Not many eighteen year olds have a Pro Street win on their resume, but DME Racing’s Chris Connelly Jr. does now after winning Pro Street B. Connelly (shown) was one of many riders who ran their first 6s this weekend, running 6.98 at 203 to beat Jeremy St. Julien in the final.

Quicktime Motorsports’ Rudy Sanzottera’s big agenda for the weekend was to protect his dad Marty “Pops” Sanzottera’s HMH Motorsports Coatings Pro Open points lead while Pops recovers from serious injuries sustained in a recent road crash.

To do that, Rudy had to pour more coals onto his no-bar, turbo-‘Busa’s fire and he did, qualifying number one with a 6.99 at 202 mph.

Chris Cutsinger

But opponent Chris Cutsinger had his turbo-’Busa funnybike sitting back on the wheelie bars and running full-tilt boogie all day raceday and was giving no quarter.

Neither was Rudy. When the additional boost ruptured the plenum, Rudy set to work installing bolts and a strap. It wasn’t enough. After running a 6.49 low ET of the meet (along with a 210 mph trap speed—both personal bests) in E1, Cutsinger slowed to 6.60 in the final, but Rudy’s injured mount couldn’t respond. Cutsinger took the win and the championship.

The whole NHDRO family continues to wish Pops a speedy recovery and look forward to seeing him back on his badass Quicktime ‘Busa in 2017.

Fast Times Motorsports rider Chase Morris came into the finals quite a bit behind Jeff Lindeman in points—until a race was dropped, as per this year’s rules. Lindeman’s championship hopes were wounded (terminally, it turned out) when he lost to Ricky Scott Jr.—riding Randy Butler’s August race winning bike—in E1.

Scott went on to meet Morris in the final, where he slapped a .009 light on Chase (who had an .027) for a 4.633 to 4.633 identical ETs win. Morris, though, scored the championship in his first year of racing.

Heather Baldi unpacked at Indy with the G&G Metal Spinners Top Gas points lead, but kicking a rod through the side of her motor was a poor start to the weekend. Then a motor donated out of sister Rachel Wagner’s Super Comp bike sustained head damage, keeping dad Mike Wagner up most of the night Frankensteining something together.