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ROUND-BY-ROUND PRO RESULTS FROM LAS VEGAS

Final round-by-round results from the 11th annual SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the sixth of 23 events in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series:

POINT STANDINGS FOLLOWING LAS VEGAS

Point standings (top 10) for NHRA professional categories following the 11th annual SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the sixth of 23 events in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series -

FINAL ROUND PHOTOS FROM LAS VEGAS

Sunday's final results from the 11th annual SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The race is the sixth of 23 in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series:

VEGAS PROVES NO RACE DAY LUCK FOR EDWARDS

In the past nine months, there have been very few obstacles capable of stopping Pro tn_lvfridaydis_2_0161_20100416_1663074023Stock racer Mike Edwards. Amazingly, the Strip at Las Vegas has been one of those obstacles.

ANTRON: WORKING TOWARD THE FUTURE

As Antron Brown peeked out his window this morning what he saw brought a smile to his face. Brown antronhad expected to see clouds in the sky. What he saw was blue sky which was just perfect.

The day prior, Brown had predicated his 3.881 from the second round of qualifying couldn't survive the possible onslaught from his competitors running on a cooler racetrack.

WORSHAM RIDES NEW SLICKS INTO SUNDAY QUALIFIED NO. 1

Del Worsham rode a set of the new Goodyear tires to the number one qualifying spot in the MGR_3981SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas.

Worsham's 4.187 second, 297.75 mph pass in his '10 Toyota Solara, his second on the new Goodyear tire, was eight thousands of a second quicker than Ashley Force Hood's second round qualifying effort on Friday.

The pole is Worsham's fifth on his career, but his first since Reading in 2007.

4-WIDE FROM THE SPONSOR'S VIEWPOINT

dsa_6003_20100328_1064314218Charlotte Lucas said she had to wonder why Bruton Smith was talking about converting The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway from two lanes to four. And she was curious why she was hearing talk that the architect of four-wide racing and chairman of Speedway Motorsports Inc. wanted to bring a four-wide dragstrip to his New Hampshire facility.
 
Four-wide racing was still an untested quantity when she and husband Forrest Lucas -- owners of Lucas Oil, Top Fuel team owners, and sponsors of several professional drag-racing teams -- spoke with NHRA officials this February at the season-opening Winternationals.
 
"The NHRA told Forrest and me at Pomona that they would try it and if it didn't work out, they wouldn't do it again," Charlotte Lucas said. "I can't see Bruton Smith going out and spending a lot more money without the NHRA saying something [encouraging to him]. It doesn't make sense."

GREER QUICK 8 PROVES TO BE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

Greer Dragway, located in the Upstate of South Carolina, staged their first Pro Modified Quick Eight in over sixteen years and the end result was a survival of the fittest competition.

Brian Mason emerged as the king of the hill when, after the semis, two of the combatants crashed and one team couldn't return after first round engine damage.

LINE REACHES PERSONAL MILESTONE

Pro Stock standout Jason Line reached a personal milestone on Saturday at the SummitRacing.com lineNationals in Las Vegas, NV, simultaneously etching his name into the NHRA record books.  On the strength of a 6.748-second, 205.07 mph run in the morning session, the Minnesota native claimed the ninth starting position for Sunday’s final eliminations at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.  This not only marks the 150th start of Line’s Pro Stock career, but is also the first time anyone in the class has qualified for their first 150 races.

EDWARDS MAKES IT THREE IN A ROW

Mike Edwards rode his third round qualifying pass of 6.67 seconds, 205.99 mph, to the number one qualifying spot for the edwardsSummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals at The Strip in Las Vegas.

This is the fifth pole position for Edwards in six races this year,  third straight at this track and 27th of his Pro Stock career.

Track temperatures soured above the 120 degree mark during the final session and we at their peak as Edwards squared off against Roger Brogdon. Brogdon closed the gap between himself and Edwards in the round, but will go off third in Sunday eliminations, behind Edwards and Ron Krisher.

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