If the competition had a minimum chance of beating Top Fuel point
leader Tony Schumacher in a quarter-mile, the
Tony Schumacher became the sixth driver to sweep the Western Swing.
introduction of 1,000
foot drag racing dropped those odds significantly. Schumacher admits
the rev-limiter doesn’t come into play any more.
“NHRA didn’t put a rev limiter on just to slow my car down but it did,”
Schumacher said. “We ran 337 in Brainerd a few years back. NHRA
mandated a rev limiter, and we’ve been one of the only ones hitting it.
I mean everyone taps it now and then … we level it. So people come
forward ‘it’s not fair’ … wait a minute it wasn’t fair that I was
getting penalized for having the fastest car. We did it for safety, to
keep the car from going 340 on tracks that we know we shouldn’t be
doing that on. We know that’s what we did it for.”
The rev-limiter might have had designs on slowing down the dragsters,
but for Schumacher, he said the rev-limiter was more of a performance
equalizer than anything.