Chris Cutsinger’s rebound from off-season heart surgery is complete after he qualified number 1 and won HMH Motorsports Coatings Pro Open. Running consistent 6.70s-.80s all weekend, Cutsinger beat Ron Maddox in an all-turbo Funnybike final.

And speaking of comebacks, how about one that stretches all the way back to 2008 in Norwalk? That’s when and where Jeff Lindeman crashed his Pro Mod bike at an AMA/Dragbike race. Les Stimac won last year’s Quicktime Motorsports/Lindeman Performance Pro Ultra 4.60 championship on the same bike, with Lindeman throwing his leg over the machine in Louisville for the first time in seven years. This year, Stimac has moved on and Lindeman is back riding fulltime in the world’s quickest two wheeled index class.

Jeff Lindeman

Lindeman has finally gotten the bike dialed in for his size (considerably taller than Stimac) and qualified number 1 at Gateway with a 4.618 in the eighth mile class. He faced a stiff challenge from Randy Butler, also running consistently at the number. But despite a commanding reaction time advantage, Butler broke out by .004 in the final and Lindeman scored the win.

Was it a revolutionary changing of the guard or a fluke blip on the radar? Although the no-bar revolution is over 15 years old, one sportsman class has been staunchly protected by wheelie-bar racers—G&G Metal Spinners Top Gas. But when multi-time champ Greg Mallett gave up the finishline to Jeremy Teasley in the Gateway semis, the first ever all-no-bar bike Top Gas final was assured.