MCBRIDE BLOCKS OUT STARTING LINE GAMES
October 7, 2008
The boys weren’t paying nice with Angie McBride on Sunday.
McBride has been a strong player of late, most recently scoring a semi-final finish at the NHRA Fallnationals in Dallas, Texas.
Those kinds of performances will make the competition take notice.
In her first round match against Steve Johnson, the two-time 2008 winner rolled in and lit both bulbs. He sat and even stared over McBride. She never wavered in her routine. Neither did she stage.
Once he backed out of the second bulb, shortly thereafter McBride rolled in and lit her top bulb. Johnson fouled.
McBride let it be known from the start that she knew what Johnson was doing and wasn’t going to fall for it.
“Today, we are going to run my race,” McBride added.
She met up with Andrew Hines in the quarters and the two engaged in a lengthy staging battle. Hines eventually broke the :58 second battle of determination and staged first. He also red-lighted.
This marked the second time in as many races that she’s beaten Hines in the early rounds.
Her tactics of beating the competition at their game led Hines to utter the telltale phrase at the end of the track as he quipped, “You don’t give a damn about anybody.”
She responded, “I just do what I am told.”
McBride made her way into the semi-finals for the second consecutive week, but her raceday however would soon come to an end as Craig Treble, eventual race winner beat her in round three.
“The last few weeks have been amazing,” said McBride. “I knew I had to just focus on the job at hand and whatever happens would just happen. I was going to give it all I could and hopefully things would turn out in my favor, and they did. We have taken out some big hitters the last few weeks and it is the greatest feeling ever. To sit with Andrew in a staging battle that long and come out on top is just the greatest feeling ever. I am so excited and I can’t wait for Vegas.”
HILLARY WILL’S BAHRAIN LOOK
September 11, 2008
New colors, new sponsorship, new partnership, new race track
Under the colors of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Hillary Will, driving KB Racing’s Top Fuel dragster, will give the car its inaugural appearance at this weekend’s NHRA event at Charlotte, NC.
Because She Played… Erica Ortiz, Professional Drag Racer (Interview)
September 8, 2008
About a week ago, Erica Ortiz e-mailed me to let me know that she picked me as one of her top 5 favorite blogs for Blog Day 2008. I was honored and thanked her for reading my blog.
Nancy Matter Racing Riding High Into the Heartland
June 2, 2008
Topeka, KS–Following a successful outing at the recent LODRS event at Houston Motorsports Park, the Drag Strip Girl and Applied Tool Supply-backed TA/FC Team of Nancy Matter would like to keep the momentum rolling through the O’Reilly NHRA Summer Nationals in Topeka, Kan.
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Hillary Will Picks-up First NHRA Victory Of Her Young Career At Topeka
June 2, 2008
TOPEKA, Kan.– The question of “when” for Hillary Will has been answered – It’s today. Sunday at Heartland Park Topeka in Topeka, Kans., Top Fuel rising star Hillary Will, driver of the 8,000-horsepower KB Racing, LLC Top Fuel dragster, picked up the first NHRA national event of her young career at the O’Reilly NHRA Summer Nationals, the 9th event of the 2008 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, with a final round victory over Larry Dixon, 4.744 seconds, 304.53 mph to 4.960 seconds, 281.42 mph.Will becomes the eighth female Top Fuel winner in NHRA history and now joins other auto racing female winners in what has become the year of the woman racer so far in 2008. Recently, Ashley Force became the first female event winner in the NHRA Funny Car class, and Danica Patrick became the first woman to win in the Indy Car Series earlier this year. Two weeks ago Melanie Troxel became the first woman to win event titles in both of the NHRA’s nitro-fueled classes – Top Fuel and Funny Car.
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Hillary Will Feeling The Need For Speed In The Heartland
May 28, 2008
TOPEKA, Kan.,– NHRA rising star Hillary Will, the fastest female in the history of professional drag racing and driver of the KB Racing, LLC Top Fuel dragster, is eager to climb back behind the wheel of her 334 plus-mph, nitro-fueled rail runner for this weekend’s, May 30-June 1, annual running of the O’Reilly NHRA Summer Nationals at Heartland Park Topeka in Topeka, Kansas.
Will, along with several other NHRA stars, spent this past Memorial Day weekend not only remembering those who have fought and gave the ultimate sacrifice to keep the United States free, but also helping to promote the inaugural national event that will take place in Concord, N.C., just a few miles from Charlotte, in September.
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Matter Earns Semi-Final Finish At Houston Raceway Park
May 27, 2008
Following three rounds of qualifying, Nancy Matter qualified in the seventh spot of the eight-car field. Matter Racing had very little data to work with, as the car never performed to its potential, encountering severe tire shake on each pass. “On our second qualifier, we shook so hard that it sheered all but one blower stud off and lifted the supercharger”, noted Matter. “We softened the car a lot for the third run just to get it down the track. We went a little too far, however, we were still in the field, so we were pretty happy to be running on Sunday”. [Read more]
Drag racer Melanie Troxel extends historic run for NHRA women
May 20, 2008
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.
ASHLEY FORCE MAKES HISTORY AS FIRST FEMALE FUNNY CAR WINNER
April 28, 2008
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.
Matter Runs Career Best, Qualifies #4 at Dallas
April 22, 2008
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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