Former WFA Champion Jim Maroney was running this event without some of his regular crew members, so some of the other teams jumped in to help when their own cars were ready. Jim, however, continued to overpower the track with his 526” hemi-powered Ford “Blind Faith” roadster. They had installed a huge new fuel funny car-style rear wing in an effort to hook the car up. Dubbed the “Rumble Seat” by the crew, it got a lot of attention from racers and fans alike. But on the eighth-mile track it didn’t appear to help as much as they had hoped.

By the second round, the sun was off the track and there was some shuffling of the qualifying sheet, as Greg Holeman really stepped up with a fine 4.554, which put him as the second-quick car of qualifying.

Oberg ran quicker in the second round with a beautiful 4.488 for low ET of the meet as well. He initiated the run with a burnout worthy of anything John Force has ever done – an eighth-mile-PLUS smoker! Track officials verified it as the longest powered burnout in the track’s history. In the words of legendary NHRA announcer Bob Frey, “the crowd went wild”, and needless to say, Oberg won the Burnout Contest $100 certificate from Good Vibrations Motorsports. He also took the RBS Superchargers #1 Qualifier Award.

Rob Winefsky’s 500” JFR Ford-powered Bantam took the Torco Oils Best Reaction Time cash with a nice 0.022 in the first round.

The final rolled to the line just about 10:30 p.m., and paired the Ford roadster of Holeman against the beautiful orange Funny Car of Oberg. There were no long burnouts this time, as both had come to race. However, the sharp-eyed Barona starting line crew quickly shut Oberg off when they noticed a trail of 60-weight coming out beneath the car - a loose oil line was the culprit.

Holeman made a single at 4.593/155.58 for the win. Afterwards, he said, “I hate to win that way, but there’s no such thing as an ugly win light.”