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KEEPING SCORE; The old NHRA points system didn't fade away quietly.(Motorsports)(National Hot Rod Association)
Byline: BILL STEPHENS
The NHRA will institute a new tournament-style championship points system similar to NASCAR's in 2007, and if the new structure delivers the way the old one did in 2006, there will be high-fives all around.
Tony Schumacher won career Top Fuel championship No. 4, but how he did it was truly uncanny. He trailed teammate Melanie Troxel by 336 points at the season's halfway mark before Doug Kalitta moved into the lead in July. Schumacher surged in the second half and pulled to within 45 points of Kalitta entering the season's concluding race in Pomona, California.
After Kalitta lost in the Pomona semifinals, Schumacher had to not only win the race, but set a new national elapsed time record, worth an additional 20 points, to overhaul him for the crown. The fact that Schumacher accomplished both in the season's very last round of racing will undoubtedly become one of the NHRA's most enduring pieces of modern-day folklore.
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Source: HighBeam Research, KEEPING SCORE; The old NHRA points system didn't fade away...