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<\/a>Jack Beckman. NHRA photo<\/p><\/div>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve won Indy, I\u2019ve won Pomona and a lot of the major races, but Dallas, since I came here in 1986 to spectate at the very first national event here, was one I would have loved to win,\u201d Beckman said. \u201cI had 14 shots at it before I finally closed the deal. To have your name listed as the first (to win a Camping World Wally), that can never be taken away from you and it\u2019s just awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beckman closed the gap in the point standings by defeating teammate Matt Hagan with a winning run of 3.908 at 328.46 mph in his 11,000-horsepower Infinite Hero Foundation Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat. It was his third this year and 33rd in his career. He trails Hagan by four points in the standings with two races left on the season schedule.<\/p>\n
Burn it down<\/strong>: Alexis DeJoria defeated Gary Densham in the opening round of the Funny Car eliminations but shortly before crossing the finish line her car started drifting out of the groove and was headed towards the outside wall before she lifted. After the finish line the engine let go in a huge fireball. DeJoria was able stop the car and get out. DeJoria was charged with an oildown, her third of the season and she was hit with a 15-point deduction. DeJoria\u2019s run was clocked at 4.089 at 273.22 mph. Densham, who started racing in 1974, made his 489th start. He crossed the line in 4.699 at 186.61 mph. DeJoria used a backup car in the quarterfinals but she lost to Ron Capps after he outduel her 3.90 to 11.21.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was not much of a warning except (for) some sparks,\u201d DeJoria said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t see anything (once the body caught fire). I popped my head up (through the roof hatch) and put my foot on the brake handle to try and get it stopped. Then I saw a Safety Safari guy (a member of the NHRA\u2019s safety team) and I did a Dirty Dancing move and just threw my arms out and jumped. Unfortunately, we ruined another car,\u201d she said of the day \u201cWe\u2019re just having some gremlins but we\u2019ll work them out and no matter what happens, it\u2019s always a better day when you\u2019re at the drag races.\u201d.<\/p>\n No go!<\/strong> Disaster struck for NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle rider and current points leader Matt Smith in the opening round. The No. 1 qualifier was unable to get his bike started and his opponent Michael Phillips was able to make the pass and advanced to the first round. It was the first time Smith and his wife Angie Smith qualified No.1 and 2. M. Smith entered the race with a 21-point lead over his teammate Scotty Pollacheck, who also was defeated in the opening round of eliminations. After winning the make-up race from St. Louis on Saturday, Smith carries a 50-point lead over Pollacheck heading into Houston next weekend.<\/p>\n Top Fuel \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n Leah Pruett: \u201cThe resurrection of the Dodge SRT Hellcat Redeye wasn\u2019t quite at fierce as we hoped it would be on this Sunday. We had a very competitive, stout first round against an always tough competitor in (Scott) Palmer. In the second round we had some fuel mixture mix-ups with the cylinders. That should have been an attainable round win and those win lights are just so important right now. We\u2019re not out of this fight by any means and we\u2019re thankful that Dodge is able put on the race at Las Vegas in two weeks. We know exactly where we\u2019re at going into Houston and we hope it\u2019s our time to shine in the big Lone Star State and getting that Wally at Houston.\u201d<\/p>\n Doug Kalitta: \u201cWe lost some ground today but we have two races left to make that up. The last race will be 30 points a round. We will be Houston and I am not sure how similar the conditions will be. This Mac Tools team was strong this weekend. We made some great runs today and we got aggressive in the semifinals. We will put this race behind us. It was great to see so many fans in the stands. I know they had some restricts on attendance but there were a lot of people here. Toyota is based here in Dallas and it was great to show off for them as well as our other sponsors like Ferguson who just came on board this race. I am excited to get to Houston and get in front of some of our Mobil 1 supporters.