Defending NHRA Top Fuel world champion, Tony Schumacher, began preparing for the 2009 Full Throttle Drag Racing Series
season with a three-day test session at Palm Beach (Fla.) International Raceway last weekend.
Working with a new crew chief in Mike Green and a brand new team,
overall, Schumacher still managed to produce low elapsed time and top
speed by the final day.
“We had an awesome weekend,” said the Chicago-area resident. “Given the
fact it was the first time we worked together, it was a terrific way to
kick things off. The crew guys are great and Mike Green is brilliant.
We all worked extremely well together. There’s not much to complain
about when you put up the kind of numbers that we did.”
Over
three days, the U.S. Army team made 11 runs, trying different
combinations along the way. Schumacher’s best 1,000-foot pass was
3.812-seconds at 317.05 mph.