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Dixon powered his Al-Anabi Racing dragster to his fourth win of the season and increased his series lead by outrunning Brandon Bernstein in the final round. Dixon covered the race distance in 3.913 seconds at 311.49 mph, but ultimately didn’t need the performance as Bernstein suffered a rare red-light start in his Copart/Lucas Oil dragster.

"[Brandon] took a shot at the Tree and went .003 red, but if he goes .003 green he has a chance to win the race," Dixon said. "He has a good car and if you get eight-hundredths on a guy, there's not eight-hundredths between our cars. We went up there with what we thought the track could take, and you have to hope it's enough, and today it was. The car was flawless; we had a really tight package. To have seven runs between an .86 and a .91 that's pretty stout, and then to have an .82 for the pole just adds to it.”

Dixon beat Steve Torrence, T.J. Zizzo and arch-rival Tony Schumacher in earlier rounds for his fourth Atlanta Dragway win.

Dixon is humble about tying five-time world champ Amato, a legendary figure in the sport. "I feel the same way [about tying Amato] as I do against the other people I grew up looking up to: Unworthy,” said Dixon, who now leads second place Cory McClenathan by 112 points as he works on earning his third world championship title.  

“To be able to reach a number that [Amato] got...well, I'm a few championships behind him still. The guys I looked up to didn’t get 23 chances a year to win."