HIGHT'S CLOSE CALL WITH THE WINNER'S CIRCLE
Mon, 2008-06-30 07:29
2007 POWERade Funny Car Championship runner-up Robert Hight came up just short against Tony Pedregon – again.
Last year Hight, the 2005 Road to the Future award winner, came within 19 points of winning his first POWERade championship only to finish second to Pedregon by less than one round of racing. Today in the final of the 2nd annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals in Norwalk, Ohio, Hight was consistent all day and it took Pedregon’s best run of the weekend to defeat him.
“In the final it (Hight’s Auto Club Ford Mustang) put some cylinders out but it was way on down the track. Tony (Pedregon) took a shot at us and he ran two hundredths quicker and he killed me on the starting line. I would have needed a .10 light to beat him because he out ran us,” said a disappointed Hight. 2007 POWERade Funny Car Championship runner-up Robert Hight came up just short against Tony Pedregon – again.
Last year Hight, the 2005 Road to the Future award winner, came within 19 points of winning his first POWERade championship only to finish second to Pedregon by less than one round of racing. Today in the final of the 2nd annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals in Norwalk, Ohio, Hight was consistent all day and it took Pedregon’s best run of the weekend to defeat him.
“In the final it (Hight’s Auto Club Ford Mustang) put some cylinders out but it was way on down the track. Tony (Pedregon) took a shot at us and he ran two hundredths quicker and he killed me on the starting line. I would have needed a .10 light to beat him because he out ran us,” said a disappointed Hight.
Hight was No. 1 qualifier for the second year in a row and for his efforts he moved up to the No. 1 position for the US Smokeless Showdown. The Showdown will award $100,000 in a special race-within-a-race at the Mac Tools US Nationals in Indianapolis, Ind. over Labor Day weekend.
In the first round Hight had to race teammate and rookie of the year favorite Mike Neff, before he beat Gary Densham and Cruz Pedregon to reach his third final of the season. This was also the tenth time in twelve races that a John Force Racing Funny Car has reached the final this season.
“We ran the same motor in the semis and the final. It is going to be our motor in Denver. That is a plus. Now it is putting cylinders out when it is spinning so it is not dropping cylinders for no reason. We aren’t chasing our tail anymore. I am just mad at myself. Getting outrun is one thing getting left on like that is ridiculous,” said Hight.
Last year Hight, the 2005 Road to the Future award winner, came within 19 points of winning his first POWERade championship only to finish second to Pedregon by less than one round of racing. Today in the final of the 2nd annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals in Norwalk, Ohio, Hight was consistent all day and it took Pedregon’s best run of the weekend to defeat him.
“In the final it (Hight’s Auto Club Ford Mustang) put some cylinders out but it was way on down the track. Tony (Pedregon) took a shot at us and he ran two hundredths quicker and he killed me on the starting line. I would have needed a .10 light to beat him because he out ran us,” said a disappointed Hight. 2007 POWERade Funny Car Championship runner-up Robert Hight came up just short against Tony Pedregon – again.
Last year Hight, the 2005 Road to the Future award winner, came within 19 points of winning his first POWERade championship only to finish second to Pedregon by less than one round of racing. Today in the final of the 2nd annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals in Norwalk, Ohio, Hight was consistent all day and it took Pedregon’s best run of the weekend to defeat him.
“In the final it (Hight’s Auto Club Ford Mustang) put some cylinders out but it was way on down the track. Tony (Pedregon) took a shot at us and he ran two hundredths quicker and he killed me on the starting line. I would have needed a .10 light to beat him because he out ran us,” said a disappointed Hight.
Hight was No. 1 qualifier for the second year in a row and for his efforts he moved up to the No. 1 position for the US Smokeless Showdown. The Showdown will award $100,000 in a special race-within-a-race at the Mac Tools US Nationals in Indianapolis, Ind. over Labor Day weekend.
In the first round Hight had to race teammate and rookie of the year favorite Mike Neff, before he beat Gary Densham and Cruz Pedregon to reach his third final of the season. This was also the tenth time in twelve races that a John Force Racing Funny Car has reached the final this season.
“We ran the same motor in the semis and the final. It is going to be our motor in Denver. That is a plus. Now it is putting cylinders out when it is spinning so it is not dropping cylinders for no reason. We aren’t chasing our tail anymore. I am just mad at myself. Getting outrun is one thing getting left on like that is ridiculous,” said Hight.
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