Pro Banal disciplinarian Dallas Glenn is the NHRA’s top amateur for 2021. (RacinToday book photo by Deb Williams)
Dallas Glenn has followed the band of assumption at Ken Black Antagonism to 2021 NHRA Amateur of the Year honors.
Glenn acquaint three wins and bristles final-round appearances during his admission Pro Banal division to top a account of accomplished first-year competitors in the NHRA Camping Apple Drag Antagonism Series.
A longtime aggregation affiliate for KB Antagonism and three-time Pro Banal apple best Jason Line, Glenn got his befalling to drive afterwards Band retired from the cockpit afterward the COVID-19 impacted 2020 campaign.
“I’ve been accepting a lot of fun in the car,” said Glenn, a 30-year-old built-in of Covington, Wash. “I feel I can get in, not (be) nervous. I apperceive what to expect, I can run through the motions and focus on the bigger details. Back you get a lot of runs in a car you no best anticipate about the things you accept to do, you can focus on the little actuality and the things you accept to do aloof arise naturally. There is a accent and routine.”
A accumulation of arch motorsports journalists called the champ via a voting arrangement based aloft the afterward criteria: Number of challenge competed in, achievement on and off the racetrack, accord in NHRA promotions and relationships with fans, sponsors, and media. Glenn accustomed the accolade during Sunday’s NHRA feast at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, Calif., area he accomplished third in the Countdown to the Championship playoff standings.
Originally appointed for a part-time schedule, primary advocacy from RAD Torque Systems accustomed Glenn’s affairs to awning the full, 17-race 2021 division and abide into 2022. With his family-based antagonism background, Glenn accepted a quick abstraction abaft the caster of a “Factory Hot Rod” while continuing to about-face wrenches on his Chevrolet Camaro SS.
Glenn won the four-wide accident at zMAX Dragway in Concord, N.C., in aloof his fourth career start. Glenn was outstanding on the starting line, advancing to final circuit at Apple Advanced Technology Raceway in Madison, Ill., and Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway, and active to one No. 1 qualifier.
Glenn’s win at Heartland Park in Topeka featured a absolute 0.000-second acknowledgment time in the final round. Glenn became aloof the sixth disciplinarian in Pro Banal history to column a absolute acknowledgment time in a final round. He additionally added a achievement aftermost ages at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, eliminating four-time apple best Erica Enders with an 0.001-second acknowledgment time in the final.
Line _ apple best in 2006, 2011 and 2016 _ retired from active to focus on shop-based chase alertness at KB Racing, home to anew crowned five-time Pro Banal apple champ Greg Anderson. Glenn’s actualization has added abrupt abyss to the alignment based in Mooresville, N.C.
“He’s (Glenn) a attenuate bird nowadays,” said Line, champ of the 2004 NHRA Amateur of the Year award. “He has a affection for the action that is not generally apparent anymore. A lot of bodies appetite to be chase car drivers; that’s the accessible part. Dallas can do a lot of things _ he’s actual accomplished _ and he wants to apprentice all aspects of it. He’s a hard-worker. He’s authoritative the best of his opportunities. It’s fun to watch.”
Glenn grew up one artery avenue abroad from Pacific Raceways in Kent, Wash., aural aural of the NHRA’s anniversary summertime “Western Swing.” From antagonism Division Midgets on amphitheater advance back he was 6-years-old to active his grandmother’s 1968 Chevrolet El Camino at bounded dragstrips, Glenn activate success in a amusement aggregate by his family.
“My dad won the bounded clue championship in 2005 with our ’55 Chevy base wagon,” Glenn said. “It’s an all-steel car added than the nose. I started in ’07 back I got in the car. I admired aggregate about it; I had a adroitness for it and accepted how it all worked. I started antagonism the ’68 El Camino that I still accept and chase from time to time. I’ve had a lot of success with that.”
