We’re not sure, but there might have been a few dollars changing hands as each pair went down the track.

Bob Maclosky from Jackson, NJ, had gotten down to seven cars the night before. This time at four cars he faced Three Rivers, Texas, racer Peeps Pennington. Pennington got the dial-in advantage and turned on the red bulb only three-thousandths of a second too early. Maclosky dodged a bullet as he was a little late with a .050 reaction time, but often it’s better to be lucky than good.

The final was set and it lived up to a great driver’s race with both drivers leaving the starting line with double-zero reaction times. At the finish line, Jones ran under his dial to hand the win to Maclosky, who posed the question during winner’s circle celebrations, “Who wants to drive my car tomorrow? Because with all the celebrating, I don’t think I’m going to make it.”