(Photographs by Kim Fuller) • Brittany Power made the quickest run in NHRA historical past on Friday in entrance of an enormous crowd at Sonoma Raceway, setting the pace world document and taking the provisional No. 1 spot on the thirty seventh annual Denso NHRA Sonoma Nationals introduced by PowerEdge. Two-time High Gasoline World Champion Brittany Power unleashed the monster in her Monster Power dragster, re-setting an NHRA nationwide document 343.16 miles per hour, the quickest pace ever achieved in motor racing. Her pace at 660 toes was a jaw-dropping 304.94 mph.
Right here is her Friday night time efficiency breaking Doug Kalitta’s monitor ET document (3.649) and obliterated the monitor pace document she set Friday afternoon (338.94 mph).
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“I’ve to credit score David Grubnic and John Collins and the entire crew. I’m so pleased with them. That is unbelievable,” Power stated. “On that run it really moved round just a little and I thought of taking my foot out of it for a second after which I stated, ‘No, I can get it there.’ For the 2013 NHRA Rookie-of-the-Yr, it was the third time this season she has eclipsed her personal nationwide pace document and Sonoma Raceway is the fourth totally different monitor on which she has damaged the 340 barrier.
Doug Kalitta is second with a 3.661 at 332.84 and Clay Millican is at present third with a 3.699 at 335.15.
Matt Hagan (Humorous Automobile), Greg Anderson (Professional Inventory) and Richard Gadson (Professional Inventory Bike) are additionally the provisional No. 1 qualifiers on the twelfth of 20 races throughout the 2025 NHRA Mission Meals Drag Racing Sequence season.
Hagan continued to roll after successful Sunday in Seattle, taking the provisional No. 1 spot in Humorous Automobile with an excellent run of three.861 at 332.59 in his 12,000-horsepower Johnson’s Horsepowered Storage Dodge//SRT Hellcat. The four-time world Champ is on the lookout for his first No. 1 qualifier of the season at Sonoma Raceway.
It’s one of many few locations the standout has by no means gained and he would love to alter that this weekend and preserve rolling for Tony Stewart Racing. The crew has proven steady enchancment underneath first-year crew chief Mike Knudsen and the crew took one other step in entrance of an enormous crowd Friday night time in Sonoma.
Rookie Spencer Hyde is at present second with a career-best 3.865 at 333.58 and Paul Lee (above) went 3.890 at 299.00 to sit down third.
In Professional Inventory, stellar circumstances made for extra record-breaking runs for a second straight week and reigning world champion Greg Anderson took benefit on Friday in Sonoma, setting the monitor document with a run of 6.472 at 210.14 in his HendrickCars.com Chevrolet Camaro. Ought to that maintain, Anderson would get his fifth No. 1 qualifier of the season and the 137th in his profession. Professional Inventory factors chief Dallas Glenn, who gained on Sunday in Seattle, is correct behind with a 6.473 and Greg Stanfield made a pair of stable runs, together with a 6.480 that has him third.
A month after successful his first profession Professional Inventory Bike race, Richard Gadson would love so as to add one other first this weekend and the second-year standout is on monitor to take action, claiming the highest place by way of two periods with a run of 6.702 at 200.77 on his RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki.
Qualifying continues at 11:45 a.m. PT on Saturday on the Denso NHRA Sonoma Nationals introduced by PowerEdge at Sonoma Raceway. Saturday’s TV Schedule is 2Fast2Tasty Problem Saturday, July 26, 2025 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET on FOX Community, with the PSM All-Star Callout Saturday, July 26, 2025 9:30 PM – 10:30 PM ET on FS1.
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