Aeromotive Xtreme Street racer John Warren has slowly been creeping up on the competition in his “Nuclear Banana” Nova this season, and finally the efforts of Warren and his brother (three time NMC champ, Andy Warren, and father John Sr.) paid off with a top qualifier honors (7.82) and huge final round win for the Kentucky racer. Warren’s car, running with the consistency of a bracket car, cranked out elapsed times of 7.86, 7.86 in the first two rounds before slowing to a 7.90 in the final round, which actually was slower than Phil Smith’s 7.87, but a .038 reaction time advantage, was all Warren needed to earn his first Wally. (Donna Bistran photo)

In Stainless Works 275 Drag Radial Jason Lee and his Mustang qualified on top of the heap for the sixth time this year and advanced to his sixth final round of the season to face Kurt Borton and his ’82 Fairmont – a race easily won by Lee in a 7.55 to 8.45 race.

In Comp Cams Pro Stock action, Don Baskin and his ’67 Nova led all qualifiers with an impressive 8.37/159 -mph shot and then ran the table early Sunday morning with a final round win over Andy Schmidt to claim his fourth win of the year.

B&B Race Cars Mean Street featured one of it’s most impressive and competitive fields of the season with Brandon Alsept leading the charge in both qualifying and eliminations as well as lowering the ET standard for the class to a 9.87. In eliminations, Alsept defeated Shawn Johnson, received a second round bye and then beat Dennis Merrow in the semis before meeting and beating Brian Campbell in an all-Mustang final, 9.88 to 9.89. (Donna Bistran photo)

Randy Seward topped a very fast field of TREME True Street cars, as he pushed his Mustang to an 8.54 average, beating Bowling Green runner-up Jason Meador, who averaged 8.69.