t and
went red.
Force rolled into the beams but neither pre-stage or stage lights would illuminate. Tasca couldn’t hold his car any longer and left the starting line on green.
NHRA officials deemed the miscue a tree malfunction and granted Force the opportunity to rerun the qualifying attempt. Under crew chief Austin Coil’s orders the team returned to the pits, refueled and returned for the completion of the run. One of the more off occurrences of Saturday qualifying at the NHRA Route 66 Nationals transpired during the third qualifying sessionwhen
Bob Tasca’s tree flashed and went green but John Force’s didn’t and
went red.
Force rolled into the beams but neither pre-stage or stage lights would illuminate. Tasca couldn’t hold his car any longer and left the starting line on green.
NHRA officials deemed the miscue a tree malfunction and granted Force the opportunity to rerun the qualifying attempt. Under crew chief Austin Coil’s orders the team returned to the pits, refueled and returned for the completion of the run.
Force wanted to back up and run immediately, but Coil was concerned the car didn’t have enough nitro in the tank to reach the finish line. The team passed on making any clutch adjustments for the sake of falling right in line with Top Fuel qualifying.
“It wouldn’t have been fair to the other racers if we came back out 40 minutes later and ran low E.T.,” Force told ESPN 2. “We whipped her back in the pits … I never got out of my firesuit … whipped her back around and I still don’t know what took place.
“I kept rolling and rolling forward, the lights wouldn’t come on and the next thing I knew Tasca took off. I said, ‘ain’t no way I’m going for this. I got my shot, I didn’t do anything wrong.”
Force ran a 4.127, 301.20 on his makeup run, a good run but not what Coil wanted for the session.
“That put more heat in the clutch,” Coil admitted. “It no doubt made the clutch slip more than we had intended. Instead of it stepping up, it ran about the same. That’s the breaks of the game.”
when
Bob Tasca’s tree flashed and went green but John Force’s didn’t and
went red.Force rolled into the beams but neither pre-stage or stage lights would illuminate. Tasca couldn’t hold his car any longer and left the starting line on green.
NHRA officials deemed the miscue a tree malfunction and granted Force the opportunity to rerun the qualifying attempt. Under crew chief Austin Coil’s orders the team returned to the pits, refueled and returned for the completion of the run. One of the more off occurrences of Saturday qualifying at the NHRA Route 66 Nationals transpired during the third qualifying session
when
Bob Tasca’s tree flashed and went green but John Force’s didn’t and
went red.Force rolled into the beams but neither pre-stage or stage lights would illuminate. Tasca couldn’t hold his car any longer and left the starting line on green.
NHRA officials deemed the miscue a tree malfunction and granted Force the opportunity to rerun the qualifying attempt. Under crew chief Austin Coil’s orders the team returned to the pits, refueled and returned for the completion of the run.
Force wanted to back up and run immediately, but Coil was concerned the car didn’t have enough nitro in the tank to reach the finish line. The team passed on making any clutch adjustments for the sake of falling right in line with Top Fuel qualifying.
“It wouldn’t have been fair to the other racers if we came back out 40 minutes later and ran low E.T.,” Force told ESPN 2. “We whipped her back in the pits … I never got out of my firesuit … whipped her back around and I still don’t know what took place.
“I kept rolling and rolling forward, the lights wouldn’t come on and the next thing I knew Tasca took off. I said, ‘ain’t no way I’m going for this. I got my shot, I didn’t do anything wrong.”
Force ran a 4.127, 301.20 on his makeup run, a good run but not what Coil wanted for the session.
“That put more heat in the clutch,” Coil admitted. “It no doubt made the clutch slip more than we had intended. Instead of it stepping up, it ran about the same. That’s the breaks of the game.”
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