5.30 INDEX: ORSCA's wildly diverse new 5.30 division had no shortage of unusual vehicles, but it was a pair of '63 Stingrays meeting in the final. Mississippi's "G-Man" Smith grabbed a twelve hundredths holeshot over Charles Richard's magnificent "Mistress", but Smith ran fourteen thousandths too quick to toss the victory to the Mauney-built, Fulton-powered Georgia ride.

6.00 INDEX: Scott Flowers and Michael Strickland qualified five positions and five hundredths away from each other, (Strickland was one of five qualifiers at 6.00 seconds), but during eliminations they mirrored each other all the way to the final round. Both had among the best RTs in eliminations, often in subsequent pairs. In round three, for example, Strickland hit a 0.004 RT while Flowers, in the same lane on the next pass, nailed a 0.005. In the semis, Strickland had an 0.021 RT, Flowers had an 0.022. It all made for great story until the fifth and last round, when something went horribly wrong for Strickland's '92 Camaro and a 0.276 RT wasted a 6.007/115, especially since Flowers' colorful '69 Nova had an 0.024 RT and a 6.04/107.

7.00 INDEX: The closest race in any category came in the final round of the 7.0 division. Chad Smart's red '68 Camaro and Kentuckian Kevin Thompson (the most recent winner on the ORSCA tour) waded through the field to meet for the title. Thompson had a series of fouling or broken opponents, while Smart had brilliant RTs and solid 7.0 runs all the way to the semis, where he was forced to defeat his own brother, Chris, for a final-round berth. In the last round, Thompson's wheelstanding Olds took a nine-thousandths of a second deficit off the line, but powered from behind to get the finish line first by ten thousandths. The one thousandth true win-margin is deceiving, however, as Thompson had to run 6.996/96 to get around Smart's tremendous 7.006/99.