BRISTOL, Tenn. — Morgan Lucas was all smiles in the GEICO/Lucas Oil pit Sunday afternoon following a strong semifinal finish at the Ford Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Dragway. After qualifying 13th on the 16-car grid, Lucas upset Dave Grubnic in Round 1 and caught and passed seven-time world champion Tony Schumacher in Round 2 before smoking his tires down-track and falling to Spencer Massey in Round 3. “We finally broke our streak of Groundhog [...]
BRISTOL, Tenn. — J.R. Todd’s raceday at the Ford Thunder Valley Nationals was short-lived as he bowed to Brittany Force in the first round of eliminations at Bristol Dragway. The No. 9 qualifier heading into Sunday’s eliminations, Todd is racing in place of the injured Brandon Bernstein in the ProtectTheHarvest.com/Lucas Oil Top Fuel dragster. The 2006 Rookie of the Year got the jump on Force at the starting line and led the way down the [...]
BRISTOL, Tenn. — Although the sport of drag racing relies so heavily on numbers that the timing system used to track dueling 330-mph Top Fuel dragsters can exact an elapsed time down to 10-thousandths of a second increments, GEICO-backed star Morgan Lucas knows those same digits don’t always tell the whole story. Lucas qualified for this weekend’s Ford Thunder Valley Nationals in the No. 13 position with a 3.864 at 317.12 mph. Compared to the [...]
BRISTOL, Tenn. — Filling in for the injured Brandon Bernstein, J.R. Todd guided the ProtectTheHavest.com/Lucas Oil Top Fuel dragster to a respectable ninth-place qualifying effort at this weekend’s Ford Thunder Valley Nationals. Using the slightly cooler Friday evening session to make his mark, Todd posted a 3.835 at 318.47 mph to earn his mid-pack position on the elimination grid. Todd said his time with Morgan Lucas Racing a few years ago helped him quickly settle [...]
BRISTOL, Tenn. – J.R. Todd knows he has big shoes to fill substituting for Brandon Bernstein behind the wheel of the ProtectTheHarvest.com/MAVTV Top Fuel dragster, but Todd is comforted knowing that when he gets to Bristol Dragway for the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals, the “get-to-know-you” process will be short. Most of the faces on the ProtectTheHarvest.com crew are the same from when Todd drove for Morgan Lucas Racing a few years back. “It should be [...]
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