Glenn led a chic that featured Top Fuel standout Josh Hart, who tallied two wins during his amateur campaign; Top Fuel’s Krista Baldwin, Artie Allen, Joe Morrison and Buddy Hull; Funny Car drivers Bobby Bode and Chad Green and Pro Stock’s Mike Callahan, Rob Tucker and Marty Robertson.
“I knew appealing early-on that Pro Banal was area I capital to go,” Glenn said. “I had told bodies for years, akin afore I got to drive, that I capital to assignment on a Pro Banal aggregation and everybody was like, ‘OK, that’s great. But what are you absolutely activity to do?’ I accept there are not abounding bodies who get to do this and the affairs of me authoritative it are appealing slim. But if you accumulate your arch bottomward and focus on one affair you can accomplish annihilation happen.
“KB Antagonism has a lot of academician ability and acquaintance that I’ve been aggravating to carry as abundant as I can; I anticipate I’ve abstruse a lot over the aftermost few years. I bet we accept over 10,000 runs at KB Racing. Appealing abundant if it’s happened in a chase car it’s happened to Jason at atomic once. If I accept a catechism about anything, he says ‘Do this and that.’ Alive on Jason’s car for eight years and watching him drive, I’m abiding some of my active actualization is like his.”
Justin Ashley, the 2020 NHRA Amateur of the Year recipient, angry in a able 2021 division by acceptable already in Top Fuel, advancing to three final circuit and finishing fourth in points.
After adequate some bottomward time for the holidays, Glenn will activate advancing for the 2022 division that begins Feb. 17-20 with the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals at Auto Club Raceway in Pomona.
“I’ve been acknowledged and I’m beholden for that,” Glenn said. “I’m absolutely athirst and I won’t stop until I see the No. 1 on the ancillary of the car.”
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Tony Stewart Antagonism (TSR) has arise its aggregation arch calendar for the team’s 2022 admission in the NHRA Camping Apple Drag Antagonism Series with Top Fuel disciplinarian Leah Pruett and Funny Car best Matt Hagan.
Neal Strausbaugh will be aggregation arch for nine-time Top Fuel event-winner Pruett, while Dickie Venables will abide his longtime role as aggregation arch for 39-time Funny Car event-winner Hagan. Both Strausbaugh and Venables accept abutting TSR from Don Schumacher Antagonism (DSR), area the duo accept spent a accumulated 25 years.
Strausbaugh has been an abettor aggregation arch back 2008 alive beyond both Top Fuel and Funny Car, aboriginal with Cory McClenathan in Top Fuel (2008), Tony “The Sarge” Schumacher in Top Fuel (2009-2016), “Fast” Jack Beckman in Funny Car (2017-2018) and Pruett (2019-present).
Venables has logged two stints at DSR, spending 2010-2011 with Funny Car disciplinarian Johnny Gray afore abiding in 2013 to advance Hagan’s Funny Car effort.
“Joe Gibbs accomplished me a continued time ago that you win with people, and Neal and Dickie are the appropriate guys to advice anatomy this aggregation and get it accessible for abutting year,” said team-owner Stewart, a three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion. “For the accomplished year-and-a-half, I’ve gotten to apperceive Neal and Dickie and accept apparent contiguous how they assignment and collaborate with anybody on the crew. Both accept a able assignment belief and apperceive what they’re doing, but they additionally apperceive anniversary added and their drivers absolutely well. That affectionate of acquaintance and chain is massively important as we anatomy this affairs from the arena up.”
Strausbaugh will be abutting at TSR by co-crew arch Mike Domagala and car arch Ryan McGilvry. Venables is bringing the aforementioned cadre who accept helped Hagan acquire two of his three Funny Car titles (2014 and 2020). Specifically, co-crew arch Michael Knudsen and car arch Alex Conaway will abide with Venables at TSR.
“Being a allotment of TSR is a dream situation,” said Strausbaugh, a built-in of Hillsboro, Ill. “There are a lot of abundant bodies who are a allotment of this team, and it starts at the top with Tony. It’s congenital by racers, for racers, and we accept all the assets we charge to be successful.”
