NHRA officials confirmed today they have sent out a directive to all of the Funny Cars teams regulating the location of the team body between qualifying and elimination rounds, and the location from which they can clean the clutches.

Mike Edwards is like a 1950's radio show – the hits keep coming. And, when they stop, he just drops another quarter in the juke box baby!

Nearly shut out at Houston, he lost in the semi-final round, Edwards rolled into Las Vegas ready to gamble, not on luck, but on the solid performance of his race team.

“My team, as the Interstate logo says, is outrageously dependable,” said Edwards, after running his way to the fourth win of the season in six events, 24th of his career in 44 final round appearances. “To come here and run the conditions that were 180 degrees different from Houston, to make the adjustments to make this car run like it did here – they did an awesome job.”

Tony Pedregon suffered his second major fire in as many races. Just one race after blowing the body off of his Funny Car during the NHRA Springnationals in Houston, the two-time Funny Car champion blazed up his flopper in the semi-finals against Del Worsham.

It was a near flawless day for Larry Dixon and the Al Anabi Top Fuel dragster in the SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Dixon dispatched Steve Faria, Shawn Langdon and Doug Kalitta before squaring off again Cory McClenathan in the final round. McClenathan never had a chance. Dixon was out in front at the light and as McClenathan went up in tire smoke, Dixon cruised to his 51st career win with a 4.016 second, 313.37 mph pass.

The winningest driver in NHRA history, John Force, made more history at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He defeated former teammate and two-time world champion Tony Pedregon in the final round for his first Summitracing.com NHRA Nationals title and 129th national event win of his career. En route to the win Force defeated son-in-law Robert Hight, Houston winner Matt Hagan, and daughter Ashley Force Hood to reach the final.

Force faced a formidable foe in Pedregon in the final round. Even though Pedregon nearly burned his car in the semi-finals, the former Force Racing driver was at the line champing at the bit an hour later.

Melanie Troxel and the In-N-Out Burger Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car team have made a lot of progress during the first six races of the NHRA Full Throttle Series season.

After winning another elimination round Sunday and generally running well throughout this weekend's 11th annual SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals, Troxel just hopes the team is able to land more funding so they don't have to break their momentum.

Jay Payne claimed his 105th NHRA drag racing title Sunday at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, driving his FireIce/Brad Anderson Engineering Ford Mustang to victory in the Top Alcohol Funny Car class of the 11th annual SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals.

This was Payne's sixth triumph in Las Vegas, his 20th national event win in Top Alcohol Funny Car, and his 55th overall trophy run in the Top Alcohol Funny Car class. His other 50 NHRA victories have come in Top Alcohol Dragster, Pro Mod, and Super Stock.

Cory McClenathan lost two races in Las Vegas.

He lost the Top Fuel final round at the 11th annual NHRA Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and in doing so slipped to second in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series point standings. The point leader headed into this weekend trails Vegas winner Dixon by one point.

This was his 60th career final round and third of the season.

When a 14-time Funny Car champion talks, lots of people listen. Force has been talking to folks at Las Vegas Motor Speedway about operating a driving school at the Strip and those people are listening.

Force says should the idea come to fruition, both his daughter Ashley Force Hood and his son-in-law, Robert Hight would be hands on involved in the school along with himself, of course.

John Force continued his comeback run by racing to the Funny Car victory Sunday at the SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.