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Greg Anderson raced to his first Pro Stock victory of the season Sunday at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals and pulled off a Pro Stock Sweep by winning the K&N Horsepower Challenge. Larry Dixon, Tim Wilkerson and Matt Smith also were winners in their respective categories at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series event at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park.
In winning the Pro Stock final, three-time world champ Anderson pocketed more than $125,000 for the weekend by sweeping today's eliminations and Saturday's K&N Horsepower Challenge all-star event, which includes a $25,000 double-up bonus from NHRA.
Anderson vs. Johnson |
Anderson outran Allen Johnson in the final round for his 61st career victory. Anderson's Summit Racing Pontiac GXP posted a winning performance of 6.722 seconds at 204.54 mph to hold off Johnson's Team Mopar Dodge Avenger, which slowed at mid-track and finished in 6.982 at 159.38.
"This is beyond a dream weekend," said Anderson, who also swept both races in 2004. "I couldn't have even have dreamed anything this big before we came here this week. I just hoped and prayed that we came here with a good performance and functioned properly throughout the weekend and just had a slight chance of sneaking a few round-wins and maybe a lucky victory away, and we ended up sweeping the weekend and taking every doggone nickel they had to give. It's been a long time since we've had a weekend like this. I guess I've got to go back three or four years when we had a car that could do these things."
Cleves, OH: Luke Bogacki drove his ThisIsBracketRacing.com backed American Race Cars Dragster to a pair of final round appearances last Saturday at the 5th Annual Ultimate 64 Shootout held at Edgewater Sports Park near Cincinnati, OH. The Saturday festivities began with the feature event of the weekend, the Ultimate 64 $50,000 Shootout. In that race, Bogacki maneuvered through a field of 64 of the top sportsman competitors in the nation to advance to a final round confrontation with longtime Cincinnati-area standout competitor Brian Newport with the huge $50,000 payday on the line. Bogacki fell short of the top prize, lighting a heart-breaking -.003 red light in the final stanza and handing the win to Newport. 
The team debuted a Top Dragster entry at the opening round at Cayuga last month, and with team co-owner Bill White, Wildgust is looking to a positive season of racing.
