Super Street Outlaw filled the lanes with the baddest men on true 10.5-inch tires. After off-season rules changes that took away a considerable amount of blower, defending champion John Urist still came out and laid down a 7.42 pass to take the pole on Saturday.

On Sunday, Urist was the man wearing the target, and working through the field with his sights set on that target was “Burndown” Don Burton. Burton lived up to his nickname in the finals when he and Urist sat in the pre-stage beams for over two minutes in an exciting staging duel. Burton broke ranks first and bumped in, and as the lights dropped, Burton shot off like a scalded dog while Urist just lurched, allowing Burton to be uncontested at the other stripe.

The quickest and fastest class in the NMRA is Pro Outlaw 10.5. This weekend, it also proved to be the most dangerous as there were a total of four incidents. In test and tune Jerry Morgano encountered the wall just pass the 60-foot beams, and Dwayne James had a tranny fire on the top end. Once in eliminations, defending champion Conrad Scarry rolled his car on the top end and James suffered another tranny fire crossing the stripe. Thankfully the only injuries suffered in all the accidents were second-degree burns on James’ face.

In racing action, multiple-time outlaw champion Mike Murillo took the top spot on Sunday with a 9.85 pass at a whopping 224 mph. In eliminations, Keith Neal made it to the finals where he faced Ruben Tetsoshvili. Neal ran a solid 7.28 to defeat Testoshvili’s ailing 9.20 run.