Championship Drag Racing

Fram Autolite NHRA Nationals
Sonoma, CA
(July 28-30)

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Tony Schumacher U.S. Army dragster

Sonoma, Saturday:  U.S. Army Top Fuel driver Tony "The Sarge" Schumacher, pocketed the number one starting spot here Saturday for tomorrow's running of the FRAM-Autolite Nationals at Infineon Raceway.

Schumacher rode his track record pass of 4.486-seconds at 328.94 mph from Friday to his seventh pole of the year and the 29th of his career. The Chicago native will face 16th-place qualifier, Steve Chrisman, in the opening round of eliminations beginning at 12 noon PDT.

"We're ready to rock for race day," offered the defending NHRA POWERade Top Fuel world champion. "We were solid in qualifying here this weekend, but now we have to raise the bar for race day. We definitely want to build off of the momentum that we stored up over the last three races."

Schumacher came into the weekend 150 points out of the lead holding fourth place.

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