Among wellknown drivers not racing this weekend mainly due to the inability to find sponsors are. Feb 25, 2008 sunday at auto club raceway pomona, calif. The team had planned to set records at bonneville as well, but the event was rained out two years in a row. It has been our mission to become the very best fuel price solution in the industry for.
Brittany force sets top fuel record in qualifying at reading. Top fuel dragsters are the quickest accelerating racing cars in the world and the fastest. How does nhra top fuel driver dave grubnic and his crew stay in great racing form. By keeping their uniforms sparkly clean and their bodies. Gainesville, fl both robert hight and brittany force made history saturday night when they secured their no. May 25, 20 advance auto parts partnerships, sponsorships and other cool stuff in the automotive world and in the community see more ideas about top fuel dragster. Australian tuner david grubnics name doesnt appear in the nhra record book but his handiwork is all over it.
Twotime top fuel world champ dixon powered his skytel dragster to a 4. View david grubnics profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. In the first pairing of fridays second round of top fuel qualifying, tony schumacher, a twotime champion here, ran what was then the fastest mark of 3. Auto world david grubnic optima, top fuel dragster. Brittany force sets top fuel record in qualifying at reading racer.
Clay millican and david grubnic have stepped up the performance of the parts plus great clips dragster recently, and its showing up on scoreboards across the nhra drag racing landscape. Brittany force records quickest pass in nhra history at reading. David grubnic auto world authentics 124 2012 optima batteries. Auto world david grubnic optima, top fuel dragster, yellow. Grubnic is in 12th place in mello yello top fuel championship points, only 69 points away from reentering the top ten.
Nhra nationals at maple grove raceway saturday qualifying. Some may have thought that delivering a second top fuel championship to the jfr team in his first season as brittany forces crew chief was a. Grubnic joins jfr after leading clay millican to a careerbest thirdplace finish in the top fuel ranks last season. Nhra nationals schumacher blazes to win the seattle times.
Feb 12, 2012 david grubnic takes off during qualifying at the nhra oreilly winternationals at pomona in his optima batteriessponsored top fuel dragster. Army team have a rocket ship of a car and a highly organized operation. Points leaders the topeka capitaljournal, may 22, 2015. Mar 31, 2008 auto racing nhra spring nationals yesterdays results at houston raceway park.
Top fuel dragsters are the quickest accelerating racing cars in the world and the fastest sanctioned category of drag racing, with the fastest competitors reaching speeds of 335 miles per hour 539 kmh and finishing the 1,000 foot 305 m runs in 3. Featuring popular brands like amt, mpc, polar lights, auto world, johnny lightning, racing champions, mini metals and more. Hight became the first racer to collect three consecutive no. Sep 14, 2019 brittany force and her team werent horsing around at maple grove raceway in the heart of amish country at the 35th annual mopar express lane nhra nationals presented by pennzoil when they set a new national top fuel elapsed time record on saturday. Kansas nationals the topeka capitaljournal, may 23, 2014.
Forces strong in fridays qualifying sessions at springnationals. David grubnic takes off during qualifying at the nhra oreilly. Fuelbook has been helping the trucking community save money with millions of fuel searches every year. That is 100 percent david grubnic doing his thing, millican said, referring to his crew chief, who is also a former top fuel driver. He was the top qualifier, won the race with a trackrecord time of 6. Auto racing nhra spring nationals yesterdays results at houston raceway park. Apr 10, 2019 the john force racing top fuel team added crew chiefs david grubnic and mac savage into the mix in 2019, and the potential has already been obvious. Grubnic is an 18year top fuel veteran and earned his first career top fuel victory in topeka, kansas in 2005, becoming the first racer born outside north america to win an nhra top fuel event. Im absolutely thrilled for donnie bender, crew chief, dixon said of his secondyear tuner. Youre in class for two days, learning out of a book. For brittany force, the family business has been quite good.
David grubnic crew chief stringer performance linkedin. It was pretty impressive to do that with the advance auto parts team including dave grubnic and mac savage and all the guys with us. Grubnic looks to add to his nhra top fuel resume at this. Apr 18, 2004 schumachers pace, top fuel dragster hard to match tony schumacher and the u.
