As the voting for the NHRA’s Rookie of the Year winds down, Mike Neff felt the need to add another marker in his favor towards earning the award. The freshman driver for John Force Racing rewrote the mythical 1000 foot record book with an amazing 4.041 second blast.

If his time holds up it will be his second number one effort of the season. Neff is the only rookie to record a No. 1 qualifier this season.

Friday’s session was a display of high horsepower performance primarily by his JFR teammates. As the voting for the NHRA’s Rookie of the Year winds down, Mike Neff felt the need to add another marker in his favor towards earning the award. The freshman driver for John Force Racing rewrote the mythical 1000 foot record book with an amazing 4.041 second blast.

If his time holds up it will be his second number one effort of the season. Neff is the only rookie to record a No. 1 qualifier this season.

Friday’s session was a display of high horsepower performance primarily by his JFR teammates.

Teammate Ashley Force was the first driver to record a 1000 foot time in the 4.04s passing teammate Robert Hight holder of the fourth quickest 1000 passes before she flew past him with a 4.048 second run. Force was joined in the 4.04 second club by former John Force Racing driver Tony Pedregon who covered 1000 feet in 4.049 seconds

Neff saw Force’s epic run and he knew that his crew chief John Medlen was planning on pushing the envelope.

“I thought when Ashley ran that 4.04 I thought ’Wow that is a huge run.’ I knew Medlen was trying and if it all went perfect that it might be close. For us to do that that was a lot of fun. It was awesome,” said the rookie. “Just to get them (all four JFR Mustangs) all in the top 12 that is our main goal. That was just a great night of qualifying. It has been a long time since you have seen this many cars run this good and breaking the records at 1000 feet. That is all fun and exciting stuff.”