Melanie Troxel, who has three NHRA victories in top fuel competition, won the funny car title at the 8th O’Reilly NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Dragway in Bristol, Tenn.
With her victory in the O’Reilly Thunder Valley Nationals, she becomes the first woman to win NHRA races in both the funny car and top-fuel classes.
MADISON, Ill., – The fastest female in the history of the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, Hillary Will, driver of the 8,000-horsepower KB Racing, LLC Top Fuel dragster, is hoping her team’s stellar performances this season will translate into her first NHRA Top Fuel event championship at this weekend’s, May 2-4, annual running of the O’Reilly NHRA Midwest Nationals at Gateway Int’l Raceway in Madison, Ill., just across the Mississippi River from the St. Louis city limits.
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JFR RACE REPORT
2008 NHRA Race Summary
6th race of 2008 season
28th annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals
Atlanta Dragway, Commerce, Georgia
April 24-27, 2008
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Castrol/JFR Highlights: Ashley Force wins historic first Funny Car title….John Forces races to final round en route to 999th career round wins….Three JFR drivers in Top 5 of POWERade point standings.
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ASHLEY FORCE MAKES HISTORY AS FIRST FEMALE FUNNY CAR WINNER
Beats Dad in Storybook Final Round to Win Summit Southern Nationals
ATLANTA, Ga. – Ashley Force put a new face on Funny Car drag racing Sunday by becoming the first woman to win a national race in a category that once was considered the last bastion of male superiority.
The 25-year-old did so with a flair for the dramatic, beating her father, drag racing icon John Force, in the final round of the 28th annual Summit Racing Equipment Southern Nationals to deny him his 1,000 winning round in his 500th NHRA tour event.
Nancy Matter Racing regrouped after a transmission gremlin sidelined the team from qualifying at their season opener in Houston two weeks ago. The team spent the necessary hours rebuilding everything to ensure success at their second outing for the Lucas Oil Division 4 racing event in Ennis, Texas this past weekend. Their transmission gremlin was defeated without any real significant reason why, but this IS drag racing, and sometimes there are no definitive answers to specific questions.
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LAS VEGAS, Nev. – At The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, a track on which she made history last fall as the first woman to race in an NHRA Funny Car final, Ashley Force tries to take her burgeoning drag racing career one critical step further this week when she climbs back behind the wheel of her 330 mile-an-hour Castrol GTX® Ford Mustang to compete in the ninth annual SummitRacing.com Nationals. Read More
FADAL HOSTS ASHLEY FORCE, ROBERT HIGHT AT WESTEC ‘08
-Drag Racing Stars Meet Fans, Speak to Nat’l Machine Tool Assoc.-
YORBA LINDA — On April 1st while most of the general public was concerned about having pranks pulled on them John Force Racing drivers Ashley Force and Robert Hight were pressing the flesh as guests of FADAL at the 2008 WESTEC Show at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
The drag racing tandem met with fans, posed for pictures and talked about the previous weekends NHRA O’Reilly Spring Nationals at Houston Raceway Park.
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Transmission Gremlin Forces DNQ for Matter’s Season Opener
BAYTOWN, Texas – The Top Alcohol Funny Car Team of Nancy Matter had hoped for better results at the 21st Annual running of the O’Reilly Spring Nationals in Baytown this past weekend. The team, armed with a complete new arsenal of parts, was plagued with transmission issues for each pass keeping them from qualifying within the 16-car field.
“We made some significant changes in the fuel system prior to going into this race”, stated Matter. “On the first pass, when the car launched, it shook and bounced around a bit but I opted to drive through it. Read More
There could be a new speed record established for alternative fuelled cars at Shakespeare County Raceway’s opening meet of the season following successful tethered tests of a unique rocket powered dragster; ‘Laffin Gas’ at a remote farm in Northamptonshire.
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21st Annual O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Spring Nationals
Houston Raceway Park, Houston, Tex.
March 28-30, 2008
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Castrol/JFR Highlights: Ashley Force advanced to the second final round of her career…John Force reached the semi-finals for the second time in 2008… both Ashley and John moved up in the Funny Car point standings to No.5 and No, 6, respectively…pre-race points leader Robert Hight failed to qualify but only fell to 4th place in the points standings.
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Pro Stock star Enders unveils brand-new approach to fund her race team
HOUSTON (March 26) — Pro Stock driver Erica Enders has taken control of her racing future by assuming the responsibilities of vice president of marketing of Master Formula Xtreme Polishes, Waxes, Cleaners, and Sealers. The agreement will allow the most successful female Pro Stock racer of all-time to resume her driving career in an Allen Johnson-powered Stratus R/T.
Unlike traditional motorsports marketing programs that promise sales results in exchange for up-front sponsorship dollars, Enders plans to use her unique familiarity with millions of race fans and the business community to bolster the Southern California-based Read More
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