Hight Gives Safety-Kleen Funny Car Championship
Posted by Morgan Ferguson on Mon, Nov 16, 2009 @ 10:50 AM
Tony Schumacher and the U.S. Army team won their sixth straight and seventh overall NHRA Full Throttle Series championship on Sunday by two points over
Safety-Kleen's Larry Dixon, in the narrowest margin in NHRA history. The season went south for Dixon when he smoked the tires in the semifinals and lost to Spencer Massey, giving Schumacher's team the two point advantage and the big trophy. The other two championships were decided Saturday as
Robert Hight and the Safety-Kleen John Force Racing Ford Mustang Funny Car team qualified for the race and thus scored enough points to outdistance his teammate Ashley Force Hook. In Pro Stock, Mike Edwards' team clinched their titles in qualifying over Safety-Kleen's Greg Anderson. The races in Pomona were won by Antron Brown running a 3.801 at 316.90 mph, winning for the sixth time this season over Massey, who fouled out in the Top Fuel final. In Funny car, Safety-Kleen's Mike Neff pedaled the Ford Drive One Mustang to a 5.131 at 285.05 to defeat teammate Ashley Force Hood, who was DQ'd for touching the wall. It was Neff's first career win for his John Force Racing team. In Pro Stock, Greg Anderson ran a 6.564 at 210.70 mph to defeat Kurt Johnson in the final, giving the Safety-Kleen driver his 3rd win of the season and securing his 4th straight second place finish in the points standings. Next up for the NHRA teams is some welcomed time off before returning to Pomona next February for the 50th running of the Winter Nationals.
