LAS VEGAS, NV – Oct0ber 26, 2022 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – A dominant, magical season has the chance to become a championship year for Erica Enders at this weekend’s 22nd NHRA Nevada Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, which also shows just how incredible the Pro Stock star has been during the 2022 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series season.
With another strong showing – which has become the norm for her over the years in Las Vegas – Enders would clinch her fifth world title a race before the finale, a clear indicator she has been nearly unstoppable in her Melling Performance/Elite Motorsports Chevrolet Camaro.
Enders has picked up nine wins this year, tying her career-best for a single season, with two races remaining and she currently holds a 165-point lead over teammate Aaron Stanfield. She also won the spring race in Las Vegas and has a chance to pick up her 10th career victory at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, which would extend her mark as the winningest professional driver in track history.
It all adds up to a remarkable weekend of opportunity for Enders, and she’s eager to try to take advantage and close the deal in impressive fashion.
“I’ve definitely always been big on the positive mental attitude part of it, speaking things that you want into existence and visualizing the positive things you want,” said Enders, who now has 42 career wins. “The guys at Elite Motorsports have my back and it’s a pretty awesome environment to work in. It’s a whole lot of fun and I want to go to Vegas and capitalize there. It would be awesome to lock it up. I don’t want to let up and I just want to keep going to battle.”
Steve Torrence (Top Fuel), Cruz Pedregon (Funny Car), Dallas Glenn (Pro Stock) and Steve Johnson (Pro Stock Motorcycle) won last year’s playoff race, which was also NHRA’s 1,000th overall event. This season’s event will be broadcast on Fox Sports 1 (FS1), including eliminations at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 30 and is the 21st race of the 2022 season and the fifth of sixth events in the Countdown to the Championship.
Enders has been a step ahead of a loaded Pro Stock class all year, both in the regular season and especially during the Countdown to the Championship. She’s already won three of the four playoff races and was nearly perfect at the most recent race in Dallas, recording the quickest run of every qualifying session and every round of eliminations.
She’s continued to…
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