NHRA MIDWEST NATIONALS RESULTS

“The pressure is huge out here. Fortunately, I’m kind of old, I’ve been through it, experienced a lot, won some championships along the way, so you always feel like you can rise to the occasion and try to give your guys the best you can. Today was wild, we saw people out here winning on hole-shots, and guys and girls double-stepping. It’s intense, but that’s how we love it. I absolutely just dig in deep and try to work hard for these guys, and they’re doing the same thing giving me a great car.

“We had a great weekend in this American Rebel Light Beer Dodge Funny Car, nothing to hang our heads about. We did well in qualifying, picking up points, the last dog standing low qualifier on Friday night. Mike Knudsen, Phil Shuler and Alex Conaway have this car dialed in. We had to make some changes before that semi-final. I definitely don’t claim to be a crew chief, but we did stick a new supercharger on there, and maybe it had a little bit more meat than we needed it to, and it smoked the tires, didn’t go two feet. But we’re still leaving here with the points lead. This is absolutely one of the toughest championship fights in a long time. It’s going to come down to the last race in Pomona, a dog fight to the end. We’re here for it. We’re in, we’ll see what happens out here. But I know I’m not voting for anybody, I’m going to root for me and this team.”​