Jeremy Ray raced to his first career victory during the E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by J&A Service portion of the AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals. This weekend’s Pro Mod racing, presented by Bruce Lowrie Chevrolet, is the 10th of 12 races this season.

Ray won on a holeshot with his pass of 5.785-second at 248.07 mph in his ’63 Corvette to Justin Bond’s 5.774 at 255.53. This is his first season in the E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series.

Texas native Steve Torrence piloted his dragster to the Top Fuel winners circle Sunday afternoon to secure his first career victory at his hometown race, the AAA Texas NHRA Nationals at Texas Motorplex.

Robert Hight (Funny Car), Tanner Gray (Pro Stock), and LE Tonglet (Pro Stock Motorcycle) were also winners in their respective categories at the third of six playoff events during the 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Countdown to the Championship.

Sunday's final sportsman results from the 33rd annual AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals at Texas Motorplex. The race is the 21st of 24 in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series:

Point standings (top 10) following the 33rd annual AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals at Texas Motorplex, the 21st of 24 events in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series -

Final round-by-round results from the 33rd annual AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals at Texas Motorplex, the 21st of 24 events in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series:

Cruz Pedregon has run through a number of Toyota Camry Funny Car bodies this season, and this weekend he’s back in the one he dubbed “El Cucuy.” The pink-highlighted new breast-cancer-awareness paint scheme caused the two-time Funny Car champion to say, "El Cucuy may mean 'The Boogeyman,' but this month it will be a frighteningly good guy when we push the Snap-on Toyota and generate exposure for The Pink Fund and its important work. Snap-on and our team support the mission of The Pink Fund to provide for non-medical living expenses – like transportation, utilities, and housing – of breast-cancer patients undergoing the fight of their lives."

Part-time Top Fuel racer Kebin Kinsley, of Arlington, Texas, put Roger Hennen’s Road Rage Dragster into the tentative lineup Friday night at a respectable No. 12. But he came back out Saturday and leaped to the No. 6, lowering his best time of the weekend from 3.883 seconds to 3.803 and picking up some speed, from 317.19 mph to 317.34.

Surely the boost this weekend is a reflection of the one-race addition of longtime and respected crew chief Jim Oberhofer.

“That was awesome. Thank God for Jim O! I’m ecstatic,” Kinsley declared when he climbed from his dragster at the top end of the track in the third overall session Saturday.

Jeg Coughlin Jr. is playing catch-up right now in his quest to win a fifth NHRA Pro Stock world championship.

Coughlin entered the AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals near Dallas in fourth place, 81 points behind leader Tanner Gray.

Since NHRA’s six race Countdown to the Championship began, the Screamin’ Eagle Harley-Davidson team of Eddie Krawiec and Andrew Hines has not been on top of its game.

Krawiec and Hines are perennial world champions, with Krawiec being the reigning world champion. Yet, when Krawiec and Hines arrived at the NHRA FallNationals, the third race of the Countdown, they were third and fifth in the standings and 41 and 62 points behind points leader Matt Smith.