After winning the 2007 Nitro Funny Car Championship Tony Pedregon received a special gift from his friends and sponsor the Maloof Brothers, owners of the Las Vegas Palms Hotel. A four-passenger Escalade golf cart and a fine bottle of wine were delivered to the surprised two-time funny car Champion in the off-season. (Darr Hawthorne photo)
I’m on cloud nine,” Antron Brown said. “I’m here at my first Winternationals as a competitor and it felt great to make a clean opening run and get this Matco dragster in the field. It was good to finally line up against a car in the other lane. I also got rid of those jitters about the short shut down here at Pomona. Now we can get down to business and focus on racing and cutting good lights.” (Ron Lewis photo)
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Jim Yates (Ron Lewis photo)