Scelzi Goes to Final Round, Loses to Teammate Bazemore
Scelzi moves into fifth in the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series Funny Car point standings, however, and is now just 97 points behind points leader Del Worsham.
"It smoked the tires at the hit," said a disappointed Scelzi. "You don'teven have a chance. You just beat yourself. It's unfortunate. I don't know what happened.
"It was still a great day. When you get to the final round, it's a good thing, even if you get beat. But I'd just like to run side by side with somebody if that's what's going to happen, but that's not what happened. It's unfortunate. It wasn't a planned deal, obviously. Something either malfunctioned or we missed on the tune-up. It was just one of those things."
Crew chief Mike Neff was stoic. "It looks like the clutch was really aggressive. It got hot. We were up there running for a lot longer than we normally do. And for whatever reason it was just really aggressive when he stepped on the gas and it smoked the tires. We tried backing it down from the prior runs today just to be safe, to make sure we got off the starting line, because I didn't feel the left lane was quite as good as the right lane. But for whatever reason we just had a hiccup in the clutch and it was just too aggressive and came loose.
"It's a good day for us and we're really encouraged with the progress that we've been making here lately. We've made an awful lot of changes to this thing and now we've picked a combination that we're going to stick with and try to make work. We don't have that many runs with it but we're learning every time it goes down the track and we're getting down the track a lot
more than we have and we're starting to get more confidence in what we're doing here and in our car and I think it'll just keep getting better. Any time you can go to the final round it's like finishing second, so we have nothing to hang our heads about."
POINT STANDINGS
1. Del Worsham, 513
2. Whit Bazemore, 462
3. John Force, 450
4. Tim Wilkerson, 427
5. Gary Scelzi, 416
Contact: Judy Stropus
DON SCHUMACHER RACING
Scelzi moves into fifth in the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series Funny Car point standings, however, and is now just 97 points behind points leader Del Worsham.
"It smoked the tires at the hit," said a disappointed Scelzi. "You don'teven have a chance. You just beat yourself. It's unfortunate. I don't know what happened.
"It was still a great day. When you get to the final round, it's a good thing, even if you get beat. But I'd just like to run side by side with somebody if that's what's going to happen, but that's not what happened. It's unfortunate. It wasn't a planned deal, obviously. Something either malfunctioned or we missed on the tune-up. It was just one of those things."
Crew chief Mike Neff was stoic. "It looks like the clutch was really aggressive. It got hot. We were up there running for a lot longer than we normally do. And for whatever reason it was just really aggressive when he stepped on the gas and it smoked the tires. We tried backing it down from the prior runs today just to be safe, to make sure we got off the starting line, because I didn't feel the left lane was quite as good as the right lane. But for whatever reason we just had a hiccup in the clutch and it was just too aggressive and came loose.
"It's a good day for us and we're really encouraged with the progress that we've been making here lately. We've made an awful lot of changes to this thing and now we've picked a combination that we're going to stick with and try to make work. We don't have that many runs with it but we're learning every time it goes down the track and we're getting down the track a lot
more than we have and we're starting to get more confidence in what we're doing here and in our car and I think it'll just keep getting better. Any time you can go to the final round it's like finishing second, so we have nothing to hang our heads about."
POINT STANDINGS
1. Del Worsham, 513
2. Whit Bazemore, 462
3. John Force, 450
4. Tim Wilkerson, 427
5. Gary Scelzi, 416
Contact: Judy Stropus
DON SCHUMACHER RACING
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