It met Leah Pritchett and Brittany Force, to find out which of the two racers finally open his account victories in professional drag racing. Equally battle that lasted more than four seconds, with a minimum margin prevailed pilotessa Bob Vandergriff Racing team. Against this background, we cooked up a short list of four pilots, who during this season there is every chance, in our opinion, to put an end to a series of failures and earn their first statuette Wally Parks in his career.
Clay Millican has achieved outstanding results of IHRA, chalked up fifty-six wins and six league titles, speaking in the class Top Fuel. However, at the event's most prestigious championship in the racing world stubbornly driven in a straight line to the veteran: the motor will order to live long, arranging colorful fireworks in the end, the problem with the hook will cause another defeat, the mechanics will not be able to rebuild the car properly before the race. Anyway, Millikan was marked by nine times in the final, but again and again proved nimbler competitors, faster or simply luckier. In any case, the star of IHRA, as well as his entire team, the experience not take their dregster more than competitive, and the sponsorship of six-time champion is not offended. So we very much hope that in the foreseeable future, the pilot still will change the course of history and «soak» account, not bringing it to absolutely joyless figure 0–10.
In this championship the most titled riders daughter in the history of NHRA already in the second stage of the national championship confidently reached the final, thanks largely to the efforts of a new chief mechanic Brian Hughes and experience Alan Johnson, who in the past year due to financial difficulties was forced to dissolve his own team and this season is acting as adviser John Force Racing. During his career, Brittany seven times participated in the ultimate showdown Event, but the podium has not risen. The fact that Miss Force will sooner or later will achieve the desired result, no doubt, the only question is whether it will be able to beat his father, who got the first trophy after only nine defeats in the finals.
Chad Head despite his age — new to drag racing. And a couple of years as a regular pilot in the Funny Car class he twice reached the last round in the races Shootout, but triumphant event became his opponents. Final 2015 in Reading, where the Head met with the undisputed favorite of the season Jack Beckman, went down in history as the fastest final in fifty years of division. Both riders overcame tysyachefutovuyu distance for very low 3.9 seconds, but the more experienced Beckman then was quicker at the start and won his next victory only thanks to the superiority of the reaction time. And if the performance of the rider to add a little bit of luck, his appearance at the awards ceremony is unlikely someone will surprise, because in contrast to many pilots in his arsenal is dregster who with surprising stability of leaves of four seconds. Just as long as it was not enough.
Bo Butner finished the qualifying session in first place in Phoenix this year, much to surprise the public on the background of «one gate» dominant team KB Racing. Does he have a real chance to develop your success? Definitely answer to this question is difficult, but given the «baggage» of fifteen wins Sportsman classes and the fact that not all the teams were able to adequately adjust to the new regulations, we can say with confidence that this season in the only professional atmospheric division is possible. Including the first triumph in the class Butner Pro Stock.
P.S. After two stages of all the drivers on our list, with the exception of Chad Heda, very confidently settled on the top lines of the table (Brittany Force — 3rd place, Clay Millican — 4th place, Bo Butner — 3rd place, Chad Head — 9th place) and protrude from the event to the event very smoothly and at a good level. Well, if our predictions come true — time will tell. Stay tuned.
