Leah Pruett, Gaige Herrera, Robert Hight will also enter Sunday eliminations as No. 1 seeds.
Gaige Herrera continued his perfect run in Pro Stock Motorcycle on Saturday at Bristol Dragway, winning the Mission #2Fast2Tasty NHRA Challenge and securing his fourth straight No. 1 qualifier at the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals.
“It makes me feel better that I went out there and did my job,” Herrera said. “I had to fight the bike a little bit from going towards the wall, and I think that's why we slowed up a little bit. But that was a good run with Hector. I was glad to get the holeshot and come out on top. Just to be a part of the whole Mission Challenge is very cool.
“Drag racing has a lot of highs and lows, and we've been struggling a little bit the beginning of the season, but they've been working very hard. We've turned it around, and I've just got a really good hot rod. I had a really good racecar pretty much all year last year, and I think we're getting back to that place.”Enders officially earned her first No. 1 of the season, as her run of 6.627 at 205.
“This No. 1 is just a testament to the consistency that this team has had all season long. It's the culmination of our performance that has led up to this,” Pruett said. “There is nothing like racing on Sunday and racing in Thunder Valley."We got the highs and the lows and the emotions of racing in qualifying. You get the echo of the cars here, and hopefully, we echo our performance of qualifying No. 1 and bring that into raceday all day. I'm eager.
“My team has a pretty good handle on all the conditions – we've raced a lot of different conditions, and we have a lot of data to look at,” Hight said. “We do have a new combination, and we're trying to get through that, but if we get the cylinder dropping fixed, this thing will have three-second runs all day tomorrow. That's probably what it's going to take to win, especially first round.
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