 | WORSHAM CLOSES IN ON FUNNY CAR POINTS LEAD WITH SECOND CONSECUTIVE VICTORY
In Sunday's NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at the Bristol Dragway, Del Worsham wheeled his Alan Johnson Al-Anabi Toyota to its second straight Funny Car victory. The run was the quickest of the entire weekend and gives Worsham a tight hold on second place in the Full Throttle Drag Racing Series standings.
It has taken just eight races for Worsham to collect two wins and establish the Aaron Brooks-led Al-Anabi team as one of the favorites for the NHRA championship. "It's just a great car, the best one I've ever had," said Worsham, who once fielded his own team with father Chuck Worsham from 1990 to 2008. "There was a time when I was happy to just to qualify because it was enough money to get me to the next race. I was always involved with tuning our car, and I used to think we made a lot of horsepower. This is a lot of horsepower."
To read the full story and see how the rest of the Toyota Supported NHRA teams did, please visit Toyota Racing.
Get front-seat action! Check out the Morgan Lucas Racing video on Toyota Racing.
TOYOTA TAKES THREE TOP-10s IN ALL-STAR ACTION -- Tundras Nearly Visit Victory Lane  Toyota drivers from the NASCAR® Sprint Cup Series™ (NSCS) and NASCAR® Camping World Truck Series™ (NCWTS) competed at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Charlotte over the weekend, with three Camrys finishing in the top-10 in the All-Star Race and the Tundras narrowly missing a fifth victory of 2009.
In Saturday night's All-Star race, all three Toyota drivers competing in the four-segment, 100-lap event finished in the top-10 on the 1.5-mile North Carolina oval.
Denny Hamlin finished fourth in the Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) No. 11 FedEx Camry, Kyle Busch -- who won the 20-lap second segment -- finished seventh in the JGR No. 18 M&M's Camry, and in his first All-Star appearance after being voted in by fans, Rookie Joey Logano finished eighth in the JGR No. 20 Home Depot Toyota.
In Friday's NCWTS race, Busch finished second in the Billy Ballew Motorsports No. 51 Miccosukee Resorts Tundra, the highest among the Toyota drivers in the 134-lap, 200 mile event.
Terry Cook (fifth), David Starr (seventh), Tayler Malsam (eighth) and Stacy Compton (ninth) also posted top-10 finishes for Toyota. Tundra drivers Brian Ickler (16th), Brian Scott (21st), Johnny Benson (23rd), Todd Bodine (25th), Mike Skinner (29th), T.J. Bell (30th) and Timothy Peters (31st) were also in the field.
To get the full story, please visit Toyota Racing.
Check out the newest addition to ToyotaRacing.com, Joe Gibbs Racing MX. Here, you will learn all about the JGR MX riders and team owner.
Up next: - NASCAR® Nationwide Series™ -- Lowe's Motor Speedway, Saturday, May 23 @ 7:00 p.m. (ET) on ESPN2
- NASCAR® SPRINT Cup Series™ -- Lowe's Motor Speedway, Sunday, May 24 @ 5:00 p.m. (ET) on FOX
NASCAR® is a registered trademark of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, Inc. The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is a trademark owned by NASCAR, Inc., and Sprint. The NASCAR Nationwide Series logo and word mark are used under license by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, Inc., and Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series is a trademark owned by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, Inc., and Camping World, Inc.
| |
No comments:
Post a Comment