Kile actually lit the win light in round one with a 6.506, 211.21 pass to Turner’s 6.546, 211.46, but Turner got him in the round that mattered as Turner blasted to a 6.495, 211.41 lap to Kile’s very fast 6.567, 219.78.

“Both of the bikes went down the track really well tonight. We were really pleased with the performance and of course we really wanted to do well for the crowd,” Turner said. “When we started this season we started with a clean sheet of paper. We set these two bikes up similar to each other to help gather more data to help us out and it seems to be paying big dividends right now. It is always nice to go down the track twice and come back both times with a good lap behind you.”

Peter Gallen added to his Ironman collection in AMSOIL Prostalgia Nitro Funny Car as the Pennsylvania native produced two blistering laps to easily drive around the competition. Gallen set the benchmark for the weekend in the nostalgia Funny Car class in round one with a 5.811, 237.71 shot that sent him to the top of the charts with Mike Minick in the “Chi-Town Hustler” not far behind.

In the final Gallen put the “Poverty Stricken” Monza in victory lane with another five-second lap, this time a 5.982, 243.70 to defeat Minick who blossomed the parachutes moments after hitting the throttle.

Finally in Fuel Altered Ron Hope (shown) won the battle of the nostalgia nitro machines as he defeated Kyle Hough in the final. Hough won round one with the best pass of the night for the class – a quick 6.620, 218.20 – but in the final Hope drove around the young driver with a 7.260 to a 7.588.