Saturday News & Notes from the Denso NHRA Sonoma Nationals presented by PowerEdge

About last night…

With her landmark 343.16 mph speed, Brittany Force has set the speed record three times this year and it’s now five mph faster than it was at the start of 2025. Perhaps more impressively, Force now has nine of the 10 fastest speeds in the history of Top Fuel including seven runs over 340-mph. The only run that prevents the Monster team from sweeping the speed charts is Doug Kalitta’s 341.34 mph speed from last week in Sonoma. That is the fifth fastest run in the class.

Force has also run over 340 on four of her last ten runs heading into Saturday’s final qualifying in Sonoma. Overlooked in the excitement of Force’s 343 run is Clay Millican’s 335.15 run, which is a career best.

In Pro Stock, the Elite team has definitely closed the gap to the rival KB Titan squad and the best evidence of that is Greg Stanfied’s 6.480-second run which is just eight thousandths behind Greg Anderson’s current low E.T. of 6.472. Aaron Stanfield is also close with a 6.489…

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