Sovereign-Star Racing’s Scotty Pollacheck locked into the NHRA Full Throttle Countdown to the Championship after winning in round one against his teammate John Hall at the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indianapolis.

Even though the Sovereign-Star Racing team was looking to get Hall into the Countdown from his No. 11 spot in the points standings, there were no hard feelings between the teammates after Pollacheck’s round-one win against Hall.

“That’s never a good thing when you have to race your teammate,” Pollacheck said. “Everything is still the same, though. I think everybody realizes that sort of thing happens and there’s nothing you can do about it. I tried to not think about any of that. I just wanted to cut a good light, shift when I was supposed to, and make a good lap. And whatever happened, happened.”

Even though Indy didn’t give the results they were looking for with both racers in the Countdown, the team was thrilled to get one of their rookie drivers in at the competitive No. 6 position.

“I’m so happy that we got Scotty into the Countdown, but on the other hand I also wanted to get John in and I wanted a blue, yellow and red bike to win the U.S. Nationals,” Bryce said. “As far as the strategy is concerned going into North Carolina, we’re 10 points behind Karen Stoffer and 20 points behind Hector Arana. Anything can happen at this point.”

“The first thing I want to do when we get to Charlotte is to get in a good qualifying run like we did in Indy to get us solidly in the field where we’re not scrambling later to make up for lost ground. Making that first run count like we did at Indy makes everything so much easier the rest of the weekend,” Pollacheck said.

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