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NHRA Story » NHRA Countdown teleconfernce transcript:Antron Brown and Tony Schumacher
QUOTE:Q: Tony, concerning new points, new qualifying for points, does it favor certain kind of teams or drivers or is it equal across the board?
Schumacher: That's a good question. Probably different in each class. In Top Fuel, I would say it's fairly equal, and I'll tell you why. There are so many cars running within hundredths of a second. Maybe six or seven cars, and it's no longer that one car going fast and everyone else just trying to figure it out. There are a numerous amount of cars just running similar.
So it's going to be about, even at the back of the pack, at each run, to be able to know what you've got to do and go out there and just try to sneak that quick run in each and every time for those points. And I think the points will matter. I think Top Fuel is going to come down to just a massive battle at the end.
I kind of wish they did one more thing. I kind of wish that on race day, low e.t. of each round got points. You know what, Funny Car would be fun to watch, the guys that stuff the car in real deep would be giving up points every time they do it [inaudible] where Top Fuel most of the drivers, fairly thin; some don't. But I would like to see that. I would like to see where it's down to the battle and a race where you got a couple extra bonus points and you could even get beat and get points. It would be kind of neat to see.
Overall, it's surprising that they came out with it right now where they have to get used to it with six races to go, but I'm OK with it. I think we are one of the cars. Antron has one of the cars, Dixon has one of the cars; we are all going to benefit from that at some point during the season. It's a matter of who can do it four times in each weekend in qualifying and can really add up the points quickly.
............................it's definitely something that Dean Antonelli can capitalize on!
Ashley Force...............................2009 NHRA Funny Car Champion!
QUOTE:Q: Tony, concerning new points, new qualifying for points, does it favor certain kind of teams or drivers or is it equal across the board?
Schumacher: That's a good question. Probably different in each class. In Top Fuel, I would say it's fairly equal, and I'll tell you why. There are so many cars running within hundredths of a second. Maybe six or seven cars, and it's no longer that one car going fast and everyone else just trying to figure it out. There are a numerous amount of cars just running similar.
So it's going to be about, even at the back of the pack, at each run, to be able to know what you've got to do and go out there and just try to sneak that quick run in each and every time for those points. And I think the points will matter. I think Top Fuel is going to come down to just a massive battle at the end.
I kind of wish they did one more thing. I kind of wish that on race day, low e.t. of each round got points. You know what, Funny Car would be fun to watch, the guys that stuff the car in real deep would be giving up points every time they do it [inaudible] where Top Fuel most of the drivers, fairly thin; some don't. But I would like to see that. I would like to see where it's down to the battle and a race where you got a couple extra bonus points and you could even get beat and get points. It would be kind of neat to see.
Overall, it's surprising that they came out with it right now where they have to get used to it with six races to go, but I'm OK with it. I think we are one of the cars. Antron has one of the cars, Dixon has one of the cars; we are all going to benefit from that at some point during the season. It's a matter of who can do it four times in each weekend in qualifying and can really add up the points quickly.
............................it's definitely something that Dean Antonelli can capitalize on!
Ashley Force...............................2009 NHRA Funny Car Champion!
