07 Nightfire #2

Former Junior Dragster and current High School standout Courtney Alley nearly pulled off the Pro title on Friday night. Against Troy Pecht, she ran 10.64 (10.66 dial) against a dead perfect 10.19 (10.19) run by Pecht. It was a very impressive outing, considering it was her first.

The first to bust the Jack Harris (5.85) track record on Saturday night was Jim Murphy (near side). His sensational 5.838-248.07 was bumped down one spot in the next pair as Brad Thompson thundered down the same lane at 5.832!

Snow/Bike champion Tim Skougard from Utah held off Rich Pedraza's late charge to take home the National Dragster Challenge Wally trophy.

With stout header flames, the Richard Stannard-owned and Ed Schwarz-driven Fuel Altered carded a best of 6.55-212.96.

Dan Lafferty, who had twice previously won the Allstar Dash for Cash, pocketed yet another $1,000 in cash put up by Bill New for the Bracketeer veterans. He ran 7.51 on a 7.51 to clip Scott Lemen's 8.21 (8.19). Lemen went home with a free four-day entry to the 2008 race.

Long Distance recipient Bill Harper came almost 2,000 miles to compete in Pro Modified, but missed making the cut for the 8-car field.

The "Nitro Thunder" team scored the AA/Funny Car title presented by Carl's Jr. Jack Harris set a new track e.t. mark at 6.24 before defeating Jeff Utterback in the final.

How `bout that Lynde Fischer! She was the first to wrap up the National Dragster Challenge championship in the Sportsman class.

Arizona's Greg Daebelliehn was overshadowed by Greg Uffens (far side) 5.37 with a weekend best of 5.96-219.35.

Vern Mills debuted his very sweet `55 Chevy Pro Modified at the Nightfire, but missed making the 8-car cut.

The largest field of Arizona racers in recent times made the trek to the Nightfire including Matt Hawk from Tucson who raced this Pro eliminator `70 Maverick.

Shannon Stuart and Troy Green locked horns during Saturday night qualifying. Green belted out a 5.95 to a 6.63 for the Bob Richardson owned Circuit Breaker dragster.

It's just amazing Greg Hindman made the Nightfire after crashing in Woodburn in mid-July. Thanks to a lot of people who burnt the midnight oil, Greg picked up the Quickest Door Car award at 7.34.

Here's the run that Brad Thompson dropped the e.t. bomb on all Top Fuel Challengers. 5.832!!!! Considering it was nearly 6,000' of corrected makes the run even more outstanding. Rick McGee thundered a bit back at 6.04.

Perennial Top Fire favorite Randy Johnson was defeated by eventual winner Lloyd Flatum in the second round of Full Bodied by just .009!