Funny car driver ron capps still chasing his first season title. Steve torrence sits in the second spot in top fuel with an et of 3. Sep 16, 2019 brittany force marched to the quickest wheeldriven elapsed time in nhra history on saturday afternoon at the maple grove raceway in reading, pennsylvania with an incredible 3. Optimasponsored drag racer, david grubnic ready to. Nhra nationals at maple grove raceway saturday qualifying results, sunday elimination pairings. Grubnic scored the most recent of his three career national event top fuel victories at heartland park topeka in 2012. Denver native melanie troxel is on pace to become the first woman to win the nhras top fuel title since shirley muldowney in 1982. The defending top fuel world champion brittany force qualified second after running 3. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover davids. Auto world 4gear nhra david grubnic optima batteries top fuel. Australian tuner david grubnic s name doesnt appear in the nhra record book but his handiwork is all over it.
After a slow start to the season, force came alive in gainesville, qualifying no. But it was her run from saturday that will be featured in the nhra history books. Sep 15, 2019 nhra nationals at maple grove raceway saturday qualifying results, sunday elimination pairings. Schumacher and nobile sidelined at nhra winternationals.
One generation, represented by eighttime top fuel champion tony schumacher, will not compete in the nhras opening winternationals, which opens the 2019 season friday at auto club raceway. See more ideas about top fuel dragster, top fuel and drag racing. Tony bartone funny car winner here last year, david grubnic top fuel runnerup here in. Brittanyforce just made the quickest pass in nhra top fuel history with.
Last weekend, grubby raced into the semifinals at the northwest nationals, but he doesnt race again until the nhra full throttle series makes their way to minnesota for the lucas oil nationals on august 16th. Schumacher goes to the second spot with top speed of the meet and kalitta improves over his previous best by a whole thousandth. When it comes to the performance of the advance auto parts top fuel dragster, crew chief david grubnic has little to apologize for, but the affable aussie is big on accountability so hes. Promising rookie upstart coming up from the nostalgia racing ranks, worm burst onto the scene in top fuel during the 2017 season in the leverich racing top fuel dragster.
Apr 04, 2014 grubnic scored the most recent of his three career national event top fuel victories at heartland park topeka in 2012. All 8 pro track records fall at nhra qualifying in sonoma. Not a book, but the best drag racing magazine out there. Valentines chunky liftaflap board book holly berrybyrd. Millican, capps and laughlin take home wallys in the. A chat with nhra top fuel drag racing star brittany force forbes. David grubnic drives the optima batteries top fuel dragster on the nhra mello yello drag racing series. Steve torrence narrowly ended up third following his 3. David grubnic dominates the speed sheet in top fuel nhra. Nobody quicker in top fuel than brittany force, david grubnic the average elapsed time of the monster energy team now comes with more consistency 10 feb 2020.
David grubnic defeated melanie troxel to win top fuel. Top fuel winner brittany force right is congratulated by runner up steve. The big secret of nhra top fuel drag racing revealed by david grubnic of candlewood suites duration. The dragtime news 2012 nhra supernationals, englishtown nj. Schumachers pace, top fuel dragster hard to match houston. Top fuel news newspapers books scholar jstor july 2019 learn how and when to remove this template. David grubnic dominates the speed sheet in top fuel nhra nhra national hot rod. David grubnic is the driver of the optima batteriessponsored top fuel dragster, fielded by kalitta motorsports in the nhra. Another unique item for the discriminating motorsports collector. See more ideas about nhra drag racing, drag racing and racing. The kalitta motorsports optima batteries top fuel dragster was raced by david grubnic during the 2012 nhra full throttle season.
Brittany force breaks nhra national top fuel time record. Grubnic finished 11th in points in 20, a season in which he posted his 10th. Spencer massey top fuel, mike neff funny car, allen johnson pro stock, matt smith pro stock motorcycle last winners. Just minutes before kalittas recordsetting run, david grubnic held the top mark of 3. We recognized early there was an important need to help truckers search for low fuel prices and help fleet drivers make sense of complex fuel discounts. Russian criminal tattoo encyclopaedia volume iii russian criminal tattoo encyclopaedia postcards cccp cook book. Ap brittany force broke the nhra national top fuel time record saturday in qualifying for the mopar express lane nhra national. Hes had his share of ups and downs and sunday being fathers day didnt make. In 253 previous top fuel starts, the energetic drummonds, tenn.
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