Capps ran into trouble almost immediately in the championship round, as Pedregon cruised to his second victory this season and 38th in his career. Pedregon stayed in the championship hunt in Funny Car, taking out points leader Ron Capps in the final round with a run of 4.257 seconds at 225.03 mph in his 11,000-horsepower Snap-On Tools Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat. Salinas moved to third in points, while Force stayed in second heading to the finale in Pomona. Salinas reached his second straight final round and ninth in his career thanks to victories against Doug Kalitta, Billy Torrence and Brittany Force in a thrilling semifinal round. Today, I was able to do my job and it’s a huge confidence-booster going into Pomona.” At the end of the day, we’re racing ourselves, so you have to be comfortable in that. You hear all the stuff and you know what’s going on, but you have to tune that out. I’ve really tried to focus on doing my job and not letting things get into my head. We’ll go to Pomona and see if we can get it done. They told me to go and do my job and when they stand behind you like that, it’s truly the definition of a team. “It was just a great weekend for us and we just had to do our job. “It’s truly unbelievable,” Torrence said. Torrence was impressive on the starting line in the championship round and it led to another victory in his dominant campaign, as the Texan will now take a 105-point lead into the final race of the season.
To reach the final round, the points leader took out Jim Maroney, Tripp Tatum and Justin Ashley and then posted a wire-to-wire win against Salinas.
Torrence drove his 11,000-horsepower Capco Contractors dragster to a 10th win in his impressive 2021 season, powering to a run of 3.717 seconds at 329.50 mph in the final round against Mike Salinas, who went 3.737 seconds at 314.24 mph and was after his second straight victory. The race was also the 1,000th race in NHRA history. LAS VEGAS – Steve Torrence picked up his 50th career Top Fuel win and moved a step closer to his fourth straight world championship, rolling to the victory on Sunday during the Dodge//SRT NHRA Nationals presented by Pennzoil at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.Ĭruz Pedregon (Funny Car), Dallas Glenn (Pro Stock) and Steve Johnson (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also won at the 19th of 20 races during the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series season and the sixth race in the Countdown to the Championship playoffs.
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