Nostalgia Pro Street racer Kevin Parent showed up to Super Bowl IV with a 528 BBC engine, which is a new combination for the class veteran. He qualified with an incredible 7.361 and managed to win his way to the finals.

Parent took out Kenny Lafferty in the first round, despite Lafferty’s .009 reaction. Next, he outran Jim Jarrett, 7.43 to 7.52. Parent then advanced over a broken Dave Beeson to meet class newcomer Danny Shemwell in the final.

Once both Chevys lined up, Shemwell, knowing that he needed to cut a good light to outrun the number one qualifier, pushed the tree too hard and went way red, giving the event win to Parent.      

           
In Xtreme Street, famed Mustang racer Bob Kurgan was on a tear all weekend, grabbing three total victories with his supercharged fox body. He first won over Tim Hendricks in the postponed final from Bradenton, then won the event in X/S, and finally topped it off with a Super Bowl Shootout win against the NMRA’s Enzo Pecchini. A redlight from Hendricks in the first round allowed Kurgan to advance, then he got past Tony Orts after an intense staging duel that ended with Orts going red.

In the Semis, Kurgan got a bye straight into the final where he was set to take on Oldsmobile racer Bill Trovato. In one of the most exciting and closest races possibly in the history of the NMCA, Trovato and Kurgan left with nearly identical reactions, .043 and .042, and were literally door-to-door as if the whole way their chassis were physically connected, eventually posting nearly identical ET’s, two 8.163. The margin of victory was a mere .0018 or 5.2 inches at the stripe!                
             
In the entry-level power adder heads-up class, Street Radial, Brad Schehr ended up taking his ProCharger-equipped fox body to the winner’s circle after taking out the LS-powered Mustang of Scott Carter. He dispatched Hendricks (who was also running in Xtreme Street) in the first round, and then advanced over a redlighting Jay Canella. When the finals rolled around, Schehr cut a killer .019 as Carter slept with a .352. It would’ve been a close race, but Schehr’s quick reaction compared to Carter’s sealed the deal, and despite a quicker run from Carter, 8.85 to 8.86, Schehr won and picked up his second NMCA victory for this 2009 season.