“We were scrambling a bit at the end to get it all back together after the first run, but it worked out for us,” Wurtzel said. “We brought in a new crew chief to help Mike Wolfarth in Jimmy Walsh and that helped a lot. In the final I jammed that pedal and it drove good so I kept in it and I never saw Bruce so I just hoped for the best. We have been fighting some issues with clutch wear, but we are starting to turn it around and tonight was a good start.”

Nitro Harley saw another incredible pair of passes as Jay Turner and Tracy Kile split the weekend runs, with Turner taking both rounds that mattered. On Saturday Kile once again the winner in round one, but Turner got around his rival in the money round with a 6.385, 228.31 pass to Kile’s 6.510, 213.77.

Turner’s lap of 228.31 mph was seven miles per hour faster than the current IHRA Nitro Harley record.

Finally in Fuel Altered Kyle Hough went two-for-two in the “Super Nanook”, just inching by in round one and then overpowering Ron Hope in “Rat Trap” in the finale with a 6.975, 197.49 to Hope’s 7.481, 217.65.

In sportsman action defending IHRA Top Sportsman World Champion Mike Thompson continued his incredible 2013 season with his third consecutive final on the Summit Pro-Am Tour. Thompson found himself matched up with longtime friend and rival Rick McDonough and got it done on the tree with a .013 reaction time and a 4.706, 148.63 lap on a 4.69 dial in the 1/8 mile showdown.

In Top Dragster Victor Fera won a close one over Jon Siegel, while Super Stock was headed by IHRA veteran Mark Nowicki who took the win over Pat Clifford.