Craig Paisley, not qualified, replaced Rau due to parts breakage in the first round of eliminations.

Paisley's '03 Toyota Tacoma got past Carlos Montano, who had problems with his rotary Mazda MX6 in the second round, and then got the win over Scranton to head to the final. Ioannou went 7.130/205.10mph, backing up his 207-mph for the record, to beat Personett in the semi.

So it was George Ioannou and Craig Paisley in an all-Toyota final. Paisley did a crowd-igniting burnout and then stamped a big holeshot on Ioannou, but the Solara of Ioannou (pictured) went around Paisley's Tacoma for a 7.275/191.77, defeating Paisley's 7.784/146.67. Ioannou is nine for nine in his final round appearances.

In the Turbo Magazine Hot Rod class, the '04 Pontiac Sunfire driven by Marty Ladwig was number 1 after Saturday. After some problems on the line and a 21-second reaction time, Ladwig went 8.181/175.74, obliterating the national record of 8.45 set last year by Gary Gardella.

Ladwig (pictured) had a bye run first round and met Gary Gardella's '93 Civic in the semi's. Ladwig's Sunfire went 8.163/173.54 to take out Gardella and break his previous e.t. record run. Ladwig met Chris Gore's '97 Civic in the final and did it again. Ladwig went 8.082/177.09 to Gore's slowing 11.860/81.44, once again pushing the e.t. bar to almost four-tenths quicker than the previous national record to take home the champion's trophy.

No turbo, no blower, no nitrous -- the Honda Tuning All Motor class saw Jesus Padilla's rotary dominate. Padilla qualified in the first position with a 9.968-second pass at 130.89 mph with his '85 Mazda. In the semi-final Padilla ran 9.951/131.63mph to beat Scott Mohler's Neon pass of 10.125/133.29.

Jeremy Lookofsky's '02 DVS Civic took out Otis Evans in round 1, went around Ken Scheepers in round 2, and had a bye run in the semi's. In the final, Lookofsky left first, but Padilla's 9.998/131.75 defeated Lookofsky's 10.288/129.87.