CLERMONT, Ind. — For the reason that Sixties, nitro-burning Humorous Automobiles have had NHRA followers on the sting of their seats, watching the unbelievable machines energy to massive speeds and quick occasions.
On Sunday on the 71st annual Cornwell High quality Instruments NHRA U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, the present Humorous Automobile stars of the NHRA Mission Meals Drag Racing Sequence will put their 12,000-horsepower vehicles to the take a look at through the PlayNHRA Humorous Automobile All-Star Callout.
As a part of a packed weekend on the Cornwell High quality Instruments NHRA U.S. Nationals, eight high Humorous Automobile drivers will battle it out for high honors within the PlayNHRA Humorous Automobile All-Star Callout specialty race.
The favored callout-style race is again in Indianapolis and guarantees to ship followers intense racing motion from among the largest names in NHRA drag racing.
The distinctive callout format provides a layer of bragging rights to the big-money race, with one driver getting the possibility for an enormous double-up weekend.
Main the way in which is John Power Racing’s Austin Prock, who’s the reigning Cornwell High quality Instruments NHRA U.S. Nationals winner and the reigning world champion.
Prock can have his choose of opponents of a discipline that features, so as, Jack Beckman, Ron Capps, Matt Hagan, Bob Tasca III, Daniel Wilkerson, J.R. Todd and Cruz Pedregon.
Prock at the moment has six wins on the season and has a commanding factors lead. He’ll lock up the regular-season championship this weekend in Indy, and earned the No. 1 seed for this 12 months’s PlayNHRA Humorous Automobile All-Star Callout.
Beckman, a two-time Cornwell High quality Instruments NHRA U.S. Nationals winner, can have the second alternative of picks until Prock calls out his teammate. Beckman collected a pair of wins early this season in Pomona and Chicago.
Capps is third and hopes to be the primary Humorous Automobile driver to say a number of PlayNHRA Humorous Automobile All-Star Callout titles after profitable the primary Callout in 2022.
4-time champion Hagan, who collected the Seattle win final month, is fourth, whereas Tasca is fifth and will probably be aiming for his first Callout win in addition to his first Indianapolis win. Wilkerson claimed a Mission #2Fast2Tasty NHRA Problem win in Richmond and is sixth and Epping winner Todd is seventh.
Two-time world champion and three-time Indy winner Pedregon will probably be on the lookout for extra success from Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park in a discipline that features six world champions amassing 12 general world titles.
