She did it again!
In front of a packed house, Brittany Force made history with a 343.16 mph run to lead Top Fuel.
Brittany Force made the fastest run in NHRA history on Friday in front of a huge crowd at Sonoma Raceway, setting the speed world record and taking the provisional No. 1 spot at the 37th annual Denso NHRA Sonoma Nationals presented by PowerEdge.
Force went a track-record 3.645-seconds at a stunning 343.16-mph in her Monster Energy dragster, shattering the speed record of 341.85 she just set last Sunday in Seattle. It was the seventh 340-mph pass for Force since April as the two-time world champion looks for her third No. 1 qualifier of the season and the 55th in her career. Force went 304.94 to the eighth-mile in a truly monumental and special moment, making history at one of her favorite tracks on the NHRA tour.
“I have to credit David Grubnic and John Collins and the whole team. I’m so proud of them. This is incredible,” Force said. “On that run it actually moved around a little and I thought about taking my foot out of it for a second and then I said, ‘No, I can get it there.’
“I couldn’t hear anything on my radio and then they repeated the 343 speed and I thought they were joking. I’m so pumped and so excited to do this in front of all the fans here. The stands were packed.
This is still settling in. We’ve run great mph lately, but our goal is always elapsed time, not mph but to jump over 342 and go right to 343, I still can’t believe we did it. We’ve worked hard to get here but we’ve got a cleaner more consistent package than we’ve had.”