Words compiled by Kay Burk
Photos by Tim Marshall, James Drew, Ron Lewis and Donna Bistran

The 2012 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series championships came down to the final race and in one cases the final lap of the season with a couple of racers claiming theirs during Saturday qualifying and the other two in class eliminations on Sunday.

Saturday afternoon, Nov. 10, Allen Johnson talked about “a dream come true” after he secured the first NHRA world championship title of his 17-year drag racing career.

The NHRA Pro Stock team Allen and his father Roy had started and nurtured through some discouraging years had clinched the title by qualifying its Team Mopar Dodge Avenger for Sunday’s elimination rounds of the Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals.

Harley Davidson rider Eddie Krawiec also clinched a Full Throttle Series World Championship on Saturday, his second straight and third in six years in the Pro Stock Motorcycle class.

It was the sixth time in as many seasons that Johnson had qualified for the Full Throttle Countdown to the Championship in Pro Stock and his best finish in the standings had been fourth, in 2007 and last year.