There is good. There is great. And then there is Robert Hight’s weekend in Seattle.

Most drivers only dream of a weekend as dominant as the one Hight, crew chief Jimmy Prock, and the John Force Racing team enjoyed at Pacific Raceways, as the driver of the Auto Club Chevrolet Camaro had low elapsed time in seven of his eight runs, claimed the No. 1 qualifying position and earned his second win in three races at the 30th annual NHRA Northwest Nationals.

“This is a weekend you dream about,” said Hight, who claimed his 39th career win on Sunday. “These cars are hard to run. They are finicky, lot of things can happen, and to do what we did this weekend was something else.

“We smoked the tires in Sonoma and weren’t even close. Jimmy Prock said we are not going to do that again. He said we are going to race smarter, be better and roll in here and run four-flat the first run soft. That was good enough for number two. Then, after that, all seven runs were low E.T. of every single session. That gives you, as a driver, so much confidence. It is just amazing to have that kind of dominating performance.”

Hight beat Tommy Johnson Jr. in the final with yet another chart-topping performance. With the Wally on the line, Johnson got away first in the Make-A-Wish Dodge Charger, but Prock Power took over as Hight was able to chase him down and catch him en route to posting the second quickest elapsed time of the entire weekend. Hight had a 3.890-second pass at 328.62 mph in the triumph, beating out Johnson’s 3.978 at 323.27 mph.

But the win wasn’t without drama.

“In the final, my heart stopped,” Hight said. “In the final round, you just want to roll in there, stop and be ready. This thing doesn’t have a lot of tug on it, so Jimmy runs a lot of stall in it. So when you let go of the brake, this thing doesn’t really want to roll. So I took a chunk and it lit the light, then it blinked on, off, and I thought, ‘this isn’t what you want to do in the final round.’

“I let go of the brake again and the tree comes down. Tommy Johnson left on me, but I was shallow as can be. And when you can run an .89 and just stand on the gas and be somewhat on time, you are going to win these races with a car like this.”

With the win - Hight’s first in Seattle - the veteran racer also collected win No. 250 for John Force Racing.

“It is a huge milestone. It wasn’t that long ago that I got 200 for John,” Hight said. “We were racing Mike Neff in Topeka, so one of us was going to get it and I ended up edging Neff out and got the 200th. It doesn’t seem like that long ago, but we have amassed 50 more and with the way our cars are running, 300 is not that far off.”

And, ironically, Hight had to take out the entire John Force Racing Funny Car stable to get that milestone win. Hight eliminated team-boss John Force in round two and Courtney Force in the semifinal, adding a win over Jeff Diehl in round one to reach his fourth final of the season.

In both, the Force family had strong runs, good enough to win against just about anybody - just not their teammate.

“You expect to race a teammate in the semis. It shows you qualified well. But racing John second round was not ideal,” Hight said. “It is not what we want to do and Jimmy Prock didn’t take either one of them lightly. When we are racing those Chevys we know how good they can be.

“We would certainly rather be racing them in the final, but to win one of these, you have got to go through a heavy-duty lineup. Tommy Johnson in the final, that is a great car, great team. You just have to take them one at a time and pick them off like we did today.”

Johnson had wins over Jim Campbell, Ron Capps and Matt Hagan to reach his fourth final of the year.

More than anything, Hight’s win in Seattle showed that this team is peaking at just the right time, winning two of the three races in the Western Swing with two races remaining before the Countdown to the Championship. It also showed that his team can get it done in varying conditions, an important element in the chase for championship No. 2.

“That is what really gives you confidence,” Hight said. “Last week in Sonoma we ran .80 flat, almost 340 mph, so that means we have a good combination when it is cool. And then you roll in here and it is hot and to be No. 1 qualifier again and be low E.T. just about every round shows that my guys really have a handle on these things. And that is not easy to do.

“You can have a good cold weather tuneup and not a hot weather tuneup or vise versa. They have got it going on wherever we are at.”

And while most teams will take a much-needed break after three-straight races, Hight is geared up to keep running this weekend at the annual Night Under Fire at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio.

“We don’t have a break,” Hight said. “John Force and I are going to Norwalk to do a little match racing. We will use it as a test session and hopefully get a little bit better.”