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Sat, 17 Oct 2026, 21:40 PM

Junior Dragster Shootout Round 1 Eliminations

By Dave Rowe

ENNIS, Texas - Results of round 1 eliminations in Summit Junior Dragster Shootout at the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series, 41st annual Texas NHRA FallNationals:


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  407 Carter Crawford                      4253 Brett Gonzales               
E1   ****WINNER****  0.102 12.092  53.08                     0.000  8.063  80.19
              Dial: 12.10 (+/-): -0.008            JRD  Dial: 8.08 (+/-): -0.017
 Qualified:             #5 0.090                                #1 0.024

8:04 p.m. Gonzales is perfect off of the line but takes too much stripe and breaks out.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  423 Matthew Kole Thompson                4201 Dawson Rogers                
E1                  -0.017  9.128  71.83     ****WINNER**** -0.015  7.918  81.57
         JRD  Dial: 9.11 (+/-):  0.018             JRD  Dial: 8.00 (+/-): -0.082
 Qualified:             #6 -0.003                                #2 0.034

Thompson is too quick off of the line and goes red giving the win to Rogers.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  401 Abigail Wilson                       4685 Corbin Pennington            
E1   ****WINNER****  0.075  8.044  78.75                     0.090 11.961  53.35
         JRD  Dial: 8.01 (+/-):  0.034                  Dial: 12.02 (+/-): -0.059
 Qualified:             #3 0.040                                #7 -0.015

Wilson gets the advantage off of the line;Pennington breaks out.

Wilson will take on Crawford in the next round.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 5031 Jhene Martinez                       4902 Tyler Wells                  
E1                   0.042  8.836  72.97     ****WINNER****  0.018  8.231  81.31
              Dial: 8.92 (+/-): -0.084                  Dial: 8.26 (+/-): -0.029
 Qualified:             #4 0.043                                #8 -0.015

Wells gets the advantage off of the line and takes the double breakout win.

Wells will take on Rogers in the next round.