Zellonis' supercharged car qualified with an 8.70, just ahead of Larry Prykucki's nitrous car (8.836) and Bob Cook's supercharged car (8.838). The top five qualifiers were all in the eights, but Zellonis had them all covered on Sunday, and took out Bob Cook in the final round with an 8.78 at 153 to Cook's 9.009 at 155.

BFGoodrich Drag Radial saw the Maple Grove finalists once again make it to the final round. Rob Corujo (Maple Grove runner-up) and Phil Clemmons (winner) sat one and two on the ladder, but the entire field was in the 8's and unbelievably tight. The 7-car ET spread was between Corujo's 8.428 and John Gotera's 8.788! As at the last event, Clemmons cut a killer light (.008) and ran an 8.592 at 167 mph to take the win. Corujo got loose at about 300 feet and nearly hit both retaining walls, but did a masterful job of driving to keep the car from getting damaged.

5.0 Mustang Real Street saw a first-time winner when Craig Baldwin (above) put his Vortech-supercharged '88 Mustang on top of the qualifying order and all the way into the finals. There, he met Jay Meagher's '93 Mustang. Baldwin got away first with a .099-second reaction time and ran the quickest pass of the weekend, a 9.682 at 139 mph. It

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was an especially sweet victory for Baldwin, since this was the first race that his wife and kids had been to!

Tremec Pure Street only had five cars entered, but there were the top racers in the class and the finals were deja vu all over again. Rich Groh and Gene Hindman lined up in the money round, as they have done several times this year. Hindman drilled the tree with a .005-second reaction time, but Groh passed him on the top end and won with a 10.522 at 128 mph to Hindman's 10.607 at 127.