Erica Enders beat Jason line, Bo Butner, and Tanner Gray on the way to her 22nd Pro Stock victory | NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Top Fuel driver Brittany Force said she knew her team was close to winning its first race of the season. Her team made the right adjustments at the fifth annual New England Nationals at New England Dragway.Matt Hagan won the Funny Car title at New England. Erica Enders won the Pro Stock title. Enders and Brittany Force put two women on the winner's stage at New England. Enders won her first race of the season and won for the first time in nearly two years. The last Pro Stock title she won was the fall Las Vegas event in 2015. “Today is a culmination of everything that happened over the past year and a half, since 2016 was tough for us,” said Enders after the races in New England. “It’s so awesome to have a team that has my back, and it is absolutely the reason why I am able to drive the way I drive.” 
Tanner Gray would line up opposite Erica Enders in the final race at the New England Nationals | Enders, a two-time Pro Stock champion, defeated Tanner Gray in the final race. She beat reigning Pro Stock champion Jason Line and Bo Butner, the leader in the Pro Stock standings, on her way to her 22nd career victory in Pro Stock.Enders moved up to sixth place in the Pro Stock standings. She is the seventh different winner in Pro Stock this season. 
Erica Enders won the Pro Stock race at the 5th Annual New England Nationals in Epping, New Hampshire | Force won the Top Fuel title, her first of the season, defeating Antron Brown in the final round. “We figured things out in Topeka, and I felt like we had our team back, so we knew our first win would be right around the corner,” Force said. “The key to it all is our team sticking together and not giving up, and it definitely paid dividends today.”Force, the daughter of 18-time NHRA Funny Car champion John Force, reached the second round at the races at Heartland Park Topeka in Kansas. She lost to Steve Torrence, but said she felt her team made great strides at Topeka. 
Erica Enders and Brittany Force both took home a Wally at the 5th Annual New England Nationals | Brittany Force defeated Steve Chrisman, Troy Coughlin, and Shawn Langdon before meeting Brown in the final at New England. She won the fourth Top Fuel event of her career and is fifth in the NHRA Top Fuel standings. Leah Pritchett leads the Top Fuel standings and has a 34-point lead over Brown after nine races. 
It was a sold out crowd on Sunday at the New England Nationals in Epping, New Hampshire | Hagan defeated Courtney Force, the sister of Brittany Force, in the Funny Car final. Three women raced in the final of the top-three drag racing divisions at New England. Hagan won the 25th Funny Car event of his career and his third event of the season. “I knew we had a great race car today and the conditions were great, so we knew we were better than our qualifying times,” Hagan said after the races. “Everything went the way it should have today, and things seemed to fall in place for us.”Hagan chipped away at the lead Ron Capps has in the Funny Car standings. Hagan is in second place, 79 points behind Capps after nine races. The 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season continues at the NHRA Summernationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in New Jersey. |
