In Prostalgia Nitro Funny Car Gallen got his revenge over Saturday night opponent Richard Hartman with a career best speed and a blistering E.T. to claim his sixth win of the season. Gallen ran a 5.915, 249.12 in the final, besting Hartman’s 6.201 in the final round.

“We have been struggling. We have had no computer on the car the last two events and it is very hard to tune without that crutch,” Gallen said. “It is all seat of the pants and feeling things out. I used to do it with the alcohol car, but now that I am getting older it is getting harder to do that.

“The car came around for the last two runs and we were fortunate to get things just right to make a strong pass when we needed it most.”

Gallen and Hartman also met up in the final on Saturday night with Hartman coming out on top in a very emotional victory for the “Bullet Bob” team. But on Sunday it was all Gallen and the “Poverty Stricken” team as Gallen lead the entire way and helped close the gap on point leader Steve Nichols in the race for the Prostalgia NFC championship.

Gallen also battled back from a few issues on Saturday, making Sunday’s win even sweeter for the “Poverty Stricken” crew.

“We broke a valve yesterday after the first run which caused some carnage, but thankfully it didn’t turn out as bad as it could have,” Gallen said. “We were fortunate enough to have the crew that we have to put it back together and it worked out perfect tonight. I simply couldn’t afford to hurt it last night so we backed it down and today we cranked it back up.”
  
With only two races to go Gallen (Broomall, Pa.) has closed the gap to just a few rounds entering the North American Nitro Jam in two weeks in New Hampshire.

In the consolation rounds Nichols picked up a win over Mike McIntire and Aaron “Army” Armstrong continued to improve on his career best numbers in a victory over Greg Jacobsmeyer.

Sunday’s Prostalgia Nitro Funny Car rematch was set up in the first round when Gallen broke through with his best pass of the weekend at 5.968, 244.34 in a first round bye, meeting up with Hartman who was just behind with a 5.921 pass to defeat Jacobsmeyer.

Other winners from Sunday’s professional rounds included Harland Sharp Elite 8 winners Glen Teets (Top Sportsman) and Jody Stroud (Top Dragster), while sportsman winners included Ronnie Dodson (Browntown, Va.) in Top Sportsman, Mike Gardner (Haymarket, Va.) in Top Dragster, Anthony Bertozzi (Ashland, Va.) in Super Stock, Myron Piatek (Holly Hill, Fla.) in Stock, John Dustin (Rockville, Md.) in Quick Rod, Calvin Butler (Marlington, W. Va.) in Super Rod and Jeff Martin (Hollywood, Md.) in Hot Rod.

In addition to taking the win on Sunday, all seven winners also qualified for the Tournament of Champions sportsman runoff at the Nitro Jam World Finals at Virginia Motorsports Park in October.

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