DSR Las Vegas Four-Wide Nationals
Qualifying Report
NHRA Four-Wide Nationals
Event 4 of 24 (Las Vegas I)
The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Las Vegas, Nev.
April 6-8, 2018
DSR Las Vegas Qualifying Highlights:
- Tony Schumacher earns his 86th No. 1 qualifier
- Saturday marks the 150th time Schumacher has qualified either No. 1 or No. 2 in his career
- Ron Capps is one of only three Funny Car drivers to have earned bonus points at each of the first four races in 2018
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LAS VEGAS, Nevada (April 7, 2018)
TOMMY JOHNSON JR.
Driver of the Make-A-Wish Foundation Dodge Charger R/T
Qualified: No. 2
The Competition:
No. 7 Matt Hagan
No. 10 Tim Wilkerson
No. 15 Del Worsham
The Results:
Q1: 4.092 E.T. at 303.57 MPH
Q2: 3.983 E.T. at 315.49 MPH (Three bonus points for quickest run of the session)
Q3: 3.932 E.T. at 318.84 MPH (Three bonus points for quickest run of the session)
Q4: 3.977 E.T. at 314.90 MPH
Bonus Points: Six
Quotable:
“I don’t think there are any easy quads tomorrow. The way the car is running right now, I’m extremely pleased. In qualifying, every run was a good run. It went down the track all four times and not very many people did that. So going into race day, I feel really confident in our car. It’s probably the best the car’s been all season so I’m looking for a long day. ”
About Don Schumacher Racing
Don Schumacher Racing, headquartered in Brownsburg, Ind., fields seven professional NHRA teams. In Top Fuel, the U.S. Army dragster driven by eight-time world champion Tony Schumacher, the Matco Tools/U.S. Army dragster driven by three-time world champion Antron Brown and the Mopar/Papa John’s Pizza/Pennzoil/FireAde/U.S. Army dragster driven by Leah Pritchett; and in Funny Car, 2016 world champion Ron Capps in the NAPA AUTO PARTS Dodge Charger R/T; two-time world champion Matt Hagan in the Mopar Express Lane Dodge Charger/Sandvik Coromant R/T, and 2012 NHRA world champion Jack Beckman in Terry and Doug Chandler’s Infinite Hero Foundation Dodge and the Chandlers’ Make-A-Wish Dodge driven by Tommy Johnson Jr.
DSR has won 320 NHRA national event titles and 16 world championships.