\u201d<\/p>\n Shawn Langdon: “We weren’t as successful as we wanted to be this weekend. We were quick in qualifying and we made some good runs today. I would have liked to have gotten that win in the semifinals for our DHL team and also to help Doug (Kalitta). There are two more races we will be racing to win both of them. This was the first of two races in Texas. It is good to get to some new tracks. There were a lot of fans here who were excited to see the DHL dragster. I just like getting out here and racing. I am looking forward to getting to Houston next weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n Justin Ashley: \u201cIt was one of those weekends. On the one hand we ran really well. We qualified No. 2 and made a career best run with a 3.68. (Crew chief) Aaron Brooks and the team did an awesome job. We just have something going on with the car that we have to fix and figure out. The bottom line is we will get it resolved and it will just take some time. These guys will do a deep dive this week and we will all improve. Any time you have some carnage. I think it helps that we will be back at the track next week. You really don\u2019t want to stew on it too long. It is important to have a short memory. Part of what helps that is going to another race within five days. We will just put this race behind us. We are going to do everything we can to move forward in the right direction. On any given weekend there are positives and negatives. You have to focus on the positive. That is really important. For us the big positive was that 3.68 second run. It was a nice high when I heard what we ran. That put a big smile on my face for sure. I am just proud of the guys because they work so hard to put us in a position to run like that. To see it pay off in real time was a lot of fun and exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n Tony Schumacher: \u201cThat was a disappointing second round exit, but not disappointed at all in this team. They\u2019re all doing an excellent job. We\u2019re struggling with putting cylinders out and it\u2019s going to cost us some races until we get it figured out. We\u2019re limited on the runs and data we have, but Mike Green and the guys are doing a great job. I\u2019m so happy to be driving again. I love the Texas Motorplex. It\u2019s great to be out here doing what we do. The fans were great here and we want to continue to progress in front of another great crowd in Houston next weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n Antron Brown: \u201cWe made two consistent runs, but certainly not the runs we were looking to make. We had a gremlin pop up and bite us. It was a clean weekend. We didn\u2019t hurt even one part on the car. We just have to keep digging and keep building. We\u2019re very close. I\u2019m very proud of the boys. I know it\u2019s been frustrating for all of us. We have to keep putting that work in. We\u2019re looking forward to Houston. It was our first win in Top Fuel way back in \u201908 with David Powers and we\u2019re eager to get back on the track for Matco (Tools), Global (Electronic Technology), Toyota, Hangsterfer\u2019s and all of the people who have been loyal and support us.\u201d<\/p>\n Funny Car \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n Jack Beckman: \u201cMaybe the best weekend ever. I mean doubling up at Indy in 2015 is going to be awfully hard to exceed, but I so wanted to win at Dallas. My dad (Bob Beckman) lives close to here and he\u2019s been supporting me my whole career and he\u2019s 83-years-old. That might have been my last shot at Dallas and it\u2019s going to be extra special to give him that cowboy hat from the (Texas) Motorplex. It\u2019s perfect. I don\u2019t know that I\u2019ve ever had a better weekend at a drag strip than this.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Matt Hagan: \u201cAll-in-all another really good day here at Dallas for this Pennzoil\/Mopar team. (Jack) Beckman just had a little better day. They have a great race car, but we have a great race car too. We\u2019ve been keeping pace and we\u2019re going to keep doing our thing for the next two races and see how this thing plays out. I\u2019m super excited we get to do it again in a few days at Houston next weekend. We have a lot of momentum. The team is working great. The guys are doing a great job. We just have a little more work to do.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tommy Johnson: \u201cThat was surprising and disappointing. We had such a great running car all weekend. I didn\u2019t expect the tires to come loose. We needed to win that round to keep pace, but that didn\u2019t happen. We aren\u2019t out of this thing yet. There\u2019s two races left and points-and-a-half at the last one. We need to do our job and go rounds and try to win the next two. Still, very happy with this team and happy to be able to race with such a great group here at DSR.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ron Capps: \u201cIt\u2019s tough to gain points when these cars in front of us keep going rounds. We felt so good from qualifying to run 3.90 the first two rounds with back-to-back three point nine zero runs, we felt we had typical Rahn Tobler. Almost like a bracket racing car and we really only tried to improve a little bit against Dickie (Venables) and (Matt) Hagan and if we got beat, we got beat. For some reason the car slowed down a little bit and ran 3.95. It\u2019s a major bummer. Those guys are running so good that you have to improve a little bit to outrun them. It\u2019s nice to go again at Houston next week, but we\u2019re kind of running out of rounds to make a run for the championship. We\u2019ll head to South Texas and try to make some ground up.