Monday's final results from the IHRA Canadian Nationals at Toronto
Motorsports Park. The race is part of the 2006 eMax Drag Racing Series:

Top Fuel -- Clay Millican, 5.233 seconds, 217.77 mph def. Doug Foley, 8.970 seconds, 66.55 mph.

The Power Glide Pro Mods took on the Quick 8 Outlaws in the
battle of the
Power Glides. When the smoke had cleared Ronnie Davis had ran a 4.21, 173.66 in
qualifying and went on to win the race beating Jeff Tyson by a 4.29 to a 4.35
margin.That marked Davis’s 16th final round of 2006 drawing closer to last
season’s 17 final personal best. Davis
is reportedly going for 20 this year and at this pace he'll make it. Davis is also leading the
NHRA Div.2 Top Sportsman division.

SCARY MOMENT

Torco's CompetitionPlus.com's ace photog Chris Simmons had a front row seat on the top end Doug Foley's final round crash. Foley was transported by ambulance to West Haldimand General Hospital in
nearby Hagersville, Ontario, for testing and observation following a crash
during the Top Fuel final round of the IHRA Canadian Nationals. Foley was
conscious and talking.

Millican Takes Bitter-Sweet Win
at Toronto Motorsports Park

Foley Conscious and
Talking After Final Round Crash

Clay Millican moved back to the top of
the IHRA Knoll Gas-Torco Racing Fuels Pro Nitro Top Fuel championship points
standings with a victory over Doug Foley in the final round at the IHRA Canadian
Nationals at Toronto Motorsports Park. But the victory celebration was
short-lived as Millican’s concern following the race was on the well-being of
his friend and competitor.

In the final round Foley lost traction at
half-track, slid into the left lane and collided with the wall. His car bounced
back into the lane and drifted over into the right wall before coming to a stop.
Foley was conscious after the crash, but was transported to West Haldimand
General Hospital in Hagersville, Ontario, for further evaluation.

“I’ve
made the final at all three Canadian races this year, but today, to be honest
with you, I’d just assume I didn’t have this one,” said Millican. “I don’t want
to win the championship this way; I don’t want to win a race this
way.

“Besides everything today, this is definitely one of the most
exciting chases IHRA’s ever had in Top Fuel. We have the same kind of chase we
had my very first year racing Top Fuel when I lost the championship by seven
points. Going into first round today I was behind by seven points, and I thought
about that year, and how important every point is,” added Millican.

Doug Foley has been transported
by ambulance to West Haldimand General Hospital in nearby Hagersville,
Ontario, for testing and observation following a crash during the Top
Fuel final round of the IHRA Canadian Nationals. Foley was conscious
and talking.

We couldn't help but think of an old experience in backing up a car when we saw our old buddy Mark Carrier backing up driver Cory McClenathan. This one dates back to August of 2004 in Norwalk, Ohio.

One of the popular
rumors blanketing the Texas Motorplex surrounded Melanie Troxel and her plans
for 2007 and beyond. Scuttlebutt suggests her sponsor Evan Knoll will withdraw
his program from DSR and possibly head in a new direction with his driver intact. While no one close to
the issue will discuss anything at this point in time, Troxel has tuned out the
rumors.

“We get caught up in that as a team and we try to ignore all of
it,” Troxel said. “It’s really something that we’re not that involved in. It’s
stuff that other people are involved with and it’s our guess as to whether any
of it is true. It would be a big mistake for us to get caught up in that while
we still have a chance at winning this championship. These opportunities don’t
come around that often.

Mike Ashley warned the press corps after Friday’s qualifying press conference
that his Knoll Gas – Torco Race Fuels team was going to be a force to be
reckoned with. Sunday his words proved prophetic.

The two-time Pro
Modified champion, in his first full season as an NHRA POWERade Funny Car
driver, drove his Brian Corradi-tuned machine to his first career final round
before losing a tough match against top qualifier Robert Hight. Ironically, it
was Hight whom Ashley beat for his first career round victory in Las Vegas last
season.

BME
Engineering driver Alan Bradshaw has a new look and it could
potentially land him a role in a science fiction movie. Bradshaw has
orange eyes.

If you're the team owner and your veteran backer-upper is on the injured reserve list, what do you do? Mark Carrier was pressed into action when normal point man Brian Olson was injured earlier this week in a non-racing accident. Olson was assisting a friend with his home, which had burned down, when he fell 13-feet into the basement sustaining various injuries. Once Olson returns, he will resume the role. Carrier was having so much fun that he might not relenquish the role so easily.