Dallas Glenn competes for his first NHRA Professional Inventory championship Sunday in Pomona, however he hasn’t hung out interested by it.
Glenn, the truth is, has tried to do something however take into consideration racing.
“I’ve been extra on [the] not making an attempt to overthink something [agenda],” Glenn stated this week. “I do know what I must do once we get there, and all I can hope for is the automobile makes eight stable good runs or at the least as many as we are able to. I feel I’ve gone {golfing} thrice this week and tried to chill out and hand around in Las Vegas with my dad and mom. I’m simply making an attempt to not overthink something.”
The earlier NHRA occasion befell in Las Vegas two weeks in the past. Glenn and his KB Titan Racing group skilled a first-round loss that allowed Aaron Stanfield to take the factors lead, as he gained the occasion for Elite Motorsports. Stanfield leads Glenn by 32 factors getting into the finale at In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip.
Pomona is a points-and-a-half race. There shall be 30 factors awarded for every spherical as a substitute of the normal 20.
“I feel in my thoughts it’s fairly easy: if I simply go on the market and attempt to make eight good high quality runs and attempt to win the race, wherever it falls, it’ll fall, and I can’t be mad at what sort of season I’ve had,” Glenn stated. “It doesn’t matter what occurs in Pomona, I’ve obtained to depart there with my head excessive, and I really feel like I’ve carried out a reasonably good job all season lengthy. If it involves Aaron or Greg [Anderson] simply did just a little higher job than me within the final six races, then so be it.
“But when I’m going there and provides it all the things I obtained, then I can’t complain about something.”
Anderson is third within the championship hunt, sitting 56 factors behind. Glenn and Anderson, the latter of whom goes for his sixth championship, are teammates at KB Titan.
Glenn has already put collectively a profession 12 months. He has 5 victories by means of 19 races with a win/loss report of 46-14 and twice was the No. 1 qualifier.
A four-win season in 2023 had been his earlier single-season excessive. Glenn went from long-time crew member to driver in 2021, rapidly successful three races and ending third in factors. He’s gained 13 races since his debut.
It’d must be extra of the identical Sunday for the championship.
“In all honesty, I’m simply going to roll in there and simply attempt to be as aggressive as I can,” Glenn stated. “I really feel like I’m in a great place within the race automobile; I can hit the tree decently and hit shift factors. So long as I do my job, hopefully, all of the dominoes fall, and the planets are aligned appropriately. Anybody who says they’ll win one in every of these with out luck, I feel, is mendacity to themselves. Hopefully the luck is on our aspect.
“I do know Aaron goes to be very powerful. This positively might come right down to the final spherical, so I’m simply going to go up there and attempt to do what I’ve carried out all season and simply be aggressive.”
