"It was brutal," Capps said of the long rain delay. "After they called it on Monday, the NAPA guys and I went go-karting and I took all the crew guys out to dinner.  In the final, it actually dropped a magneto about a second and a half into the run and then it picked back up later in the run," said Capps. "I told Ace it was pretty impressive to still run what it ran in the final, looking at the computer and what it did.

"It's cool to be the first Full Throttle winner," Capps said. “And it's great for NAPA.”

In Pro Stock, great air conditions helped Jason Line earn his 16th victory and his first ever at Pomona Raceway by outrunning Mike Edwards in the final round. Line drove his Summit Racing-backed Pontiac GXP to a 6.567 at a track record speed of 211.63 to hold off Edwards’ Pontiac trailing at 6.575 at 210.01. 

"I drove pretty good out there which feels pretty good because I've been criticized for that in the past," said Line, who had a reaction time advantage on all four of his opponents. "I drove decent and had a pretty good hot rod.”

In Sportsman action, Top Alcohol Dragster driver Chris Demke set low ET of eliminations at 5.270 seconds and was defeated by Colorado’s Jim Whiteley’s 5.435/268.49 in a come from behind victory over Demke’s 5.511 ET at 251.86 mph.

In Alcohol Funny Car Tony Bartone in his Mustang-bodied racecar, who recently left the seat of Jim Dunn’s nitro Funny Car, ran a 5.530 elapsed time at 259.81 mph to defeat Doug Gordon’s Monte Carlo at 5.618 ET at 261.83 mph.

Winternats Photo Extra

Multi-time Sportsman World Champion Dan Fletcher debuted his new sponsor, K&N Filters, on the side of his SS/AS Camaro. Fletcher went out in round one. The finals matched Jimmy DeFrank’s SS/AM against number one qualifier Shane Studley. Studley cut an .005 light to DeFrank’s .032 . DeFrank ripped off a 8.569 on a 8.56 dial while Studley ran a 9.916 on a 9.88 dial and got to the stripe first by .0003 seconds or about one inch!