Jasmine (23 Viewers)

[Leebone]

A great day for Jasmine Salinas. I applaud her for that. Todd tuned the car very well. She made it to the final against Doug, but it's nearly impossible to beat that team. I hope she gets funding to race more NHRA events. I like her.

 

[twostep]

A great day for Jasmine Salinas. I applaud her for that. Todd tuned the car very well. She made it to the final against Doug, but it's nearly impossible to beat that team. I hope she gets funding to race more NHRA events. I like her.

She had a good shot at it but a dropped hole about 500 feet out spelled the end for her. We were rooting for her here at the house. I also hated to see Matti Gordon blow the hoops off in E1.

 

[Leebone]

My two favorite drivers are Jasmine and Maddi. These girls ROCK.

 

[I was NITRO BREATH]

Jasmine has the passion it takes to succeed. Hope the team gets some $$ to run more races. Maybe Mike will step up ....

 

[yoda]

It was interesting watching everyone on the air working REALLY hard to avoid the IHRA topic as she was going rounds. Proof that more seat time pays off.

 

[J. S.]

A great day for Jasmine Salinas. I applaud her for that. Todd tuned the car very well. She made it to the final against Doug, but it's nearly impossible to beat that team. I hope she gets funding to race more NHRA events. I like her.

Isn't the $$ to run more races up to her Dad Mike to provide funding from the family fortune? I recall he has said in the past he didn't want to deal with sponsors and that was why he was self-funded. Is that still true? I don't recall he ever made a public statement as to why he pulled out of the series early last year. Supposedly it was because his business had picked up to the point where he didn't have time? Or, did his accountant get his attention that his funds were diminishing? At any rate, she could have won yesterday as her dragster was like a bracket car, except for dropping a cylinder in the final.

 

[Rasn1320]

Isn't the $$ to run more races up to her Dad Mike to provide funding from the family fortune? I recall he has said in the past he didn't want to deal with sponsors and that was why he was self-funded. Is that still true? I don't recall he ever made a public statement as to why he pulled out of the series early last year. Supposedly it was because his business had picked up to the point where he didn't have time? Or, did his accountant get his attention that his funds were diminishing? At any rate, she could have won yesterday as her dragster was like a bracket car, except for dropping a cylinder in the final.

Think he figured out how nitro can drain your acct,prob needs a sponsor for jasmine

 

[mick]

since jasmine went off the nhra tour in spring of '25, she has repeatedly mentioned she is trying to attract partners.
i think it was easy for her to chase ihra, as they were paying more than nhra to show up and lose E1. same thing creasy, joon,
and others have mentioned. i think she still wants to do TF, and i think mike does too, but in the interim they pick their races,
so her name stays out there and relevant. yesterday paid off great.

 

[stoppro]

I think it maybe sponsors don't want to deal with mike,He is tough and takes no crap.

 

[Butch]

It was interesting watching everyone on the air working REALLY hard to avoid the IHRA topic as she was going rounds. Proof that more seat time pays off.

On the topic of seat time , this is why we need some sort of minor league. IHRA was looking like it fit the bill. But the buying spree I truly believe killed it.

 

[z28]

Think he figured out how nitro can drain your acct,prob needs a sponsor for jasmine

when he ran the car it was his money he made to spend. The culture he appears to support is that you earn your own way so Jasmine is mostly on her own to make it.

 

[James]

She was driving possessed yesterday. The car let her down in the final, and ironically, vice versa for Doug in the final.

 

[mick]

she had the slowest winning e.t. in E1, lucky to get around josh hart. her E2 and E3 she was
very consistent with her r.t.'s, ran very competitive e.t.'s, and came up against uncharacteristic bad r.t.'s from
shawn and leah. ...... wish her well again this weekend in seattle.

 

[yoda]

Remember when Mike "all of a sudden" became a force? Between AJ, a bigger chunk of $$$ being spent and Mike being fearless, all played into becoming the Perfect Storm in favor of Team Scrappers...

Could that happen again? I wouldn't bet against it.

 

[mick]

if they found some partner money, IMO they would be a top 7 player. they seem to get more out of their tuneup
than some fulltime teams.

 

[z28]

if they found some partner money, IMO they would be a top 7 player. they seem to get more out of their tuneup
than some fulltime teams.

Jasmine seems to have come in to her own.

 

[65 Goatboy]

It was interesting watching everyone on the air working REALLY hard to avoid the IHRA topic as she was going rounds. Proof that more seat time pays off.

You know they wanted to talk about her and Mike racing each other in Columbus!

 

[T.Smith]

Great weekend, but she's gotta stop with the we are poor nonsense. She's gotten some breaks along the way, and they have run well at times, embrace it and keep it moving.

 

[Joe]

You know they wanted to talk about her and Mike racing each other in Columbus!

And it was her 2nd final of the year, Dunn in March.

 

[sammi]

It makes me sad that success in professional drag racing starts with being a marketing partner.