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his way into the beams . Staged and ready , Singleton took the green and wowed the crowd as he thundered to his quickest run of the weekend , a 3.737 at 206 , thus scoring a bye-run victory and hefty payday .
And for the equally entertaining Alkydigger “ B ” field , Nancy Matter scored an impressive victory , beginning with her No . 9 qualifying spot overall , which is viewed as the quickest among the “ B ” field contingent for cars qualified 9-16 . Matter , who became the first and only female racer to win a Funny Car Chaos event thus far ( Mo-Kan Dragway “ A ” field 2019 ), qualified in San Antonio with a 4.108 at 189 blast .
In the opening round of eliminations , Matter bettered her E . T . performance with a 4.076 at 159 to get past Damon Kuhn , who stopped the clocks
with an off-the-pace 6.465 at 120 . Matter continued going rounds after getting past Danny Smith in the semifinals . Smith was first out of the gate , but Matter drove around him before the 660 stripe , clocking a 3.938 at 183 to Smith ’ s 4.347 at 163 .
In the final round , Tod Barker knew he needed a huge holeshot to take down Matter and he indeed left on her by a sizable margin , but he didn ’ t have the performance to hold off the hardcharging Matter , who streaked to victory with a 3.921 at 192 to Barker ’ s slowing 4.445 at 138 .
Along with the pair of season finale event winners , Singleton also clinched the 2020 Red Line Shirt Club points championship , driving his Oklahoma-based “ High Risk ” Alcohol Funny Car to his second consecutive world championship .
Alamo City Motorplex stepped up in a big way for the series in 2020 and was named “ Track of the Year ” by Funny Car Chaos . Early in the
year after COVID-19 disruptions and scheduling changes forced the series to explore other options , Alamo City Motorplex not only hosted the first Funny Car Chaos event this year in which fans were allowed to attend , they later invited the series back to hold the World Finals at the south-central Texas facility .
“ After hosting two Funny Car Chaos events this year after not even being on the initial schedule , I wanted to say ‘ thank you ’ to Alamo City Motorplex for stepping up the way they did ,” says series founder Chris Graves .
As the details of the 2021 schedule were recently announced , Alamo City Motorplex will again host the World Finals next year . “ We will kick off the 2021 season at the Texas Motorplex in Ennis and visit Kansas International Dragway near Wichita ,” Graves says . “ Both tracks will be new venues for our series .” DI
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