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Force still on the comeback trail after missing out on 2008 championship
Last year, John Force staged a pretty significant comeback, recovering from the devastating March loss of his young protégé, Eric Medlen, and a slow on-track start to make the Countdown to 1, but his playoff run was over with a near-career-ending crash in Dallas. This season’s comeback was no less amazing when the 14-time NHRA Funny Car world champ defied medical odds and clambered back behind the wheel of his Castrol GTX Mustang for another shot at redemption.
Although Force again made the Countdown to 1 playoffs, the car was not all he had hoped it would be, and he even criticized his own driving. Team driver Robert Hight came within a few rounds of winning the championship, and Force finished seventh for the second straight year, which does nothing but inspire them for 2009.
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| Johnsons hire Pro Stock ace Perley as co-crew chief Jeff Perley, the highly renowned Pro Stock crew chief who worked with Kurt Johnson from 1997 to 2001 and KB Racing during all of its four world championship seasons (2003 to 2006), will be co-crew chief with Mark Ingersoll for the J&J Racing Dodge team of driver Allen Johnson and his father and engine builder, Roy. |
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| 3B Racing acquires Matco Tools Racing Top Fuel team Tim Buckley, owner of 3B Racing, and David Powers, owner of David Powers Motorsports, have announced an agreement in which 3B Racing will become the sole owner of the Matco Tools Top Fueler driven by Antron Brown. The transition was completed in an effort to align the financial estates of Buckley and Powers. Powers remains the owner of "Hot Rod" Fuller’s Caterpillar team. |
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| Former Nationals Top Eliminator champ Cyr dies Former NHRA Nationals and March Meet winner Ted Cyr, who with original partner Bill Hopper had one of the most successful teams in the country during the late 1950s and early 1960s and who later fielded a modern Top Fuel car with Flip Schofield, died Dec. 2 of complications following heart surgery in July. He was 79. |
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| Brown to speak on panel at SportsBusiness Journal Marketing Forum NHRA Top Fuel star Antron Brown will join a distinguished group from the motorsports community as a panel speaker at SportsBusiness Journal’s 2008 Motorsports Marketing Forum Dec. 2 in New York. The panel will discuss a variety of racing topics, including the economy, TV ratings, and the future of motorsports. Tom Compton, Gary Darcy, and John Siragusa will represent NHRA.
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| Capps and Scelzi race mini sprints in memory of Medlen and Kalitta NHRA Funny Car star Ron Capps and his soon-to-be former teammate Gary Scelzi buckled into Super 600 mini sprints Nov. 29 at Park Plaza Raceway in Visalia, Calif., where Scelzi's sons, Dominic (11) and Giovanni (6), race regularly in mini sprints. Capps drove the Wes and Gloria Shaw-owned Eric Medlen tribute car to an 11th-place finish on the fifth-mile clay oval. |
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| 11th annual JFR Holiday Car Show brings joy to kids of SoCal The holiday season is right around the corner, and once again John Force Racing will be giving back to Southern California with the 11th annual John Force Holiday Car Show Dec. 7. The Holiday Car Show began in 1997 and has gotten bigger and better every year. The car show will continue to benefit the California Highway Patrol’s CHiPs for Kids Toy Drive.
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“We can save money on decals for next year.”
Jason Line, on his and teammate Greg Anderson's respective fifth- and second-place finishes for the second straight season
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“He tries to deny that we're rivals, but I know I get under his skin, and it's kinda cool to know that.”
"Hot Rod" Fuller, on Tony Schumacher
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