“The testing went great, ” Scott, a 45-year old resident of Palmetto, Fla., said. “We’ve got a new race car, and we really like what it’s showing us right now. Our numbers have been getting better and we’ve certainly been running more consistently lately. We’re hoping this new car will help us continue that momentum in St. Louis and beyond. ”
Kalitta returned to the Funny Car class last season after many successful years at the helm of a Top Fuel dragster. He won the NHRA Top Fuel World Championship in 1994 and 1995 as well as 17 NHRA national event trophies, but got his first professional NHRA national event win under the carbon fiber canopy of a Funny Car in Houston in 1989.
The O’Reilly NHRA Midwest Nationals begins Friday, May 4, for the Funny Car class with one qualifying session at 5:00 p. m. (CT), and then another qualifying session at 7:30 p. m. Two more qualifying sessions follow on Saturday at 12:30 p. m. and 3:00 p. m. The top sixteen qualified cars will race Sunday in final eliminations beginning at 11:00 a. m.
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