IN THE RAIN, LUCAS REIGNS
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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