The situation with the weather was perfect, at least it was for Morgan Lucas. Following up on his teammate in Pro Stock Motorcycle, Lucas started the day in Maple Grove on the same foot he left on in Brainerd.

Lucas vaulted to the top of the Top Fuel class with a solid 3.867 pass ahead of Larry Dixon, Antron Brown and Cory McClenathan during the NHRA Toyo Tires Nationals.

But, is it going to be enough to hold onto the top spot?

The situation with the weather was perfect, at least it was for Morgan Lucas. Following up on his teammate in Pro Stock Motorcycle, Lucas started the day in Maple Grove on the same foot he left on in Brainerd.

Lucas vaulted to the top of the Top Fuel class with a solid 3.867 pass ahead of Larry Dixon, Antron Brown and Cory McClenathan during the NHRA Toyo Tires Nationals.

But, is it going to be enough to hold onto the top spot?

“It all depends on what the weather does tomorrow as far as whether it stands or not,” Lucas agreed. “But I think that from what I've heard about the weather reports there's a good chance there's going to be some sunlight come out. Hopefully it stands, I can't promise one way or the other, but I do know that for these conditions and for the fact that we waited around all day, I really am happy with that. I had a decent light, the car ran really well. I can't say enough about my team right now. They're showing a lot of signs similar to some of the better teams out here that are just not making a lot of mistakes and just continue to progress and move forward with things and the car's just really nice to drive right now, bottom line. When you're competitive and you drive in a competitive race car it helps you in the seat and it helps everybody all the way around to just keep doing the right things.”

Lucas, like Arana, is definitely pleased to see the current performance of his team. They appear to be gelling at just the right moment in the season. However, Lucas is still pretty pumped about his win last week.

“The playoffs definitely are on everyone's mind, but, completely honest with you, after last weekend it's going to be hard to top anything like that, unless the championship is around the corner. There's a lot of good cars still, it's so long season left. I mean it's not like it's just right there around the corner for the end of the year. So we have to mind our P's and Q's, we have to keep the winds out of our head and just keep focused on what we have to do to continue to win and progress, like I said earlier.

“That's the biggest deal is just not ever taking anybody lightly and continuing to do what you're supposed to do and you know you have to do. To be honest with you, the countdown is going to be huge, I'm just happy to have made it and I'm going to be happy just to walk out on stage at the end of the year, so anything on top of this is just added, it's the cherry on top of the sundae, so we'll see how it goes.”  

 

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