Flex-a-lite Open Comp saw the largest car count of the weekend and North Carolina's Greg Essen (shown) pushed his way into the Aerospace Components Winner's Circle over class veteran Dennis Corn. The .003 reaction time by Essen was a good start and it would've been hard to overcome, so Corn stayed wide-open through the finish line and got there first. The problem was that Corn ran .002 under his index and handed the automatic win over to Essen!

Veteran NMRA racer Randy Conway used his 1984 Ranger to earn a victory at the season opening race for Detroit Locker Truck & Lightning. The Michigan resident took out everyone's favorite Ranchero owner, M.J. Smith.

The QA1 True Street class was huge as the final count settled in at 121 entries and Randy Seward collected another victory. He took the Overall Winner title thanks to an 8.32 average (8.33, 8.30, and 8.32). The Overall Runner-up was last year's class winner, Mike Jovanis, who finished the challenge with an 8.68 average. Other True Street class winners for the 2016 season opener include Grant Guise (9-second), Trevor Glasgow (10-second), Connie Greiner (11-second), Mike Baker (12-second), Daniel Augustine (13-second), Mary Ann Mammen (14-second), and Andrew Kelly (15-second).

The TREMEC Stick Shift Shootout recognizes the top eight stick-shift cars in True Street and the top two racers have a grudge race with a Tremec six-speed transmission as the prize. Jeff Smith met his VMP Performance teammate Rick Kaknes as they both shifted their Terminator Cobras to mid-to-low 10s. Smith was sharper on the tree, earning him the win light on the top-end with a winning, but slower, 10.48 at 137 mph to Kaknes' 10.28 at 142 mph.

The next stop on the NMRA tour is Atlanta Dragway in Commerce, GA, for the 8th Annual Borla Exhaust NMRA/NMCA All-Star Nationals presented by Miller Welders on April 7-10.