Teammates Del Cox Jr. and Spencer Massey go head to head in Saturday’s Top Fuel final.

After besting Bobby Lagana Jr. in the opening round Cox (Downey, Calif.) met up with teammate Spencer Massey in the final and ran to a sloppy 5.386, 204.77 to take home his first win of the year. Massey ran into trouble much earlier in his run.

“It was a heck of a deal for our team and our sponsors. And getting to race Spencer was a pretty awesome deal,” Cox said. “I feel like I need to cut the Ironman in half and share it with him so we both get a piece. Hopefully we can get another one tomorrow and just share.”

In the consolation round Lagana put up the best numbers of the night with a 4.817, 304.98 to defeat Bruce Litton.

Cox reached the final with a first round win over Lagana while Massey took down Litton in a tricky opening round. All four cars ran into some sort of trouble in their first hits at the track, leaving the victory to the best man at pedaling the track.

Cox eliminated Lagana with a 6.161-second pass, good enough for low E.T. of the round. Massey was just behind with the next best pass.

Cox’s victory set up a battle of teammates in the final as Lagana, who won both finals at the season opener at Palm Beach, failed to reach a final for the first time this year.

In the Prostalgia Nitro Funny Car final Mike McIntire (Chesterland, Ohio) made up for a disappointing opening weekend with a victory over Steve Nichols.

McIntire made a final round earlier this year at the season opener Palm Beach Nitro Jam, but a broken part kept him from making the call. It was a completely different story on Saturday as McIntire bested one of the best in the business in Nichols to claim his first career Ironman.

“At the last race it was a whole new combination and we just missed it. We spent a lot of time and money figuring this new combination out and it worked tonight,” McIntire said. “We were disappointed down in Florida, but this sure did make up for it.”

McIntire, behind the wheel of the McAttack ’69 Camaro, was glued to Nichols and his “Mill Road Boys” entry from start to finish and crossed the line with a career best 5.926, 240.77 pass. Nichols ran a 6.515.

“I never saw him. I was geared up to leave because he is such a good racer and we did that. I left on him hard and the car just ran straight as an arrow,” McIntire said. “I pushed it into second gear and just kept going. We really hit on it tonight.”

In the consolation rounds Greg Jacobsmeyer defeated Rick Krafft, John Dunn won on a bye and Peter Gallen defeated John Lawson.

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