That Steve Torrence run was jaw dropping! They have ran a little faster before but as you said the conditions were poor. I’m amazed that anyone can be that dominant in today’s top fuel.
Hogan and Legana have this car on kill.
No doubt, havent seen crowds like that in a while
My guess would be sponsors are concerned about more problems from COVID, been a really messed up year
13 Fuel Diggers. Laughlin, Passey didn't make it pass the water box. Pruett broke on the burnout.
Chris King attempted to run but had to shut off prior to the burnout. Bandimere has had low car counts for years. The good years would usually give us 17 TF cars and maybe 19 FC cars. This was expected due to the lower number of touring cars this year. Three top 10 fuel cars opted not to run Bandimere (Billy, Ashley and Hart), otherwise we would have had a full TF field. This has been a problem for years in Denver and tracks that are up North. Seems like Epping, Seattle and Brainard are usually in the same boat.
Looks like Billy and Hart are going to skip Sonoma too.
As far as I know, Billy was never a full pull car like Steve's, and Hart is brand new and wasn't planning a full pull but rather is building his program toward that.
With only 2-3 qualifiers at most races this year, I noticed a shift in how these teams make these runs. Seems that the bigger teams are being more conservative on the Friday night runs, trying not to overpower the track...thus, going into weak shake and losing the run. Hogan/Lagana don't seem to employ this methodI think the racetrack was better then the racecars most of them left ok but if u don't keep that momentum going and take too much timing out
especially at nite it will shake if the sun was out i bet most of them would of made it past that spot ...tomorrow will b better and no matter what
everybody runs on Sunday !!
