The Bob Vandergriff National Event win watch is over!

after 222 events, Bob has won one! Awesome...he's now 1-13 in final rounds. Question is, why isn't that the top NHRA story? He's been racing since 1994. Won his first event in 17 years?

Who's next on the list to watch among active drivers..Top fuel - Clay Millican 106 events since 1999 0-4 in final rounds

Here are a few stats for topfuel after Charlotte...

We have had 17 events this year and 36 different drivers qualifying for them thus far...

Low e.t. 3.770 for the year was run by Larry Dixon at the first event of the year, in qualifying! Tony S. missed by .001 at Charlotte, but did set top speed of the year with a 327.90

AND Tony owns best light, so far this year, with a .011 @ Brainerd in a losing effort in the final...and speaking of Tony he has had a rough year in the final round...0-6 this year.

Even rougher for Troy Buff, who hasn't gotten by the first round yet, with a 0-7 first round record.

On the bright side, Antron Brown has NOT lost a first round of racing.

Most lopsided w/l record this year...Brown v. Kalitta...Brown is 6-0 versus Doug.

The Bob Vandergriff first national event win WATCH continues...Bob did make it to the final round @ Topeka, but lost to Spencer Massey

Bob sits at qualifying for 221 events, since 1994, sans a win and 0-13 in final rounds..we are pulling for ya!

2010 NHRA Stats

Hello Everyone:
I'll be posting a few stats from 2010 over the next few weeks:

tf - i bet you didn't know that there were 40 different drivers that QUALIFIED for 23 different events, but only 11 drivers qualified for 13 or more of them
fc - i bet you didn't know that del worsham lost on 4 holeshots and that tony pedregon won on 4
ps - i bet you didn't know that greg stanfield won 12 rounds on holeshots...you knew he was good, but not that good...come on!...but not the most ever in a season...most ever holeshot wins in a season goes to dave connolly, in the 2006 season...13 wins
psb - you knew there has been a lot of redlights in psb, but i bet you didn't know that the number is down this year from previous years...56 redlights in 2010, down from 71 in 2009 and 72 in 2008

have a great day...jim

When was the last 15 car funny car field and who had the last (good) bye

Of course you were wondering...17 years ago in Brainerd...who had the first round bye...Cruz

But Cruz isn't the last FC driver to get a bye run...that would be the late Bruce Sarver at the Fall 2001 Vegas race

Bruce got a second round bye when Force and Bob Bode were both DQ'd in the first round...

My definition of a bye is NOT when a driver breaks or doesn't show at the line, but when there is no qualified or an impossibility of anyone showing in the other lane.

48 Top Fuel Drivers Qualify in 2009

A record 48 different drivers qualified in topfuel in 2009! (Actually made the show.)

That is amazing, given that 2 events only had 15 drivers. (Etown and Topeka).

Here are driver's last name...here's your job...put the first name with the last name.

BACA

BERNSTEIN, B

BOWERS

BROWN

BUFF

CARTER

CHRISMAN

COX

CULLINAN

DAKIN

DIXON

ERBACHER

FARIA

FOLEY

FULLER

GRUBNIC

GUNDERSON

HADDOCK

HARTLEY, J

HERBERT

JONES

KALITTA, D

KARAMESINES

LAGANA

LAGANA, D

LANGDON

LITTON

LUCAS

MASSEY

MCCLENATHAN

MCMILLEN

MILLICAN

NATAAS

NEERGAARD

NOVELLI

PALMER

PASSEY

PUSTARI

SCHUMACHER

SIMPSON

SMITH, J

SMITH, R

STRASBURG

TODD

TORRENCE

VANDERGRIFF,B

WEIS

ZIZZO

most event wins? morgan lucas or hector arana?

who has the most event victories...morgan lucas or hector arana...to the untrained, stat challenged drag fan, of course its the high dollar talented morgan lucas team...and of course you would be wrong.
brainerd 2009 was only morgan's 2nd national event win, compared to hector's 3rd.
it was hector's 3rd time qualifying #1 and morgan's 4th.
morgan has r/u'd 5 times and hector, well never, but hector has been around a long time and my psb stats don't go beyond 1998.
morgan now shores up a 100-105 record after qualifying at 107 events, barely above .500!

Pro Stock Recession

Yes, the six second barrier was broken in Denver and pounded by Allen Johnson, but economic constraints have finally hit pro stock. Denver usually gets a boat load of cars (20-25) for every event. We were "lucky" to have 16 cars at Denver....the final two qualifying spots held by NHRA elimination virgins Mark Buehring and Danny Gruninger taking those spots.

So, besides the screwed up weather wise events of the fall Dallas 2000 and the second Pomona event in 2002, this event overtakes this years Pomona event (where one round of qualifying stats produced a gap of .244).

After 4 rounds of qualifying at Denver 2009 the gap between #1 and #16 was .248.

Worst qualifying difference between #1 and #16 I have in my 23 year database!

By the way, in my stat coverage since 1987, there never has been a short field in pro stock...I have a bad feeling that may change this year. The recession is hitting everyone!