| Del Worsham is currently fourth in the NHRA Full Throttle Funny Car point standings; he
trails third place by 59 points and first place by 119 points.
| Worsham has two wins this season; he visited victory circle at St. Louis and Bristol
earlier this season. One race ago at Joliet, Ill., Worsham was the No. 12 qualifier and lost to Tim
Wilkerson in the first round of eliminations.
| Last year at Englishtown, Worsham was the No. 5 qualifier; he defeated Gary Scelzi and
Robert Hight before losing to Tim Wilkerson in the semifinals. Worsham won at Englishtown in 1991
and 2005.
| Worsham has 24 wins in his Funny Car career; he is seventh on the NHRA's all-time Funny
Car wins list trailing sixth place by just two wins.
Worsham prior to Englishtown:
"We're fourth in points so we lost a couple of spots with our second-round loss last week, but
that's OK. I'm still optimistic about this weekend in Englishtown; our car showed some good
promise in Joliet for the summer races we are about to start running.
"We've finished racing at the cool-weather tracks for a while now. The races where you can throw a
bunch of power at the track and go fast are finished until the fall, and we've reached the point
where we all have to kind of finesse the cars down the track. The key is mostly the clutch set up,
but we haven't really been able to work on our hot set up very much. We tested a couple of weeks
ago in Atlanta hoping for hot, humid conditions, but it was cool and dry. So our team really
doesn't have much of a notebook on hot race tracks and how to race on them yet.
"We also go to Englishtown with some heavy hearts because this is the one-year anniversary of when
Scott (Kalitta) lost his life. Scott's death got a lot of safety improvements happening. It was
shortly after this race last year that we went to 1000 feet instead of a quarter mile, and a lot of
the tracks are reworking the gravel run-off area at the end of the tracks. So while Scott's death
was tragic, it did prompt some safety improvements that we'd been thinking about for a while but
hadn't made."
For additional information on Del Worsham, please visit http://www.alanjohnsonracing.com to
view his full bio.
About Alan Johnson Al-Anabi Racing:
Alan Johnson Al-Anabi Racing is a partnership between Alan Johnson and His Highness Sheikh Khalid
Bin Hamad Al Thani. The team is a two-car NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Team fielding entries in
Top Fuel and Funny Car competition. At the forefront of this partnership is Al Thani's goal to
promote the domestic and international awareness of Motorsports in the nation of Qatar. Johnson is
an eight-time NHRA Top Fuel Championship crew chief. For additional information on Alan Johnson
and the rest of the team, please visit http://www.alanjohnsonracing.com.
