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"I want to drive a nitro Funny Car," Scelzi said. "I've wanted to get my license ever since Alan bought that (e-moola.com Funny) car for Bruce (Sarver). I guess the bug got in me when I was driving alcohol Funny Cars and it's never left." Indeed, Scelzi won the 1992 Northwest Nationals at Seattle, the 1992 Chief Auto Parts Nationals at Dallas, and the 1993 Autolite Nationals at Sonoma in an alcohol Funny Car before signing on with Johnson as Top Fuel successor to the late Blaine Johnson, himself killed in a tragic Top Fuel accident in qualifying for the 1996 U.S. Nationals at Indianapolis, Ind. Sticking point on the switch from Top Fuel to Funny Car reportedly is the Team Winston sponsorship. Whether or not Winston could or would move its support from the dragster to a Funny Car is, at this point, a matter of pure speculation. Certainly, there would be no problem with Johnson tuning on a flop.
Sarver has emerged as a contender after winning earlier this year Reading,
Pa. At Houston, he earned his first No. 1 qualifying honor after Johnson,
according to a crew member, "came over before the last qualifying session,
said 'we're going for No. 1,' and turned a few nozzles." The result
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Tony
Schumacher, who confided to still having some lingering dizziness from
the Memphis crash that left him with a badly broken left leg and so
many dislocated fingers that he hasn't been able to make a legible signature
on contracts, climbed back into the cockpit of the U.S. Army dragster
at Houston - but couldn't go.