Countdown update: Going to new Hights
hen the calendar turned from April to May, defending
W Funny Car champion Robert Hight was in ninth place, 238
points behind teammate and team owner John Force.
Fast-forward three races and four weeks later, and Hight has
moved up all the way to second place and is just 49 points behind Force. That’s what three
straight wins will do for you. It’s reminiscent of the move Hight made in last year’s Countdown
presented by to 1, when he rode the hottest car in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series to the
championship after beginning the Countdown to 1 in 10th place. At the other end of the Funny
Car standings, Jeff Arend and the DHL team shaved 43 points off of their deficit and are now
only three rounds shy of passing Del Worsham for the 10th and final playoff berth in Funny Car,
which would put them in position to repeat Hight’s impossible run to the 2009 championship.
NHRA signs marketing partnership There was very little movement in Top Fuel in Topeka. In Pro Stock, Rickie Jones strung together
NHRA has signed a marketing another impressive weekend, winning on a pair of holeshots to move around Bob Yonke and
partnership with Honda Power into ninth place. Just two races ago, Jones was in 13th place, and now he’s within eight points
Equipment, a division of American of eighth-place Rodger Brogdon and 62 points of seventh-place Jason Line, a former NHRA Full
Honda Motor Co. Inc. As part of the Throttle Series world champion.
agreement, Honda Power
Equipment will provide Indy tickets on sale now using feature-added software
NHRA with portable
generators for use at NHRA
Full Throttle Drag Racing Tickets for the
Series events as well as at
each of its seven geographic
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What you need to know this week
division offices and all of
its owned and operated Oil are now on
racing facilities throughout sale to the general Upcoming events
the U.S. In return, NHRA public. The 2010 Mac Tools U.S. Nationals marks the first
O’Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis event to utilize Route 66 Raceway
will provide Honda Power Chicago (June 11-13)
Equipment with multiple NHRATix.com to sell race tickets. Utilizing ExtremeTix
exposure platforms, software, NHRATix.com provides a number of benefits
previously unavailable for Mac Tools U.S. Nationals Houston Raceway Park
including an on-site display
customers, including the ability to select specific seats Houston (June 11-13)
at NHRA Full Throttle Drag
Racing Series events as well online, the ability to print tickets at home at no expense, and
as a presence on the ability to e-mail tickets to friends attending an event. Top Gun Raceway
NHRA.com, the official Instead of paying a per-ticket service fee, customers will pay Fallon, Nev. (June 11-13)
website of NHRA. a single, low fee for each order placed.