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Tony, Matt Grab Career Bests, Poles, Phoenix Titles DSR's U.S. Army, Rocky/Mopar teams burn up Phoenix Photos by AutoImagery.com Tony, Matt grab career bests, poles, Phoenix titles Don Schumacher Racing enjoyed a remarkable weekend outside of Phoenix two weeks ago and plans for it to continue next weekend when the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series moves to Gainesville, Fla., for the 46th annual Gatornationals. Near Phoenix at the season’s second event, DSR’s Matt Hagan and Tony Schumacher and their teams produced a memorable weekend by extending DSR’s win total to 243 and marking the 42nd time the organization has won two titles at the same event. But it was even sweeter. Schumacher and Hagan used career best elapsed times to earn No. 1 qualifier positions, which was the third time DSR swept nitro poles and titles at the same race. They enhanced that on their winning title runs by further improving career bests. Hagan, the two-time and reigning Funny Car world champ, is on quite a roll with Mopar Express Lane/Rocky Boots’ crew chief Dickie Venables, assistant Michael Knudsen and the 2015 Dodge Charger R/T crew that won the pole with a time of 3.978 seconds then in the title run improved to a 3.975 at 324.83 mph, which is the second fastest ever. The trip to winner’s circle at Phoenix was their third consecutive title including the season-finale last November. Since the six-race NHRA Countdown to the Championship playoff began last September the Mopar/Rocky team is 26-3 in elimination rounds. It’s hard for Schumacher, the eight-time and reigning Top Fuel world champion, to add to the U.S. Army team’s laurels but they did it at Phoenix. Tony and the team earned 11 out of a possible 12 bonus points in qualifying at Phoenix by being the quickest in the first three sessions and second best in the fourth. He used a career best elapsed time (3.722) to earn the 77th pole of his career then bettered that time (3.720) in the championship round for his 78th NHRA Wally trophy. The best news at Phoenix, however, came on Friday when team owner and Funny Car pioneer Don Schumacher completed the last of 31 radiation treatments since successful cancer surgery three months ago. But two successful events don’t complete a season and it’s on to Gainesville where Antron Brown and the Matco Tools team presented DSR with its 200th win two years ago and Johnny Gray preceded with the Funny Car title. 1,450 Matco distributors join Brown on 320-mph runs down the dragstrip Antron Brown rides with more than 1,450 co-pilots when he drives his Matco Tools Top Fuel dragster in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series. Brown, the 2012 Top Fuel world champion, unveiled the 2015 design for his Matco Tools Top Fuel dragster Feb. 15 at the annual Matco Tools Expo’s National Business Conference at Gaylord Palms in Orlando and it made its first runs two weeks ago at the Mello Yello race near Phoenix. The featured names belong to active Matco Tools distributors and Brown is proud to take their names along for the ride. The concept of incorporating the names of Matco Tool’s distributors follows last year’s annual “Tools for the Cause” campaign when Matco raised funds and awareness for Susan G. Komen®, an organization that funds breast cancer research and lifesaving community programs. The names of more than 1,300 people whose lives have been affected by breast cancer were featured on Brown’s “I Drive For” special edition pink Matco Tools dragster last October. This is the sixth season in which Brown has driven a DSR Top Fueler sponsored by Matco Tools. In 2008-09, Brown’s Matco-backed dragster was owned by David Powers and Mike Ashley, respectively. Brown has won 47 times and 31 of his NHRA event titles happened in a Matco dragster, including a series-best six times last year. PHOENIX SCRAPBOOK NAPA guests pack Wild Horse, Ron always a hit on 98KUPD Ron Capps started his racing weekend near Phoenix with his 12th annual visit to 98KUPD’s “Holmberg’s Morning Sickness Show” that is the area’s No. 1 morning-drive program (98kupd.com). Ron also had the largest cheering section on Saturday at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park when about 3,000 NAPA employees and their guests enjoyed the day at the track. Spencer Massey’s Top Fuel team featured the eye- catching colors of Sandvik Coromant at Phoenix in the first of eight Mello Yello events in which the global leader in cutting tools and machining solutions will be featured on the car and uniforms. The next time will be the March 27-29 Four-Wide Nationals near