Doug Horne won in the Top Fuel class.

Results courtesy Rockingham Dragway
Photos by Mike Davis

Douglas Horne applied an exclamation point to an already spectacular season Sunday, Oct. 9, with a pair of national records and a double-up victory in the Jim McClure Nitro Nationals presented by the Carolina Harley-Davidson Dealers Association at Rockingham Dragway.

Horne swept the Top Fuel and Pro Fuel titles for the third time this season, set the All-Harley Drag Racing Association speed record at a thundering 233.68 miles per hour and the Pro Fuel record for quarter mile time at 6.502, eclipsing the 6.514 standard he himself set en route to victory at Rockingham in last May’s Spring Nitro Nationals.

A total of 12 AHDRA performance records were established in the event which commemorates the career of the late Jim McClure, a former AHDRA winner at Rockingham and a member of the Harley-Davidson Hall of Fame.

Horne, the 23-year-old phenom from Aberdeen, Md., won his 13th and 14th races in a season in which he almost doubled the points totals of his primary rivals in both the Top Fuel and Pro Fuel categories.  Although he never before had won Top Fuel at The Rock, his Pro Fuel win was his fourth straight.

Horne, who also has been successful in the NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle Series where he was runner-up three times on the way to a fifth place finish in 2009, beat Tommy Grimes of Pfafftown in the Top Fuel final and Randal Andras of Amelia, La. for the Pro Fuel purse.