Point standings (top 10) following the 57th annual Auto Club NHRA Finals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, the final of 22 events in the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series -

Final round-by-round results from the 57th annual Auto Club NHRA Finals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, the final of 22 events in the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series:

Sunday's final results from the 57th annual Auto Club NHRA Finals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona. The race is the final of 22 in the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series:

The maximum number of points a driver in Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, and Pro Stock Motorcycle can earn this weekend at the NHRA Finals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, Calif., is 191. 

Only 199 points separate top-ranked Brittany Force and No. 10 Clay Millican in the Top Fuel class, but the champion will almost certainly come from the trio of Force, No. 2 Justin Ashley, or No. 3 Mike Salinas. Antron Brown is fourth, 78 points behind Force, and Steve Torrence is fifth, 87 points back. With too many drivers to leapfrog, No. 6 Austin Prock (-126) and No. 7 Josh Hart (-161), have slipped out of the championship conversation.  

Force, the 2017 champion, knows her second title isn’t a guaranteed deal. 

Fans hungry for a championship battle in the Funny Car category this weekend at the Auto Club NHRA Finals have so far not been disappointed.

Each of the top three drivers in the class have experienced extreme highs and lows through two days of competition. And if Friday was an appetizer and Saturday the main course, the dessert will come on Sunday.

Troy Coughlin Jr. has accomplished a lot in his young career.

Few of those accomplishments, however, quite stack up to what he achieved on Saturday.

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 Have any Bobby Baldwin gear? Maybe just some bright-blue and white clothing to honor the independent Top Fuel racer who competed from the 1980s through 2001? Well, get it out of the closet and wear it to Auto Club Raceway at Pomona! Maybe sit in “24/24,” Section 24, 24 rows up. That’s where Krista Baldwin has sat here at her hometown racetrack for 29 years, for many years watching her late father race and carrying on the tradition since he passed away unexpectedly in September 2001 from a brain aneurysm. 

Krista Baldwin is a spectator no longer. She’s competing for a spot in the 16-car show, like her dad and her mother’s dad, Chris Karamesines, have done. And at this race, her eighth NHRA national event this year but first at this sentimental and storied venue, her car is sporting the retro look of her dad’s dragster. 

Across all sports on nearly every continent, there comes a moment in every championship battle that defines what it truly means to be a champion.

Brittany Force hopes her moment came Friday night.

​There was no shortage of drama in the Funny Car category during opening day at the Auto Club NHRA Finals.

Robert Hight entered the NHRA season finale holding a narrow two-round advantage over championship rivals Ron Capps and Matt Hagan. He ended the day having lost that extra round advantage, while Hagan was able to leapfrog the defending series champion into second, just 59 points behind Hight.