NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series 2010 Results
NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series 2010 Results. John Force dominated a dramatic Sunday at the Auto Club NHRA Finals, first winning the season championship in Funny Car and then the event itself. Force was joined in the winner’s circle at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona by Antron Brown (Top Fuel), Shane Gray (Pro Stock), and Eddie Krawiec (Pro Stock Motorcycle). The win was the first of rookie Gray’s career and the first of the season for Brown.
Championship Sunday lived up to its billing as the title battles in Funny Car and Pro Stock Motorcycle had the fans at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona and across the world watching and listening on the internet on the edge of their seats. After Larry Dixon ended whatever drama existed still in Top Fuel with a first-round victory to seal his third career title and joined Greg Anderson, who locked up the Pro Stock title in qualifying Saturday, as a recrowned former champ, Force took advantage of a first-round loss in Funny Car by points leader Matt Hagan to defeat Gary Densham in round one and Bob Bode in round two to win his 15th career championship. Rookie rider LE Tonglet similarly drove through the door opened by Pro Stock Motorcycle frontrunner Andrew Hines’ first-round foul to dispatch Matt Guidera in round one and then Steve Johnson to win his first championship. Tonglet is just the third rookie to win a Pro championship, on the heels of Frank Hawley (1982) and Gary Scelzi (1997).