Auto world 4gear nhra david grubnic optima batteries top fuel. Schumacher and nobile sidelined at nhra winternationals. Forces strong in fridays qualifying sessions at springnationals. Featuring popular brands like amt, mpc, polar lights, auto world, johnny lightning, racing champions, mini metals and more. The team had planned to set records at bonneville as well, but the event was rained out two years in a row.
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. 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. David grubnic takes off during qualifying at the nhra oreilly. How does nhra top fuel driver dave grubnic and his crew stay in great racing form. Not a book, but the best drag racing magazine out there. Top fuel winner brittany force right is congratulated by runner up steve.
Youre in class for two days, learning out of a book. Valentines chunky liftaflap board book holly berrybyrd. David grubnic crew chief stringer performance linkedin. 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. Hight became the first racer to collect three consecutive no. 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. 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. Nhra nationals at maple grove raceway saturday qualifying results, sunday elimination pairings. 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. 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. Nhra nationals at maple grove raceway saturday qualifying. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover davids. Schumachers pace, top fuel dragster hard to match houston.
Points leaders the topeka capitaljournal, may 22, 2015. 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. Twotime top fuel world champ dixon powered his skytel dragster to a 4. See more ideas about top fuel dragster, top fuel and drag racing. Gainesville, fl both robert hight and brittany force made history saturday night when they secured their no. David grubnic auto world authentics 124 2012 optima batteries. A chat with nhra top fuel drag racing star brittany force forbes. Spencer massey top fuel, mike neff funny car, allen johnson pro stock, matt smith pro stock motorcycle last winners. After a slow start to the season, force came alive in gainesville, qualifying no. Feb 12, 2012 david grubnic takes off during qualifying at the nhra oreilly winternationals at pomona in his optima batteriessponsored top fuel dragster. Brittany force sets top fuel record in qualifying at reading.
Grubnic joins jfr after leading clay millican to a careerbest thirdplace finish in the top fuel ranks last season. Russian criminal tattoo encyclopaedia volume iii russian criminal tattoo encyclopaedia postcards cccp cook book. Among wellknown drivers not racing this weekend mainly due to the inability to find sponsors are. But it was her run from saturday that will be featured in the nhra history books.
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. 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.
Sep 15, 2019 nhra nationals at maple grove raceway saturday qualifying results, sunday elimination pairings. Optimasponsored drag racer, david grubnic ready to. Apr 04, 2014 grubnic scored the most recent of his three career national event top fuel victories at heartland park topeka in 2012. Schumacher goes to the second spot with top speed of the meet and kalitta improves over his previous best by a whole thousandth. He was the top qualifier, won the race with a trackrecord time of 6. 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. David grubnic drives the optima batteries top fuel dragster on the nhra mello yello drag racing series.
Brittany force sets top fuel record in qualifying at reading racer. The dragtime news 2012 nhra supernationals, englishtown nj. David grubnic defeated melanie troxel to win top fuel. Auto racing nhra spring nationals yesterdays results at houston raceway park. The big secret of nhra top fuel drag racing revealed by david grubnic of candlewood suites duration. Fuelbook has been helping the trucking community save money with millions of fuel searches every year. Top fuel news newspapers books scholar jstor july 2019 learn how and when to remove this template. View david grubnics profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Auto world 4gear nhra david grubnic optima batteries top. Brittany force breaks nhra national top fuel time record. 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. David grubnic dominates the speed sheet in top fuel nhra.
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Millican, capps and laughlin take home wallys in the. That is 100 percent david grubnic doing his thing, millican said, referring to his crew chief, who is also a former top fuel driver. The kalitta motorsports optima batteries top fuel dragster was raced by david grubnic during the 2012 nhra full throttle season. Hes had his share of ups and downs and sunday being fathers day didnt make. Feb 25, 2008 sunday at auto club raceway pomona, calif. 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. Nhra nationals schumacher blazes to win the seattle times.
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. 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. For brittany force, the family business has been quite good. Australian tuner david grubnics name doesnt appear in the nhra record book but his handiwork is all over it. Top fuel dragsters are the quickest accelerating racing cars in the world and the fastest. Grubnic is in 12th place in mello yello top fuel championship points, only 69 points away from reentering the top ten.
The defending top fuel world champion brittany force qualified second after running 3. Just minutes before kalittas recordsetting run, david grubnic held the top mark of 3. Im absolutely thrilled for donnie bender, crew chief, dixon said of his secondyear tuner. Grubnic finished 11th in points in 20, a season in which he posted his 10th. Army team have a rocket ship of a car and a highly organized operation. 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. It has been our mission to become the very best fuel price solution in the industry for. Steve torrence sits in the second spot in top fuel with an et of 3. Another unique item for the discriminating motorsports collector. See more ideas about nhra drag racing, drag racing and racing. Join facebook to connect with david grubnic and others you may know. In 253 previous top fuel starts, the energetic drummonds, tenn. Denver native melanie troxel is on pace to become the first woman to win the nhras top fuel title since shirley muldowney in 1982.
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. The 27 yearold just purchased her own top fuel dragster, a huge step towards her goal of owning her own top fuel racing operation. Brittany force records quickest pass in nhra history at reading. By keeping their uniforms sparkly clean and their bodies.
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David grubnic dominates the speed sheet in top fuel nhra nhra national hot rod. Auto world david grubnic optima, top fuel dragster, yellow. David grubnic is the driver of the optima batteriessponsored top fuel dragster, fielded by kalitta motorsports in the nhra. Ap brittany force broke the nhra national top fuel time record saturday in qualifying for the mopar express lane nhra national.
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