Gary Scelzi
Gary Scelzi
Gary Scelzi,, is an American dragster racer and midget car owner who has won the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Top Fuel championship on three occasions and the Funny Car title once. In 1997 he won the title in his first full year of competition, after replacing Blaine Johnson, who had been killed at the 1996 US Nationals, while leading the top fuel championship, in the Johnson family-owned car. He has not competed in NHRA competition since the 2008...
car chase funny trying
I'm not trying to make this Funny Car championship chase so close,
cool dallas run weather weekend
If the weather really does cool down this weekend in Dallas it will be great, ... Even if it doesn't, that's OK, because we can run in the heat.
anyone auto backing club feeling finals
But I have a feeling it's going to go down to Pomona (at the Auto Club Finals in November). I don't see anyone backing down.
effort equals except harder program seeing start week winter
It's always harder to defend. I never thought we'd have the start that we had. Effort equals results, except in this case, because we put a lot of effort into this program over the winter and every week and we're just not seeing the results.
guys impressed serious
It was a serious run. I know we were on the limiter. I'm impressed with how these guys are working. They're really on it.
bump choice critical guess heard lane left normally race
The right lane has a pretty big bump in it. Historically, it's been a one-lane race track, normally the left lane. So, I don't know if they've made any improvements or not. I haven't heard anything, but I guess we'll find out. Lane choice is critical here.
excited four next ready rise seem
This is when I seem to rise to the occasion. I'm excited about it. I'm ready to go to these next four races. If it were up to me, we could just do them all in a row.
car cars deep field force funny john level schumacher shows talent
This just shows how deep the talent level in Funny Car is, ... No one is intimidated by John Force or the Schumacher cars. The field is deep.
gets tough
It's as tough as it gets right now,
games win worry
This is a must-win race, ... Then we've got to go to Pomona (Calif.) and win there. The games are over. We need to do our thing and get it done and let everyone else worry about us.
bonus
The rev limiter is going to put a damper on those 20 bonus points,
chance conditions gave giving hold late learn perfect racetrack run running tomorrow tonight
Running late tonight gave us a chance to run in perfect conditions, ... I know we won't have conditions like this tomorrow but we did learn that this racetrack can hold a lot more than we've been giving it.