In the final round, younger brother Mitch needed a better reaction time and got one as his 6.218/230.76 beat brother Quain's 6.205/231.68 for the win and the points lead going into the next race on the mountain at Bristol, TN.

Pro Mod Pit Notes

Rickie Smith was not a happy camper after the race at Houston. He ran a career best 6.228/224.79 and didn't qualify. He ran the identical elapsed time that Shannon Jenkins ran but needed an additional .31 of a mile an hour to get past Shannon and make the show.

Ed Hoover says that after eight years and more than 700 laps he is finally going to retire his Tommy Mauney-built '63 nitrous 'Vette and replace it with a new Mauney car for nitrous racing. "That old car is heavy and it won't take the 36-inch tall tires we need to run. The new car will take the big tire and we'll be able to move the weight where we need to. We're going to build an engine to take advantage of the cubic inches that Mike Baker gave us and see how that does. I'm not through nitrous racing, I'm just not racing the old car anymore."

Scott and Stan Ray's CARQUEST-backed '63 'Vette is going to get a little fuel system help from engine builder Jim Oddy. Oddy took the team's fuel system back with him to his Elma, NY shop and will give it some attention before the next race.

Although Fred Hahn's 6.072 Hemi-powered lap was very impressive, it is only four-thousandths quicker than Mike Janis' supercharged, Alan Johnson-wedge powered 'Vette that has run a number of 6.11 laps including a best of 6.112.

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