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Jason Line

Starting from the No. 1 position after resetting the track elapsed time and speed records in qualifying, Jason Line eliminated six-time champion Warren Johnson, Countdown contender Greg Stanfield and Steve Kent in the early rounds before squaring off against rival Kurt Johnson in the final in a rematch of last week’s championship round in Charlotte won by Johnson.

Kurt Johnson couldn’t quite make it to the finish line again.

This time, however, Line was not to be denied using a .027 reaction time to gain the advantage and never looked back, powering through the quarter-mile in 6.633-seconds, with a top speed of 208.46 mph pass to gain the decisive victory over Johnson, who carded a 6.663-second, 207.85 mph run in the losing effort. It was Line’s fifth win of the 2011 season (tying his single-season best), first at the Texas Motorplex, and allowed him to increase his lead in the Full Throttle Championship standings to 112 points over teammate Greg Anderson.