Charlotte. The Infinite Hero team and driver Jack Beckman qualified 12th at Phoenix and stayed at the track the following Monday to test, and their 2015 Dodge Charger R/T recorded a pair of 4.00-second runs and a stellar 3.957 seconds at 323.97 mph. Tommy Johnson Jr. and the Make-A-Wish Dodge Charger R/T team qualified No. 5 at Phoenix with a time of 4.003 seconds at 315.27 mph and advanced to the quarterfinals for the second straight race. "Fast Jack" focused and ready to run. Tony loves signing autographs for kids. SPOTLIGHT ON DSR Gripologist Fletcher knows how to make the rubber meet the dragstrip Dave Fletcher had a life changing experience around 1974 when he visited Santa Pod Raceway in Bedfordshire, England, about 100 miles from his home in London. That was when he inhaled his first a whiff of nitromethane exhaust. The Englishman began helping with some nitro and alcohol drag racing teams in England before venturing to the United States to attend some NHRA national events, which is when he met legendary crew chief Austin Coil who eventually hired him to work on the famed Chi-Town Hustler Funny Car. When Coil joined John Force, Dave went along. After a few years with Force, Dave joined Kenny Bernstein in time to be part of the “Budweiser King’s” historic 300-mph run in March 1992 at Gainesville, Fla. After a brief stint working with an IndyCar team in Indianapolis, Dave went to Qatar to work with friends Mike Guger and Rob Flynn on Pro Mod cars and later was employed by Top Fuel owners Bob Vandergriff Jr. and Steve Torrence before joining DSR as its traction specialist and parts inventory manager. Since joining DSR at the start of the 2013 season, Dave, who lives in Indianapolis with his wife, Joani, has been part of 46 winner’s circle celebrations. There is good reason for that. Making 10,000 horsepower is only part of a winning formula; if a 320-mph race car can’t transfer that power to the racetrack then win lights don’t come on. Dave’s traction expertise and understanding of how Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars work enable him to provide valuable information to crew chiefs. “Every run is something of a balancing act between overpowering the available traction and not having sufficient power output to put to the pavement in an optimum (aggressive) manner,” he said. Dave’s first job on race weekends is the day – or night – before Top Fuel and Funny Car teams can get on the track, usually upon the conclusion of NHRA Sportsman qualifying before nitro race days. He uses a device developed and built by DSR that is towed by a golf cart. The device – called the Track Profiler – has the wheelbase of a Top Fueler dragster with a center- mounted bicycle tire that relays track smoothness to an on-board computer. The data is downloaded and graph printouts are given to each of DSR’s seven teams. “These linear recordings offer immediate info on irregular things such as bumps in the track which may have an effect on clutch settings,” he said. On race days, he relies on the soles of his shoes and a Track Meter machine developed by Eddie Litke, the clutch specialist for the Bill Miller Engineering Top Fueler, and Larry Wolyniec. The patented device features a spring-loaded rubber pad within a billet aluminum case. Dave stands on its foot pegs before bending to use a built-in torque wrench that with clockwise turns of an internal apparatus indicates when the bond breaks to indicate grip of the racing surface. ShoeRacing.com DSR’s Lewis heads west for March Meet It would seem that Mike Lewis, Don Schumacher Racing’s senior vice president, spends enough time at a racetrack. He’ll be at all 24 Mello Yello events this year with DSR, and he frequently visits his family’s Maple Grove Raceway near Reading, Pa. Nonetheless, he is outside of Los Angeles this weekend for the legandary March Meet Drag Races that features nostalgia cars racing in a quartermile. Instead of his customary spot behind the starting line when one of DSR’s drivers are about to make a run, Mike will be where he loves and that’s sitting inside the “Nitro Nick” Nostalgia Funny Car for another run. The 1972 Vega owned by Cecil Matthews and Randy Lucchetti of Ukiah, Calif., and tuned by crew chief Anthony Dicero crew chief was formerly owned by Pennsylvania’s Nick and Nicky Boninfante and uses what once was the back-up chassis for the late Scott Kalitta. Mike, who won the Funny Car title in the 2012 California Hot Rod Reunion at Bakersfield, upset last season’s championship contender Kris Krabill with a run of 5.86 seconds at 242 mph in last fall’s Hot Rod Reunion.
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