Countdown To One is gaining momentum, and if the locomotive brakes failed with racing at full speed to its logical conclusion. It was in Reading recognized guru in the quarter-mile races were promised a new record in the class Top Fuel (TF).
Antron Brown very confidently won eight times champion Tony Schumacher in the final than secured their lead, becoming the first driver in the history of Countdown To One, scored three wins in a row. Brown throughout the Event, in contrast to many of the participants demonstrated a consistently high level, indicating that the most correct approach of all members of his team to prepare dregster.
Schumacher in the first round of the Cause Vorshema repeated the feat in St. Louis, in spite of the completely destroyed the engine, he managed to beat JR Todd. Once opened, it turned out that everything in the interior of the engine passed the discharge of useless scrap metal.
It is also incredibly pleased Brittany Force, which is only once this season, lit up in the final. Daughter shestnadtsatikratny champion won the first place in qualifying for it with the best result of his career (3.707) and reached the semifinals, that output has resulted for her in third place standings. And it proves once again that stability is more important episodic podiums on individual events.
In the classroom Funny Car (FC) was what all been waiting for: Jack Beckman, who spoke very badly in the final the event, he returned to the game. And back, simultaneously breaking the record Cases Vorshema that after the first round went to the commentator's booth to help to broadcast. 3,897 seconds — this was a new world record time of passage of 1000-foot distance. By the way, Beckman for the third time this season rewrites history. Yes, Matt Hagan was twice faster than these figures, but never once was able to confirm the result. Before the final heap Chad Head — Jack Beckman was the fastest in the history of class: both drivers crossed the finish line in a very low 3.9 seconds, but the reaction time Beckman decided the outcome of the fight in his favor (holeshot win).
John Force Racing team at full strength in the first round to retrain in the audience, as well as Matt Hagan, who lost to John Bodzheku obvious outsider in the early knockout rounds. It is worth defending champion and second place in the competition among the pilots, which now occupies Beckman with little cooling from the Cause Vorshema.
But the most spectacular arrival became a duel between Alexis DeZhoria all the same Beckmann. Both drivers from the start tried in vain to cling to the surface of the strip and keep the car on the trajectory repeatedly fully releasing the throttle, but the victory went to the new record holder, who managed only a fourth (!) Attempts to catapult your dregster to finish.
The hero of the last Event Drew Skillman said the first place in qualifying, but was defeated in the first round of the V Gaines, who at the end of the season could not even get into the playoffs. And another outsider regular season Bo Butner famously dealt with the class leader in Pro Stock (PS) Erica Enders Stephens. Quite clearly I made this time continues to occupy second place Greg Anderson, who without much difficulty reached the final, where the reaction time Chris McGahee put an end to his ambitions on the next Wally this year. As a result, at the end of NHRA Keystone Nationals Eric continues to hold in the first place, and MakGehey Allen Johnson moved to the third line.
The number of permutations in mid-table sets answered by a serious affair in the final stage of the championship leaders crook cling to their positions, records correspond with surprising regularity, and each step can turn the situation upside down. Next stop in Dallas, just three the event, but confidence in one's victory is still as there was no and no.
