Troy Coughlin

Rowe defeated Mike Knowles, Troy Coughlin and Danny Walsh in earlier rounds en route to his first final round appearance of the season. Lang beat Jay Payne, Brad Brand (driving Roger Burgess’s ‘Vette) and Matusek to get to the final.

There were several instances of the NHRA auto-shutoff devices accidently being activated and racers having their parachutes deploy in the staging lanes prior to racing. As a result there was a lot of thrashing in the staging lanes getting parachutes repacked so that racers could make passes.