Posts Tagged ‘Robert Hight’

Dixon, Hight, Coughlin and Krawiec Low After Dallas NRHA Day 1

By Bram • Sep 19th, 2008 • Category: NHRA, News, Notes, Results

Jeg Coughlin (NHRA Photo)

Jeg Coughlin (NHRA Photo)

ENNIS, Texas – Larry Dixon’s up to bat with two strikes and a day to go.

At the past two events, Dixon’s qualified No. 1 on the strength of his provisional nights of qualifying. And at the last two events, he didn’t make it out of the second round on Sunday.

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Tony Schumacher Sets NHRA TF Records for Consecutive Wins and Wins In A Season, Ties Amato for Most TF Wins All-Time

By Bram • Sep 2nd, 2008 • Category: NHRA, News, Notes, Racer, Your Series. Your Driver.

NHRA Top Fuel champion driver Tony Schumacher (NHRA photo)

NHRA Top Fuel champion driver Tony Schumacher (NHRA photo)

Robert Hight, Dave Connolly, and Steve Johnson round out winners at 54th Mac Tools U.S. Nationals

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Five-time champion Tony Schumacher capped off a historic performance at the 54th Mac Tools U.S. Nationals Sunday with his decisive final-round win over longtime foe Doug Kalitta.

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Ashley Force Leads NHRA U.S. Smokeless Showdown Qualifiers in Pursuit of $100,000; First Woman to Qualify for F.C. Bonus Event

By Bram • Aug 21st, 2008 • Category: NHRA, News, Notes, Your Series. Your Driver.

 Ashley Force, Castrol GTX Ford Mustang at Work (NHRA Photo)

Ashley Force, Castrol GTX Ford Mustang at Work (NHRA Photo)

CLERMONT, Ind. – Funny Car driver Ashley Force will start from the No. 1 position in the NHRA U.S. Smokeless Showdown on Aug. 31 at O’Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis, as she goes for her first victory in the special bonus event for qualified Funny Car drivers.

Force is the first female driver to qualify for the Funny Car bonus event in NHRA history.

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NHRA — Connolly, Hight and Schumacher Earn No. 1 Spots at Seattle

By Bram • Jul 19th, 2008 • Category: NHRA, News, Notes, Results

NHRA photo KENT, Wash. – Tony Schumacher has been in the final round in Seattle every year since 2004. Out of four consecutive final rounds here, he’s won three. He looked primed to add a fifth after qualifying No. 1 Saturday at the 21st annual Schuck’s Auto Supply NHRA Nationals, piloting his U.S. Army dragster to a 3.802-second pass at 316.90 mph in prime conditions Friday for his fourth No. 1 qualifier of the season and the 51st of his career.

Robert Hight (shown left) and Dave Connolly also will lead their respective categories into Sunday’s eliminations on the power of the No. 1 qualifiers they earned during prime weather conditions of the first day of qualifying, on Friday.

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Beckman, Hight Explain How Mental Edge Can Win or Lose Race Before it Starts as POWERade Series Heads to Seattle

By Bram • Jul 15th, 2008 • Category: NHRA, News, Notes, Your Series. Your Driver.

NHRA photoKENT, Wash. – Jack Beckman (shown left) describes the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series as the “Top Gun” for race car drivers. Its categories are the fastest motorsports contests in the world; where extremity runs headlong into a deep pool of stubborn talent.

And it’s where, as rookies soon find out, being just ‘good’ doesn’t always win.

Most of the focus in the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing is, naturally, what happens during a run – the four-point-something-seconds-plus between the green light and a win light.

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Fuller, Hight, Line and Krawiec claim No. 1 qualifying honors at Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals

By Bram • Jun 28th, 2008 • Category: NHRA, News, Notes, Results

NHRA photoJohnson Drives Mopar to K&N Challenge Victory

NORWALK, Ohio – Allen Johnson drove his Dodge Stratus to the $50,000 K&N Horsepower Challenge victory Saturday at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park.

In other racing, Rod Fuller, Robert Hight, Jason Line and Eddie Krawiec claimed No. 1 qualifying positions and will lead their respective categories into tomorrow’s 11 a.m. eliminations for the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals. It is the 12th of 24 events in the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series event.

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NHRA News — Koretsky, Hight and Schumacher Top Qualifiers at Vegas

By Bram • Apr 13th, 2008 • Category: NHRA

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LAS VEGAS – Pro Stock’s Kenny Koretsky goes into race day at the top of the field today for the first time in 18 years of racing after earning his first career No. 1 qualifier at the Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

John Force, in the hunt for the 1,000th round win that will place him in the highest level of the history books, failed to qualify for the Funny Car starting line-up with his second consecutive DNQ at this event. It’s the first time in his prolific career that Force has failed to qualify at the same event two years in a row. Instead it was his teammate Robert Hight who had the luck, earning his 24th career No. 1 qualifier and the first of the season with a 4.849 at 321.27 in his last attempt in his Auto Club Ford Mustang.

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