Texan Venables, who has spent the aftermost 25 years in Plainfield, Ind., guided Hagan to a additional point accomplishment abaft DSR’s Ron Capps in the 2021 Countdown to the Championship playoff standings.
“I’ve been accomplishing this a lot of years and I candidly haven’t looked advanced to a affairs as abundant as I’m attractive advanced to this one,” Venables said. “Being able to accompany all my guys over will advice us get started on the appropriate bottom and absolutely abound this program.
“That’s what intrigues me about this befalling best of all. I adore actuality able to anatomy things from scratch. I adore actuality able to assignment with bodies and advise them to assignment in assertive roles.”
TSR will accomplish its NHRA admission during the 2022 season-opener Feb. 17-20 at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona.
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NHRA competitors in Top Fuel and Funny Car will challenge 22-race schedules in 2022, topping the chic calendar for all classes in the NHRA.
The Pro Banal chic will run 18 challenge in 2022, including the aboriginal bristles challenge of the year. Pro Banal will chase in Epping, N.H., at New England Dragway for a additional beeline year and chase that with its aboriginal actualization at Bristol (Tenn.) Dragway back 2018 for the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals on June 17-19.
Pro Stockers additionally will chase at all three stops on NHRA’s acclaimed “Western Swing” in July, featuring stops in Morrison, Colo.; Sonoma, Calif. and Kent, Wash. Pacific Raceways will host its aboriginal NHRA accident back 2019, back the Flav-R-Pac NHRA Northwest Nationals booty abode on July 29-31. Pro Banal will abutting its 2022 attack at the schedule’s final bristles races.
Pro Banal Motorcycle riders will chase at 15 challenge abutting season, including the acceptable opener at the AMALIE Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville (Fla.) Raceway on March 10-13. The two-wheeled chic additionally will arise at Richmond Raceway on May 13-15 for the Virginia NHRA Nationals as Virginia Motorsports Park hosts its aboriginal NHRA accident back 2019.
Pro Banal Bike will acknowledgment to Heartland Park in Topeka for the aboriginal time back 1997 on Aug. 12-14 for the Menards NHRA Nationals and additionally will run at Apple Advanced Technology Raceway in Madison, Ill., afterwards not aggressive at the ability in 2021.
NHRA’s four able categories additionally will challenge the final civic accident appointed for Houston Raceway Park in Baytown, Texas _ the Mopar Express Lane NHRA SpringNationals on April 22-24.
NHRA’s Pro Mod Drag Antagonism Series will run 10 challenge in 2022, including the acceptable season-opener in Gainesville. Pro Mod will acknowledgment to Richmond in May and accomplish a additional beeline actualization in Brainerd (Minn.) International during the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals on Aug. 18-21.
After antagonism in Indianapolis at the Dodge//SRT NHRA U.S. Nationals, Pro Mod will accomplishment the division with after challenge at Concord, N.C.; Gateway, Ill., and the season-finale at Texas Motorplex in Ennis on Oct. 13-16 during the Texas NHRA FallNationals. It marks the aboriginal time Pro Mod will accomplishment the division at Hall of Famer Billy Meyer’s Texas Motorplex.
Like Pro Mod, the Constant Aviation Branch Banal Showdown will see its division achieve at Texas Motorplex, appearance the aftermost of eight challenge during the 2022 campaign. The Constant Aviation Branch Banal Showdown will accessible its division in Gainesville and acknowledgment to Bristol Dragway in June. Top drivers additionally will chase for architect aloof in Dodge Challenger Drag Paks, Chevrolet COPO Camaros and Ford Mustang Cobra Jets at stops in Concord, N.C.; Richmond, Va.; Norwalk, Ohio; Indianapolis and Reading, Pa.
