JR Todd Once Again Scores
Category: NHRA / Drag Racing | Posted August 01, 2006 by Brian Losness | Source: Ken Skute

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JR Todd has once again showed he and crew chief Jimmy Walsh are the real deal as they once again have taken out the man to be the man at Sonoma. Todd waded through a field of tough cars to meet up with reigning Top Fuel World Champion Tony Schumacher in the final. Once again the former jr dragster star showed his driving prowess as he left first and never trailed in his 4.61 to 4.67 second win over Schumacher. Beating Tony and that team once for your first trophy ever is like a dream. To do it twice in three races is unreal. I can't even believe this is happening. You work so hard just to get to this level and you don't even think what it will be like to actually win."

In funny car, it was one of the JFR crew that made their way to the winners circle, that was a very shaggy looking Eric Medlin. Medlin who hadn't won for nearly one calendar year. He defeated the guy who's place he took at JFR Tony Pedregon in the Q Power Monte Carlo for Pedregon Brothers Racing. Eric on the second race of using a very unique looking two hole injector hat, that is suppose to give much better air flow into the motor at high speeds. Medlin ran a very stout 4.85 second run to cover the slowing Pedregons 5.02.




Tony wasn't the only Pedregon making news at Sonoma, brother Cruz was making news but in a very different manner. As seen in these exclusive photos by Ken Slute of Racers Edge Photography

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Pedregon was in a sence having a Bar-B-Cruz on Saturday afternoon. This was a fire that was like the ones in the 70's that funny car drivers endured. It lit up and never seemed to go out, and continued to burn and burn all the way up the hill in the shut down area.





Cruz was able to bail out on his own unscathed, but this is the third fire in about 5 events he has had, and has to be getting just a little hot under the collar. (did I say that??)

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