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Neff retains early edge as favorite in rookie-of-the-year battle with Tasca
Last year, Ashley Force easily earned the Auto Club Road to the Future Award for rookie of the year after proving her mettle on and off the track in a tumultuous season. This season, voters are likely focused again on the Funny Car category as Force’s teammate Mike Neff (pictured) and another Ford driver, Bob Tasca III, battle to make the best impression and earn the best results during their first season as NHRA POWERade Series drivers.
Five racers are eligible for this year’s Auto Club Road to the Future Award: Neff, Tasca, Steve Torrence (Top Fuel), Rickie Jones (Pro Stock), and Junior Pippin (Pro Stock Motorcycle).
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| Female rider Thompson will make Pro Stock Motorcycle debut in Indy Valerie Thompson, a two-time Bonneville land-speed record holder who has spent the last two years in the All Harley Drag Racing Association’s V-Rod Destroyer class, will make her Pro Stock Motorcycle debut at the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals. She'll join a roster that includes four other female riders: Angelle Sampey, Karen Stoffer, Peggy Llewellyn, and Angie McBride. |
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| New top-end safety system at O’Reilly Raceway Park NHRA announced Tuesday that it has modified the top end at O’Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis, where the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals will be contested this weekend. The changes were made by NHRA after consultation with the racing community and taking into account the facility layout to assist in keeping race vehicles at the top end of the racetrack within the confines of the dragstrip. |
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| NHRA Mopar Hemi Challenge on tap Friday in Indy High-horsepower Mopars will take center stage at the 2008 NHRA Mopar Hemi Challenge during Super Stock class eliminations Friday at the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals. The Hemi Challenge has become one of the premier events for NHRA Sportsman competitors. This year, a field of close to 30 SS/AH entries is expected to compete for the $10,000 bonus from Mopar. |
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| Special Mac Tools U.S. Nationals Daily DRAGSTER section Daily DRAGSTER, a staple of the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals, will publish online only this year after a 20-year run as a print-only publication at the Big Go. The DRAGSTER staff will now cover the event through a series of informative blog notebooks written in Indy that will supplement NHRA.com’s traditionally thorough coverage of the event. The first entries already are posted. |
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| Voting begins in final round of Favorite Race Car Ever poll After weeks of nominations and preliminary voting, the field is set for the final round of The DRAGSTER Insider's Favorite Race Car Ever poll: two cars each from Don Garlits, the Blue Max, and "Jungle Jim" Liberman, plus The Freight Train, Beebe & Mulligan, Stone, Woods & Cook, "the Snake," Sox & Martin, "Wild Willie" Borsch, the Chi-Town Hustler, Warren-Coburn-Miller, Grumpy's Toy, and the Little Red Wagon. Cast your vote now! |
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| KB Racing to field Wilson Manifolds Pro Stocker in Indy At the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals, the KB Racing team of Greg Anderson and Jason Line will field a third Pro Stocker, which will be run by the team’s induction specialist, Wilson Manifolds of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Robbie Mansfield, an employee of Wilson Manifold, will be the driver. Line said that the operation of the third car is scheduled for this event only. |
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Aug. 31
12:30 a.m.-1:30 a.m.
Qualifying
Aug. 31
11:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Qualifying
Aug. 31
5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Qualifying
Sept. 1
12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
Eliminations
Sept. 1
7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
Eliminations
Sept. 5
2:00 a.m.-4:00 a.m.
Repeat Eliminations
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“We’re going to Indy just ready to do our job, focusing on that first qualifying run on Friday night, seeing if we can knock it out of the park.”
Kurt Johnson, on his Indy game plan
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“We know we can't win the POWERade championship so our plan now is to try to salvage the year by winning the U.S. Nationals.
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