By Rob Geiger Sr., NHRA.com senior editor
1/20/2008
The final day of the Nitro Blast-off ended with Larry Dixon and Scott Kalitta posting the best Top Fuel and Funny Car runs of the three-day test session at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Dixon zoomed to a 4.664 despite shutting his U.S. Smokeless Tobacco dragster off early, while Kalitta coaxed a 5.095 out of his DHL Solara after some huge half-track numbers.
With everyone working on 90-percent nitro for the first time under the current rules, Dixon and tuner Donnie Bender finally posted a four-second pass in Sunday's first session when they went 4.921 at 215.41 mph in a planned shutoff run that reached 1,000 until Dixon lifted...
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