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NHRA Sonoma Results, Updated Points: Brittany Force Survives a Crazy Day in California

Photo credit: NHRA/National Dragster
Photo credit: NHRA/National Dragster
  • The three-race slog through wildly different conditions will not produce a new master this year.

  • Funny Car winner Bob Tasca III robbed John Force of a father-daughter double-nitro celebration with Top Fuel winner Brittany Force.

  • Pro Stock’s Erica Enders denied longtime rival Greg Anderson his 100th victory.

  • Tearful Joey Gladstone earns his first Pro Stock Motorcycle trophy.


No one will sweep the NHRA’s Western Swing through Denver, Sonoma, and Seattle.

Greg Anderson will have to wait another race day to earn his 100th victory.

And Brittany Force missed the chance to share the winners podium for her first triumph at Sonoma and fourth of the season with dad John Force.

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Denver winners Leah Pruett (Top Fuel), Robert Hight (Funny Car), and Matt Hartford (Pro Stock) lost long before the finals Sunday at the Denso Sonoma Nationals in Northern California Wine Country.

This 12th race on the Camping World Drag Racing Series schedule belonged to Brittany Force (Top Fuel), Bob Tasca III (Funny Car), Erica Enders (Pro Stock), and Joey Gladstone (Pro Stock Motorcycle).

Photo credit: NHRA/National Dragster
Photo credit: NHRA/National Dragster

Brittany Force regains Top Fuel points lead

The Flav-R-Pac Dragster driver had her 15th career Top Fuel trophy and traditional wine-goblet statue from Sonoma Raceway in hand Sunday afternoon, but she also had something more significant: the points lead.

Force defeated Mike Salinas in Sunday’s final round to wrest the lead in the standings from him as the tour heads north to Seattle for her sponsor’s title event at Pacific Raceways.

“I’ve been coming to this racetrack since I was a kid. I’ve always wanted to win here, and we finally pulled it off,” she said.

Force already owned nine of the class’ top 10 fastest speeds of all time, and she still does. But she rewrote that list to include four new entries from Sunday’s eliminations: 337.75 mph, 336.49, 336.07, and 335.48.

Photo credit: NHRA/National Dragster
Photo credit: NHRA/National Dragster