An already somber NHRA Supernationals was pushed back a day due to persistent rain showers Sunday at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park.
Ongoing showers forced NHRA officials to delay final eliminations for the NHRA SuperNationals until Monday morning at 10 a.m.
The weather allowed for three rounds to be completed in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series event before rain began to fall around 3:45 p.m. AHN | All Headline News
Antron Brown will meet Larry Dixon in the Top Fuel final. Other final-round matchups: Bob Tasca vs. Del Worsham (Funny Car), points leader Mike Edwards vs. rookie Shane Gray (Pro Stock) and Michael Phillips vs. Steve Johnson (Pro Stock Motorcycle). USA Today
Dixon and his Jason McCulloch-led Al-Anabi team locked up their spot in the Countdown to the Championship playoffs in round two, doing that with a big win over archrival Tony Schumacher, 3.91 to 3.95, which was sandwiched by wins over Steve Chrisman, who broke on his burnout, and No. 2 qualifier Brandon Bernstein, who reached at least the semifinals for the fifth time in the last six races with his Copart dragster. The final round will be the 98th of Dixon’s fine career.
Tasca, runner-up earlier this year in Gainesville, drove his special-edition FordParts.com Mustang to his fifth career nitro Funny Car final with victories over a pair of fellow Ford pilots, Ashley Force Hood and her father, John, then ran low e.t. of eliminations in the semifinals with a 4.154 to end Chicago winner Matt Hagan’s win streak at six rounds. Tasca is seeking his third nitro Funny Car win and fifth overall victory.
Worsham, who scored his second career win at this event way back in 1991 and won it again in 2005, reached his first final round of the season and his first since his victory at last year’s Richmond, Va., event with his Dickie Venables-tuned Al-Anabi Toyota. Worsham worked his way past a pair of world champs in Cruz Pedregon and No. 1 qualifier Robert Hight with a pair of low 4.2-second passes, then turned up the wick to a 4.180 in the semifinals to defeat Jack Beckman’s close 4.185 to reach his 39th career final. NHRA
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