Top Fuel Harley will run the aboriginal of six appointed challenge in 2022 at Gainesville, while additionally absolute its division at Texas Motorplex. Top Fuel Harley will chase at zMAX Dragway in the spring, Richmond, Bristol and Indy afore the aftermost chase of the year at Texas Motorplex _ which will host the finales for Pro Mod, Constant Aviation Branch Banal Showdown and Top Fuel Harley for the aboriginal time in clue history.
The Mountain Motor Pro Banal class, which appearance accepted and able 800-plus cubic-inch engines, will attempt at four challenge in 2022. The division will alpha at Richmond and accommodate NHRA Camping Apple Drag Antagonism Series challenge at Brainerd, Indianapolis and the abatement chase at zMAX Dragway in Concord, N.C.
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NHRA will barrage its Branch X (FX) exhibition antagonism chic during the 2022 Camping Apple Drag Antagonism Series season. Billed as NHRA Branch X presented by Holley, the FX chic will arch the gap amid Branch Banal Showdown and Pro Stock, and be aloof for 2019 and newer bogus automobiles, including the Chevrolet COPO Camaro, Dodge Challenger Drag Pak and Ford Mustang Cobra Jet.
The FX chic will accept a minimum weight absolute of 2,650-pounds, about 1,000-pounds lighter than a Branch Banal Showdown car, with binding chiral transmission. FX will be included in the 2022 division with Competition Eliminator beyond all seven NHRA Capacity and will admission as a 2022 exhibition chic alpha mid-year at baddest events, with the abeyant to advertise big achievement numbers in a lightweight, adapted class.
“We’re acutely aflame to admission this new and blood-tingling FX chic in 2022,” NHRA Civic Tech Director Lonnie Grim said in a statement. “Our ambition is this will become a heads-up chic at baddest NHRA Camping Apple Drag Antagonism Series challenge in 2023 and will abide to be included in Competition Eliminator beyond all divisions.
“This chic will be one added solid accession to the agitative calendar of actual quick NHRA door-slammer classes. There is absurd abeyant in this class. The actuality that it is manually-shifted with able achievement adequacy and will acquiesce admirers to adore the sounds of 10,000 RPM will be a huge draw for admirers and racers alike.”
COPO Chevrolet Camaros will use the 630-horsepower Magnuson 2.65-L supercharger, while the DragPak Dodge Challengers will chase with the 630-horsepower, 3.0-L Whipple. Ford’s Cobra Jet 327 Mustang agent aggregate will be a 610-horsepower, 3.0-L Whipple unit.
Each anatomy charge be OEM dimensional as well, acceptation no alterations. Anniversary charge affection animate roof and division anatomy panels, while the anatomy on anniversary car charge accommodated 25.1, 25.2, 25.3 specifications.
FX cars will chase on tires that are 33-inches alpine and 10.5-inches wide, which are added than FSS cars, aperture up the achievability for runs in the six-second range.
“This is article we’ve been alive on for absolutely a while and we’re absolutely aflame for the admission of the FX class,” Grim said. “We’ve brought a lot of new technology into this chic and it will be a 100 percent banal dimensional car. It’s activity to be a chic that embraces technology and affordability, and has huge abeyant from a achievement standpoint.”
Other highlights for the FX class: Doors charge be anatomic and applicable from central and outside, and of OEM dimension; cars charge be absolutely stock-appearing, including bonanza covers, (front and rear) mandatory, constant with make, archetypal and year claimed; anniversary car charge be able with a banal grille of aforementioned agreement and architecture for specific anatomy used; complete headlight and taillight assemblies charge be retained in banal aboriginal branch location.
The abounding set of rules for the FX chic are accessible at nhraracer.com.
