NHRA Funny Car: Todd battling Hight for his first title

Only once since 2006 has the winning margin in the NHRA Funny Car championship ended in three figures, an indicator of how this year’s competition between JR Todd and Robert Hight may finish.
Heading into this weekend’s Auto Club Finals, the Mello Yello Drag Racing Series finale at Pomona, Todd has a 74-point advantage.
Hight is accustomed to such tight title scrambles. The defending class titlist beat Ron Capps by just 98 points in 2017 and was a 61-point winner over John Force Raci