\u201d<\/p>\n JR Todd: \u201cWe just got outrun in the second round. We\u2019ve got to figure out how to run hard against those DSR cars because they\u2019re the ones stopping everyone right now. We\u2019ll go on to Houston and figure it out. It was kind of bittersweet to do that and then slow down in the second round. It\u2019s always good to win rounds, but we\u2019re out here to win races. We\u2019ve got two races to try to get two wins for DHL, Toyota and all of our great sponsors,\u201d summed up Todd at the end of the day. We have Houston and Las Vegas over the next two weeks. I like our chances. Hopefully conditions will be consistent in Houston and we can build on our performance numbers from this race. I have had a lot of success in Las Vegas. We have the opportunity to finish strong and that is what I want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n Alexis DeJoria: \u201cOur car is running consistently fast. In Q2, we ran a 3.89 with good speed and qualified in the fifth spot. I felt really confident coming into the day. Unfortunately, we have some gremlins that we\u2019re trying to figure out right now. In the first round, I could tell it was running slower than it should have, but it\u2019s race day and even if a cylinder drops you don\u2019t lift. You keep your foot in it until the very end. That\u2019s what I did until I saw sparks and I knew Densham wasn\u2019t next to me, so I lifted right before the finish line and when I did the whole car filled with smoke and fire. It was so bad that I couldn\u2019t see. I couldn\u2019t breathe. I was just trying to stop the car, while taking little short breaths and trying to get out of the car as fast as I could. (Was there any hesitation in running round two?) My first reaction after getting out of the car was \u2018did we win the round?\u2019 and then I was like \u2018ok, it\u2019s on.\u2019 My adrenaline was on level 11. After St. Louis, we learned our lesson and made sure that our back-up car was ready. Obviously, there was some little things we had to adjust. It\u2019s a different chassis, the pedal is different, the seat\u2019s different, so it was a little bit off to what I\u2019m used to. We got ready and it just smoked the tires at the hit. We were hoping to go another round after everything that happened. These ROKiT Toyota guys hauled butt to get everything done in a timely manner. I really have to give them credit for that. They work so hard out here and they\u2019ve had to work extra hard these last two races. We\u2019ve got two races left. Really, this whole season \u2013 what season we\u2019ve had so far – has been about building for next year. We have a good group. I love these guys. We\u2019ll figure it out.\u201d<\/p>\n Pro Stock – <\/strong><\/p>\n Greg Anderson: \u201cToday all day, Texas was good to us. My Summit Racing Chevy was fantastic, it was the best car I had all year by a mile. But I can’t seem to get the two things together, the car and the driver, to win a race right now. You have to have both of those things just right. My guys did a great job, and they saved my bacon all day long. “They tried again in the final and I dropped the ball. I have to figure out what I’m doing wrong. I’m not a guy who cuts a .060 light. I’m doing something wrong, I just don’t know what yet. That’s what I’m going to be working on before we get to Houston next week, because if I can get that figured out, we’re going to win.”<\/p>\n Matt Hartford: “That semifinal run was the one that really set this day apart for us. Obviously everybody is going to say that I strung her out, I was tardy getting in and ask what took me so long to stage, and that’s all the truth. But we have every right to do whatever we want. She pre-staged fairly quickly, and I just decided I was going to take my time, relax, take a couple of deep breaths, and not be in a hurry. There was a lot on the line.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jason Line: “It was a shorter day than we anticipated for the silver Summit Racing Chevy Camaro, but the good news is that my teammates were helpful in making sure we still have a reasonable shot at the championship. Tomorrow is a new day, and we’ll see what Houston [the next event on the tour] holds for us. We’ve got two more races before the Finish Line Tour comes to an end for me, and I’d like to get another one of these trophies.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bo Butner: “I’m planning to go to Houston and win. We had two KB Racing cars in the final this week, and that’s good because I drive a KB Racing Chevy. You never know what can happen these next two races. It’s so tight right now that you really can’t pick who’s going to win.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\nWhat the are saying?<\/h3>\n
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