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POMONA, Calif. (Feb. 9, 2008) – Rod Fuller qualified his David Powers-owned Caterpillar dragster in the No. 10 position Saturday afternoon at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona with a weekend-best pass of 4.539-seconds.
The six-time NHRA Top Fuel winner, who narrowly missed earning the Top Fuel championship last year, posted his best run of the weekend on Friday afternoon using a Rob Flynn tune-up to clock a pass of 4.539 seconds at 327.51 mph. He also drove to an opening run of 4.558 seconds on Thursday. Fuller’s CAT-backed rail lost traction on both attempts on Saturday.
“We’ve had some adversity this weekend,” Fuller said. “We tried to make our car more consistent. Maybe we have to ask ourselves why we’d change a fast car? I have all the confidence in my crew that they’ll make the changes and we’ll go some rounds and contend to win this race.”
Fuller will face off against No. 7 qualifier David Grubnic when Top Fuel eliminations begin at 11 a.m. (PT) at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona . Fuller’s teammate Antron Brown earned the pole this weekend with a run of 4.495-seconds.
Headquartered in Houston with race operations located in Brownsburg , Ind. , David Powers Motorsports fields the two-car Top Fuel operation of drivers Rod Fuller and Antron Brown. DPM proudly represents racing partners Matco Tools, Caterpillar, Valvoline, Toyota , Forward Sports Marketing, Goodyear, FRAM, Autolite, Ringer’s Gloves, and Go Fast Sports.
Q1 4.558 ET, 325.30 MPH No. 9
Q2 4.539 ET, 327.51 MPH No. 9
Q3 5.146 ET, 187.36 MPH No. 9
Q4 11.494 ET, 71.31 MPH No. 10
FULLER DRIVES CATERPILLAR DRAGSTER TO NO. 10 SPOT AT POMONA
POMONA, Calif. (Feb. 9, 2008) – Rod Fuller qualified his David Powers-owned Caterpillar dragster in the No. 10 position Saturday afternoon at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona with a weekend-best pass of 4.539-seconds.
The six-time NHRA Top Fuel winner, who narrowly missed earning the Top Fuel championship last year, posted his best run of the weekend on Friday afternoon using a Rob Flynn tune-up to clock a pass of 4.539 seconds at 327.51 mph. He also drove to an opening run of 4.558 seconds on Thursday. Fuller’s CAT-backed rail lost traction on both attempts on Saturday.
“We’ve had some adversity this weekend,” Fuller said. “We tried to make our car more consistent. Maybe we have to ask ourselves why we’d change a fast car? I have all the confidence in my crew that they’ll make the changes and we’ll go some rounds and contend to win this race.”
Fuller will face off against No. 7 qualifier David Grubnic when Top Fuel eliminations begin at 11 a.m. (PT) at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona . Fuller’s teammate Antron Brown earned the pole this weekend with a run of 4.495-seconds.
Headquartered in Houston with race operations located in Brownsburg , Ind. , David Powers Motorsports fields the two-car Top Fuel operation of drivers Rod Fuller and Antron Brown. DPM proudly represents racing partners Matco Tools, Caterpillar, Valvoline, Toyota , Forward Sports Marketing, Goodyear, FRAM, Autolite, Ringer’s Gloves, and Go Fast Sports.
Q1 4.558 ET, 325.30 MPH No. 9
Q2 4.539 ET, 327.51 MPH No. 9
Q3 5.146 ET, 187.36 MPH No. 9
Q4 11.494 ET, 71.31 MPH No. 10
