Robert Hight, Spencer Massey, Larry Morgan and Andrew Hines were winners of the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series event at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The race is the fifth of six events in the Countdown to 1, NHRA’s championship playoffs.
Jamie McMurray, odd-man out in Jack Roush's compliance move to fielding a maximum of four teams in 2010, crept home the winner in a green-white-checker finish that only made it three-quarters-of-a-lap before a wild crash brought out a caution flag making McMurray the winner.
Northwest NHRA racing may have closed out the season but regional drivers are still fanned out across the Western United States hunting for championships.
Mike Edwards, who earned his 21st No. 1 effort of his career with a track record performance of 6.623 at 207.75 in his A.R.T. Pontiac GXP, needs to lead the second place driver by at least 151 points following eliminations to secure the title.
With a push from teammate Aric Almirola, Kyle Busch surged past Todd Bodine in the final quarter-mile of Saturday's Mountain Dew 250 fueld by Fred's at Talladega Superspeedway to win his sixth race of the season and the 15th of his career.
Motorsports correspondent Doug Pace keeps up with motorsports news and notes from around the region.
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