Kenny Bernstein announced over the Labor Day weekend that he would most
likely borrow an existing Funny Car to begin licensing procedures for
next season's return. Bernstein told Torco's CompetitionPlus.com that
he is going to wait until his new Monster-sponsored Dodge Funny Car is
completed.

LINE
CLINCHES NHRA POWERADE SERIES PRO STOCK CHAMPIONSHIP; Schumacher,
Beckman, Stevens and Hines earn victories at ACDelco Las Vegas NHRA
Nationals

Third-year Pro Stock driver Jason Line captured the first
NHRA POWERade world championship of the season Sunday at the ACDelco Las Vegas NHRA Nationals in Las Vegas.

After
collecting the $200,000 series champion's check, Line shared the
spotlight with race winners Tony Schumacher (Top Fuel), Jack
Beckman(Funny Car), Richie Stevens (Pro Stock), and Andrew Hines (Pro
StockMotorcycle) at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
"I can't believe it," Line said. "This doesn't seem real. It's been
coming but now that it's finally happened I don't even know what to
say."

Line needed to earn 20 more points than teammate and three-time
defending category champ Greg Anderson to clinch the crown and
accomplished that in a head-to-head meeting in the semifinals. The
championship is the fourth in a row for Las Vegas-based team owner Ken
Black.

"It's bittersweet to clinch it against Greg," said Line, who has earned
four victories in eight final rounds this season in his Summit Racing
Pontiac
GTO. "He's the man. He's my champion. I love the guy and to me he'll
always be the man. If not for him giving me the chance to drive inthe
first place, I wouldn't be standing here. To keep the championship
within the team is huge. There is a huge group of people responsible
for what happens on the racetrack and this championship will be shared
byall of us. It's a great group that Ken has put together and I'm proud
tobe a part of it."

Sunday's final results from the Sixth annual ACDelco Las Vegas NHRA
Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The $1.8million
race is the 22nd of 23 in the $50 million NHRA POWERade DragRacing Series:

Top Fuel -- Tony Schumacher, 4.469 seconds, 313.58 mph def. J.R. Todd,
4.550 seconds, 320.81 mph.

Final round-by-round results from the Sixth annual ACDelco
Las Vegas NHRA Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the
22nd of 23 events in the $50 million NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series:

Point standings (top 10) for NHRA professional categories
following the Sixth annual ACDelco Las Vegas NHRA Nationals at The Strip
at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the 22nd of 23 events in the $50 million
NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series -

 
Larry Dixon turned
some heads on Saturday at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

This is what happens when your Funny Car noses over at 600 feet. Funny
Car racer Grant Dowing was uninjured in the Friday night blast.

Hot Rod Fuller was on a strong run until the engine let go in a huge fireball. (ESPN2/Motel 6 Vision)

SATURDAY - KALITTA RACES TO $100,000 BUDWEISER SHOOTOUT VICTORY AT ACDELCO LAS
VEGAS
NHRA NATIONALS Schumacher, Hight, Line and Gann are No. 1 qualifiers at The
Strip at LVMS

Top Fuel points leader Doug Kalitta raced to the $100,000 win in the Budweiser Shootout, highlighting Saturday's racing at the
ACDelco Las Vegas NHRA Nationals.

Kalitta held off Rod Fuller to claim his third victory in the Budweiser
Shootout, a special race-within-a-race bonus event for the category's
top eight qualifiers from the previous year.

Tony Schumacher, Robert Hight, Jason Line, and Shawn Gann earned No. 1
qualifying honors at the POWERade Drag Racing Series' penultimate
event.

Schumacher (4.445 seconds in Top Fuel) and Hight (4.677 in Funny Car)
neared national record numbers en route to the low qualifier podium.
Line (6.704 in Pro Stock) and Gann (7.090 in Pro Stock Motorcycle) settled for Las Vegas Motor Speedway records.

In the Shootout final, Kalitta and Fuller's cars were side-by-side all
the way down the track until Fuller's David Powers Homes/Valvoline
dragster lost its blower belt just past the 1,000-foot timer and slowed
suddenly. Kalitta's Mac Tools/Von Dutch machine kept charging.