When asked to name the most dominant athletes this decade, who comes to mind? Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, Michael Phelps?
What about Tony Schumacher of Long Grove?
“The Sarge” has won five straight NHRA Top Fuel championships, and this weekend at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series Countdown to 1 in Pomona, Calif., he’s looking to make it six straight and seventh overall …Â Details
Larry Dixon took a one-point lead over Tony Schumacher in the Top Fuel season standings, leading qualifying Friday in the season-ending Auto Club NHRA Finals to earn three bonus points.
Dixon had a pass at 3.801 seconds at 318.99 mph on the second of three days of qualifying. Schumacher entered the day with a two-point lead, but lost traction on his second qualifying run.
“If we just wanted to call it a weekend and everyone goes home, that’s fine by me,†Dixon said … Details
Tony Schumacher and Larry Dixon entered the Full Throttle Series season finale separated by a single point. In the first round of Top Fuel qualifying Thursday, they were just a thousandth of a second apart.
Lined up side-by-side for the final pass of the first day of qualifying at the season-ending Auto Club NHRA Finals, Schumacher, the points leader, had a 3.832-second run at 316.52 mph to Dixon’s 3.833 at 314.31 … Details
Nine months ago, the biggest storyline entering the 2009 season revolved around Larry Dixon and Tony Schumacher, who had combined to win the last seven Top Fuel titles and nine of the last 10.
In what was as compelling an off-season as the NHRA had seen in some time, decorated crew chief Alan Johnson parted ways with the U.S. Army team to…Â Details