The maximum number of points a driver in Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, and Pro Stock Motorcycle can earn this weekend at the NHRA Finals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, Calif., is 191.
Only 199 points separate top-ranked Brittany Force and No. 10 Clay Millican in the Top Fuel class, but the champion will almost certainly come from the trio of Force, No. 2 Justin Ashley, or No. 3 Mike Salinas. Antron Brown is fourth, 78 points behind Force, and Steve Torrence is fifth, 87 points back. With too many drivers to leapfrog, No. 6 Austin Prock (-126) and No. 7 Josh Hart (-161), have slipped out of the championship conversation.
Force, the 2017 champion, knows her second title isn’t a guaranteed deal.