Funny Car driver Jerry Toliver and the Jim Dunn-owned CANIDAE Racing team will join their NHRA Full
Throttle Series peers in making a return trip to The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway for this
weekend's ninth annual NHRA Las Vegas Nationals. The premier drag racing series made a stop at The
Strip earlier this season in April and returns for the 23rd of 24 races on its schedule.
"What's not to like about going to Las Vegas?" Toliver asked. "It's another first-class, Bruton
Smith-owned track in a great city. And it looks like it's going to be cool there, although it might
hit 80 on Sunday, so the track could be really fast and you should see some good times and great
racing this weekend."
Toliver looks to get the CANIDAE/Lucas Oil/WileyX Chevy back on the performance path it displayed
last month qualifying in the top-half of the field at the U.S. Nationals and then a season-best
third at Dallas. The Jim Dunn Racing team also had its best day of eliminations on the season at
the Texas Motorplex when Toliver defeated Memphis winner Jeff Arend in the first round and Bob
Tasca III in the second round before losing to Jack Beckman in the semifinals.
"We've had some ups and downs with the CANIDAE car this season, there's no question about that,"
Toliver said. "But we're real positive going into these last two races of the season at Las Vegas
and Pomona. We owe it to ourselves, to our sponsors, to the Dunns to give it our best and try to
get a win in these last two races.
"Like I said before, the Countdown to 1 is exciting and probably going to come down to the last
round, but we're not looking to play the role of spoiler and ruin anybody's chances. I don't want
to be a spoiler; I want to be a winner. We're looking to win rounds and win races, and that's what
we're going to try and do."
A two-hour telecast of qualifying coverage for the NHRA Las Vegas Nationals can be seen on ESPN2
and ESPN2 HD on Saturday, Oct. 31, beginning at 11:00 p.m. (ET). Coverage on ESPN2 and ESPN2 HD
continues on Sunday, Nov. 1, when NHRA Race Day kicks off eliminator coverage starting at 2:30 p.m.
(ET), and concludes with three hours of final-eliminations coverage beginning at 7:30 p.m. (ET).
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