Lawrenceburg native in the hunt for NHRA season title

(LAS VEGAS, NV.) – Lawrenceburg native JR Todd is in the hunt for his second NHRA championship. 

Todd drives in the Funny Car division and won the Texas FallNationals with a 331.76 mile-per-hour run in 3.931 seconds against current points leader Matt Hagan.  

That win places Todd 119 points outside of the leader position with just two races remaining this season. 

The final races are in Las Vegas and Pomona, California, over the next two weekends. 

If Todd has two successful events, and gets a little bit of luck, he could earn his first NHRA championship since 2018. 

“I don’t want to say it’s a long shot, because anything can happen in Vegas, and you’ve got points and a half in Pomona. We’ll just go to Vegas and see what shakes out there. But either way, just … we’ve got to do the best that we can with those last two races,” Todd told Fox Sports following the Texas win. 

Todd drives the DHL Funny Car for Kalitta Motorsports.  Here is his winning race in Texas:

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