Mendy Fry is exactly where she has wanted to be all of her life.

Fry ascended into the NHRA Heritage Series Top Fuel point lead on the strength of her monumental Good Vibrations Bakersfield March Meet win earlier this season. 

Fry, who raced Nostalgia Funny Cars for the last few seasons, has shown no problems in the transition back to the front-engine dragsters. 

“It’s gone incredibly well to this point,” Fry said. “We had a lot of adversity at the March Meet, but we really pulled together as a team. It was the first time I had been in a (Nostalgia) Top Fuel car in a few years and the performance of this car eclipses any car I’ve driven. We had some mechanical failures we came back from and had some things go our way, but when it mattered, we got the job done as well.”

Fry first become a professional drag racer starting with the front-engined dragsters, and ironically with Tom Shelar and his High-Speed Motorsports team, her current ride. 

Nothing makes one a target more than being at the top of the points, just ask Fry. She leads the likes of Tony Bartone, who has won the last three NHRA Hot Rod Heritage titles in Top Fuel, Jim Murphy and Pete Wittenberg. 

“We are first in points, but we’ve got a big target on our backs, and we’re just hoping to bring our ‘A’ game,” said Fry, who went 5.598 at 252.66 mph in her final-round win at Bakersfield this year. “I’m a very competitive person and there’s pressure there. We want to do well and I know the team will be ready. The one who needs to perform is me. I’m essentially a Top Fuel rookie again and this car is a completely different deal for me, but we’re definitely on a high that would take some teams a lot longer to achieve.”

One thing working in Fry's favor as the team heads into the  15th annual Holley National Hot Rod Reunion at Beech Bend Raceway Park, is their tendency to performance well at the event located in Bowling Green, Kentucky. 

“They’ve won seven out of the nine times they’ve entered this race,” Fry said. “Personally I’ve never done that great, but it’s still one of my favorites. The people are wonderful and the facility just has this great vibe. The spectator experience is really great there and they’re so close to the action.”

And for Fry, she's never been closer to the ultimate goal, a series championship.