NHRA

Bristol: Doug Herbert race summary

Snap-On Racing: Grubnic stops Herbert in first round at Bristol. BRISTOL, Tenn., April 28, 2002 - It wasn't the kind weekend Doug Herbert and his Snap-on Racing Top Fuel team was anticipating, and he said so following his first-round loss in the ...

Published: Apr 29, 2002, 6:55 PM

Copy link

Share on Viber

Add as a preferred source

Snap-On Racing:
Grubnic stops Herbert in first round at Bristol.

BRISTOL, Tenn., April 28, 2002 - It wasn't the kind weekend Doug Herbert and his Snap-on Racing Top Fuel team was anticipating, and he said so following his first-round loss in the Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Dragway Sunday.

"It wasn't a good weekend for us," Herbert commented. "We really haven't had one all year."

Herbert and tuner/assistant crew chief Johnny West hoped to turn good test results two weeks ago into better performances, but it didn't happen. The car smoked the tires on its first two qualifying runs but came back Saturday with runs of 4.774 and 4.765 seconds Saturday to earn the No. 10 starting berth.

Tire smoke returned in the opening round against David Grubnic, who won with a 4.911 at 295.53 mph to Herbert's 4.948 at 300.06.

Changing weather conditions all weekend, going from very cool to warm to wet before eliminations began an hour late caused problems for many crew chiefs.

"The weather conditions changed so much I couldn't keep up with them," West said.

After six of 23 races, Herbert is ninth with 215 points, 21 behind eighth-place Rhonda Hartman-Smith.

Herbert won't have to wait long to get back into action. The Summit Racing Equipment Southern Nationals race takes place Friday through Sunday at Atlanta Dragway in Commerce, Ga.

Qualified: No. 10, 4.765 seconds at 306.88 mph

First round: David Grubnic, 4.911 at 295.53 def. Herbert

Pro Winners: Larry Dixon, Top Fuel; Whit Bazemore, Funny Car; Warren Johnson, Pro Stock

-sor-

We want your opinion!

What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?

Take our 5 minute survey.

- The Motorsport.com Team

Read and post comments

Share Or Save This Story

Copy link

Share on Viber

Previous article Bristol: Skoal Racing eliminations summary

Next article Bristol: Team Koretsky eliminations summary

Top Comments

There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?

View More & Comment

Latest news

Spy shots of 2027 NASCAR Ford Mustang testing at Charlotte, but what's different?

NASCAR Cup

NAS NASCAR Cup

Charlotte II

2 h

Spy shots of 2027 NASCAR Ford Mustang testing at Charlotte, but what's different?

Five key takeaways from F1's big African Grand Prix reveal in Rwanda

Formula 1

F1 Formula 1 3 h

Five key takeaways from F1's big African Grand Prix reveal in Rwanda

Niels Koolen makes switch to Abel Motorsports ahead of 2027 Indy NXT campaign

Indy NXT

IndL Indy NXT 4 h

Niels Koolen makes switch to Abel Motorsports ahead of 2027 Indy NXT campaign

GT World Challenge Portimao: All you need to know about season finale featuring Max Verstappen

GT World Challenge Europe Endurance

WCEE GT World Challenge Europe Endurance 5 h

GT World Challenge Portimao: All you need to know about season finale featuring Max Verstappen

Subscribe and access Motorsport.com with your ad-blocker.

From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.

You have 2 options:

Become a subscriber.
Disable your adblocker.

Subscribe now Already subscribed? Sign in here

Already disabled your adblocker?
Reload page

Manage Alerts