(Editor’s Note: John Sturbin is a Texas-based announcer specializing in motorsports. During a abreast 30-year career with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, he won the Bloys Britt Accolade for top motorsports adventure of the year (1991) as advised by The Associated Press; accustomed the Civic Hot Rod Association’s Media Accolade (1997) and several centralized Star-Telegram honors. He additionally was countdown almsman of the Texas Motor Speedway Excellence in Journalism Accolade (2009). His account of freelance audience has included Texas Motor Speedway, the Dallas Morning News, New York Newsday, NASCAR Wire Service and Ford Racing).
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Final 2021 Countdown to the Championship point standings (top-10) afterward the 56th anniversary Auto Club NHRA Finals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona:
Top Fuel _1. Steve Torrence, 2,873; 2. Brittany Force, 2,637; 3. Mike Salinas, 2,614; 4. Justin Ashley, 2,556; 5. Billy Torrence, 2,498; 6. Antron Brown, 2,427; 7. Leah Pruett, 2,401; 8. Clay Millican, 2,384; 9. Shawn Langdon, 2,310; 10. Doug Kalitta, 2,290.
Funny Car _ 1. Ron Capps, 2,676; 2. Matt Hagan, 2,639; 3. Bob Tasca III, 2,586; 4. Cruz Pedregon, 2,555; 5. John Force, 2,543; 6. Alexis DeJoria, 2,526; 7. J.R. Todd, 2,498; 8. Robert Hight, 2,478; 9. Tim Wilkerson, 2,361; 10. Jim Campbell, 2,238.
Pro Banal _ 1. Greg Anderson, 2,752; 2. Erica Enders, 2,645; 3. Dallas Glenn, 2,575; 4. Kyle Koretsky, 2,532; 5. Aaron Stanfield, 2,415; 6. Troy Coughlin Jr., 2,393; 7. Mason McGaha, 2,378; 8. Chris McGaha, 2,361; 9. Matt Hartford, 2,353; 10. Deric Kramer, 2,311.
Pro Banal Motorcycle _ 1. Matt Smith, 2,721; 2. Angelle Sampey, 2,590; 3. Steve Johnson, 2,586; 4. Eddie Krawiec, 2,511; 5. Karen Stoffer, 2,499; 6. Scotty Pollacheck, 2,407; 7. Angie Smith, 2,327; 8. Joey Gladstone, 2,267; 9. Andrew Hines, 2,259; 10. Ryan Oehler, 2,230.
FINAL 2021 COUNTDOWN TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE/PROFESSIONAL WINNERS
Sunday, Sept. 12 _ Maple Grove Raceway, Reading, Pa. Billy Torrence (Top Fuel); Tommy Johnson Jr. (Funny Car); Greg Anderson (Pro Stock); Steve Johnson (Pro Banal Motorcycle).
Sunday, Sept. 19 _zMAX Dragway, Concord, N.C. Josh Hart (Top Fuel); Tim Wilkerson (Funny Car); Kyle Koretsky (Pro Stock); Angelle Sampey (Pro Banal Motorcycle).
Sunday, Sept. 26 _ Apple Advanced Technology Raceway, Madison, Ill. Steve Torrence (Top Fuel); Matt Hagan (Funny Car); Erica Enders (Pro Stock).
Sunday, Oct. 10 _ Texas Motorplex, Ennis. Justin Ashley (Top Fuel); Ron Capps (Funny Car); Greg Anderson (Pro Stock); Matt Smith (Pro Banal Motorcycle).
Sunday, Oct. 17 _ Bristol (Tenn.) Dragway. Mile Salinas (Top Fuel); Alexis DeJoria (Funny Car); Angelle Sampey (Pro Banal Motorcycle).
Sunday, Oct. 31 _ The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Steve Torrence (Top Fuel); Cruz Pedregon (Funny Car); Dallas Glenn (Pro Stock); Steve Johnson (Pro Banal Motorcycle).
Sunday, Nov. 14 _ Auto Club Speedway, Pomona, Calif. Steve Torrence (Top Fuel); Bob Tasca III (Funny Car); Greg Anderson (Pro Stock); Matt Smith (Pro Banal Motorcycle).
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