Brandon Bernstein driving the MAVTV/Lucas Oil Top Fuel dragster are so close to wining a race in the NHRA Full Throttle Series, they can taste it. Bernstein finished runner-up at Sunday's Mopar Mile-High NHRA Nationals for the second time this season. Sunday's race was especially excruciating when Antron Brown got the to the stripe ahead of him by by approximately 3 feet.

In that Top Fuelfinal, Brown got off the line a mere.008 seconds quicker than Bernstein. The race was side-by-side all the way down the 1,000 foot track. Brown recorded a 3.957/308.21mph pass to Bernstein oh so close 3.959/307.58 mph effort

"It was a good drag race," Bernstein said. "It's what we do - we drag race. We would have loved to have won. On the bright side, we've got three in a row coming up here and if we keep knocking on the door like this we're bound to break through."

Against No. 1 qualifier Massey, Bernstein got off the line second but was able to use horsepower to cross the stripe first. Bernstein's winning lap into the finals was a 4.015 at 300.00 mph, while Massey finished with a 4.059 at 296.11 mph.

For its efforts on Sunday, the MATV crew was award the Full Throttle Hard-Working Crew Award.  

Caption Don Schumacher Racing swept the nitro categories for the second time in 13 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing events this season when Antron Brown won in Top Fuel to join Beckman in the winner's circle, a repeat of Atlanta last season.