Also, Erica Enders not happy with the track, Hight bounces back.
After about two hours of rain Saturday evening, five-time NHRA Pro Stock champion Erica Enders knew the track conditions at zMAX Dragway weren’t ideal for her class to make its final qualifying run despite the work by the NHRA Safety Safari.“No downforce after rain and a cold race track is just not ideal,” Enders says. “It was not a safe racing surface. We risked our lives and over a million dollars’ worth of equipment to try to put some points in the column for the championship.
Enders claimed the No. 1 qualifying position with a 6.509-second E.T., 210.18 mph, run. She meets Mason McGaha in the first round of Sunday’s eliminations. Hight said his crew worked until 11 p.m. Friday repairing his car and were back on duty early Saturday morning. That time came Saturday night at zMAX Dragway in Concord, N.C., after about a two-hour rain delay that cooled the track. Salinas became the first ever Top Fuel driver to record 300 mph at the eighth-mile mark. That came three decades after Kenny Bernstein recorded 300 mph at the quarter-mile mark in 1992.
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