CORY MAC FINDS EARLY COMFORT ZONE AT ZMAX DRAGWAY
Sat, 2010-03-27 14:00
Even thought the drag strip includes two more lanes, Cory McLenathan is still comfortable at zMax Dragway.
McClenathan, the winner at zMax last September, roared to the top of Top Fuel the ladder with a 3.790-second, 315.93 mph pass in Friday’s second round of qualifying.
Asked if he wanted to race at the Concord, N.C. track every weekend, McClenathan just smiled.
Even thought the drag strip includes two more lanes, Cory McLenathan is still comfortable at zMax Dragway.
McClenathan, the winner at zMax last September, roared to the top of Top Fuel the ladder with a 3.790-second, 315.93 mph pass in Friday’s second round of qualifying.
Asked if he wanted to race at the Concord, N.C. track every weekend, McClenathan just smiled.
“I’ll just pretend it is Charlotte,” McClenathan said. “If you could put up a little screen of all the stands and all the people it’d be great. Anytime you go somewhere and you have a good weekend, you want to keep going back there. This is one of
those places.”
And this race is one of the special events that McClenathan seems to thrive in. He won the last time Top Fuel dragsters raced Funny Cars, and he’ll go for the first NHRA event victory using four lanes on Sunday.
“I look at this as being that type of deal,” McClenathan said. “You come in with that kind of attitude, and for some reason it seems to come together for you.
McClenathan earned the provisional No. 1 qualifying spot by beating two Don
Schumacher Racing teammates. Antron Brown was second at 3.819 seconds, with Tony Schumacher third at 3.830.
“(Crew chief) Todd (Okuhara), right before we started, said, ‘We’re pushing it, we’re going to push it and see what it’ll hold,’” McClenathan said. “We knew the right lane was really good. They’ve all been fantastic all day long. There’s a couple spots we’re trying to negotiate, so we came on the inside of that lane a little bit.
“But we got to about 800 foot, and I said, ‘Uh, huh, this is on a good run. It’s going to be OK.’”
McClenathan said his pass hurt the engine a little bit, but that may not be an issue.
This is Charlotte, after all.
McClenathan, the winner at zMax last September, roared to the top of Top Fuel the ladder with a 3.790-second, 315.93 mph pass in Friday’s second round of qualifying.
Asked if he wanted to race at the Concord, N.C. track every weekend, McClenathan just smiled.
Even thought the drag strip includes two more lanes, Cory McLenathan is still comfortable at zMax Dragway.
McClenathan, the winner at zMax last September, roared to the top of Top Fuel the ladder with a 3.790-second, 315.93 mph pass in Friday’s second round of qualifying.
Asked if he wanted to race at the Concord, N.C. track every weekend, McClenathan just smiled.
“I’ll just pretend it is Charlotte,” McClenathan said. “If you could put up a little screen of all the stands and all the people it’d be great. Anytime you go somewhere and you have a good weekend, you want to keep going back there. This is one of
those places.”
And this race is one of the special events that McClenathan seems to thrive in. He won the last time Top Fuel dragsters raced Funny Cars, and he’ll go for the first NHRA event victory using four lanes on Sunday.
“I look at this as being that type of deal,” McClenathan said. “You come in with that kind of attitude, and for some reason it seems to come together for you.
McClenathan earned the provisional No. 1 qualifying spot by beating two Don
Schumacher Racing teammates. Antron Brown was second at 3.819 seconds, with Tony Schumacher third at 3.830.
“(Crew chief) Todd (Okuhara), right before we started, said, ‘We’re pushing it, we’re going to push it and see what it’ll hold,’” McClenathan said. “We knew the right lane was really good. They’ve all been fantastic all day long. There’s a couple spots we’re trying to negotiate, so we came on the inside of that lane a little bit.
“But we got to about 800 foot, and I said, ‘Uh, huh, this is on a good run. It’s going to be OK.’”
McClenathan said his pass hurt the engine a little bit, but that may not be an issue.
This is Charlotte, after all.
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