This past offseason, the Yas Marina Circuit partnered with Don Schumacher Racing, and as such Lee Beard, who is the team manager of DSR, was in charge of putting together two complete Top Fuel dragster teams for the Yas Marina Circuit.

Yas Marina is a spectacular motor racing circuit in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The new Top Fuel teams with drivers Tommy Johnson Jr. and Hot Rod Fuller are based in Abu Dhabi.

Neither Johnson Jr. or Fuller has competed on the NHRA national event circuit this year, but that is expected to change in July. Fuller likely will make his NHRA season debut at the 23rd annual Fram-Autolite Nationals in Sonoma, Calif., July 16-18.

This past offseason, the Yas Marina Circuit partnered with Don Schumacher Racing, and as such Lee Beard, who is the team manager of DSR, was in charge of putting together two complete Top Fuel dragster teams for the Yas Marina Circuit.

Yas Marina is a spectacular motor racing circuit in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The new Top Fuel teams with drivers Tommy Johnson Jr. and Hot Rod Fuller are based in Abu Dhabi.

Neither Johnson Jr. or Fuller has competed on the NHRA national event circuit this year, but that is expected to change in July. Fuller likely will make his NHRA season debut at the 23rd annual Fram-Autolite Nationals in Sonoma, Calif., July 16-18.

“At this point and time they (the Yas Marina Curcuit) are sending one car back here to the United States, it’s on a boat right now coming back here,” Beard said. “I believe they plan on running four or five races with it, probably starting somewhere around Sonoma and Hot Rod with be driving it. The other operation is still over in Abu Dhabi and what’s going to transpire with it, we don’t know. We (DSR) do not own those operations. We built them and tested them and they purchased all the equipment from us. Now, we’re just a management group that’s going to run it for them. Everything is really in their hands in terms of what they want to do. I think the main reason they are sending the one car back here is to try and promote tourism, and open up the eyes of the American public to what is going on in Abu Dhabi and what a wonderful place it is and all the motorsports facilities they have built there.”

Beard says the two teams with Fuller and Johnson Jr. will race in Abu Dhabi in six months or so.

“I know they have some events planned, I believe it is late November, early December. Then after that, probably into January and maybe February. Basically, when it is winter time here (in America), it is a desirable time to go there (to Abu Dhabi).”