Super-sponsor Evan Knoll was back in the seat of his Top Fuel dragster for the first time since a non-racing accident in October 2004.
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Jack Wyatt is another racer who is trying real hard. After losing his sponsor following an event win earlier this season, Wyatt is working as hard as he can to be able to continue racing.
After almost not being able to afford to come to the Torco Northern Nationals, Wyatt scraped together enough funding at the last minute, literally, and headed to Martin.
He ended up in the Winner’s Circle after defeating Bob Gilbertson in the final with a 4.980/272.01 to Gilbertson’s 7.298/116.98.
“This really pays off for all the hard work,” Wyatt said. “We’ve worked hard and things haven’t gone our way recently, and we lost our sponsor. We almost never got here. I didn’t know we would have enough money until Wednesday night, then we drove up here and got here Thursday morning, just in time to park.
After the Friday qualifying session Mike Ashley jumped to the top of the qualifying sheet and set a pending IHRA world speed record in the process, blistering the quarter-mile strip with a 4.866 pass at 311.99 mph.
