![]() ![]() "Some crew chief has to be the best," said Schumacher, who won this event last year and also in 20. "In Top Fuel it's obviously Alan Johnson. He credited his crew chief for the consistent performance of his race car. He will face rookie driver Alan Bradshaw in Sunday's 11 a.m. He also logged runs of 4.47, 4.48, and 4.49 in his U.S. ![]() Schumacher's performance, a 4.459 second run at 330.96 mph, earned him his second consecutive top qualifying position of the year and the 24th of his career. Schumacher, a three-time NHRA Top Fuel world champion, also claimed the other two, one at the 2003 NHRA Finals and the second at last year's fall race in Chicago. It's just the third time a racer has posted 4.4-second runs during all four qualifying attempts. 1 qualifiers in their respective categories at the $1.5 million race, the second of 23 events in the $50 million NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series. 1 qualifying position Saturday at the Checker Schuck's Kragen NHRA Nationals presented by Castrol at Firebird International Raceway.Įric Medlen and Greg Anderson also were No. Tony Schumacher raced to a string of 4.4-second passes to secure the No. 1 QUALIFYING AWARDS AT CHECKER SCHUCK'S KRAGEN NHRA NATIONALSĬHANDLER, Ariz. We improved, the car is still running and we will be out there again. The first round ended our weekend's competition but it didn't dim my spirits one bit. I am hoping that at this rate of improvement we will be competitive in a few more runs. We tuned the car up incrementally and the car ran a 6.35 at 222 mph. That pass was good enough for the 16th spot in the field which gave us the number one qualifier Sean Bellemeur for the first round. ![]() Thanks to intermittent rain storms we only got one qualifying pass but that one got us in the show with a 6.90 at 212 mph. ![]() The motor was intentionally set soft with the idea of working our way to a competitive tune up as the weekend progressed. We hit the race track for only the second pass on the new car and the first pass on the new motor Saturday. The new Minor bros motor didn't actually get fired till Friday Morning. This is a short report on the Germain Motorsports team results from the Seattle National event. ![]()
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