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Rick Peterson: Despite drought, Schumacher still Army strong ...

by Rick Peterson

Don't feel sorry for seven-time Top Fuel champion Tony Schumacher. He's doesn't.

Yes, Schumacher, a 67-time national event winner, is winless in 30 races, a drought he'll try to end in Sunday's NHRA Dollar General Summernationals eliminations.

But Schumacher also entered the weekend as the Top Fuel points leader, holding a 25-point lead over Spencer Massey.

And while Schumacher and the U.S. Army team fully expects to win soon, perhaps as soon as Sunday, the “Sarge” also knows that giving his team the best chance to win the championship is job one.

“Here's a great scenario,” Schumacher said. “When I started in ’99, my first championship, I don't know how many races (Gary) Scelzi won — I think seven — but I was the champ at the end of the year, winning one race. And I didn't even have to win it, I would have been the champ anyway.

“I get it. Like I've said for so many years, I have read the rulebook. It doesn't say I have to win the most races; it says I have to have the most points at the end.”

Consistency has put Schumacher at the top of the Top Fuel standings.

True, he hasn't won in a year and a third, but Schumacher also has made it to 11 final rounds during that time.

“You can't go out in the first round,” he said. “You've got to be a machine and I think our record of first rounds and dominance early in the race is much more important than the amount of races we've won.”

Having said that, there's no question Schumacher is getting tired of merely coming close.

“We're not trying to get beat,” he said. “Eleven final rounds, it's ridiculous that we haven't won one. (It's) terrible luck because we've run fantastic every final round, with the exception of last (race) when we smoked the tires.

“But we were tired of getting out-run. We shouldn't be soft and conservative, we should go out and go fast and I was more proud of smoking the tires than I was of the last 10 ways of getting beat. So what? We're going after it.”

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Oct 23, 2006 by Orchid | Posted in Other - Sports

For the first time in my life I was for Schumi during the yeaterday's race, Even I've not always been fond for him . He was driving amazing, right ?

he sure was i live in the UK but have always followed him in his career i have been to 4 grand prixs and he drives better every time he is the only driver i think that drives to win in one of his interviews recently he said he is in it to win it and