Mike Murillo has been running both the NMRA and NMCA series this year and has the Super Street championship locked up. Though this weekend will depend solely on what happens in the finals. Second in points Tim Essick still has the ability to snatch the Pro Outlaw 10.5 championship away from Murillo with only a 100 points separating the two.

Joel Greathouse, who had previously been on quarter mile duties for John Kolivas' Mustang, is now campaigning Brad Medlock's old Super Street Outlaw Mustang, as Medlock has made a switch to Drag Radial. Greathouse is no stranger to Mustang drag racing and use to drive Mark VanMeter's beautiful Outlaw 10.5W Mustang dating back in 2005.

If you are looking for a turn key and fast Drag Radial Mustang, then you need to get a hold of Sean Lyon. With his four year old chassis, Lyon has begin to build a new Mustang for the 2012 series. He doesn't know what he plans to do with it yet, but X275 and maybe a little Super Street Outlaw will probably be where he will be racing.

Chris Tuten has a shot to take the Super Street Outlaw number one spot away from multi-time defending champion John Urist. Tuten has been fast all year, breaking the 200 MPH barrier at the Bradenton opener and running 7.08 at Atlanta. But Tuten has been running on old parts and things keep breaking...he even just recently upgraded his 8.8 rear end to a 9-inch. Now he has swapped out the majority of his old parts for new and is going for broke this weekend.

The man with too many cars Don Baskin is campaigning his Pure Street Mustang this weekend, and the last time he raced this car was Bowling Green 2010. Baskin Trucking campaigns a variety of vehicles in almost every NMCA head up class.

Jim Brown is back out with his freshly rebuilt Pro Outlaw 10.5 Mustang that has been converted from nitrous to supercharged. The team has been trashing to get the car here for the race and the first test hit resulted in some parts coming off after the burn out. For their second test and tune pass, Brown lifted mid track after a strong 60 foot.

One racer we were happy to see here this weekend is Victor Nieblas, who suffered a massive heart attack while preparing for the NMRA Georgia race back in April. We are happy to report that he is healthy enough now to be back behind the wheel.

The test and tune session didn't result in any really fast heads up passes. A head wind mixed with the cool air is keeping the track from holding a lot of heat. Two good wheels up launches went to Jason Lee and Dwyane James.

Mike Murillo is showing that he isn't playing this weekend and wants to secure the Pro Outlaw 10.5 championship as fast as possible. On an arrow-straight pass, Murillo nearly eclipsed his ET and MPH record with a 6.656 @ 217.11 mph. The rest of the four car field had a hard time getting down the track.

John Urist showed why he has six championship rings by posting a solid 7.060 @ 207 mph - huge mile per hour for a true 10.5 tire. I asked Urist if it's possible that we could see the first Super Street Outlaw 6-second pass this weekend, and he responded "...it's a possibility."

Could this possibly be foreshadowing the matchup for Sunday's final round?

Bruce Hemminger stunned the crowd in Real Street when he posted up the second ever (Dan Baumann did it before but could not back it up) 9-teen pass with a 9.194 @ a mile per hour record 144.66 mph. Hemminger has clinched the NMRA 2012 Real Street championship.

Zane Reed has had a string of bad luck in Factory Stock lately, which got worse today when Reed rolled the modular-powered Fox body off the trailer...and spun a bearing. They are hoping to get the motor fixed in time for tomorrow's qualifying session.

During Tim Matherly's qualifying run, it sounded like it had a constant velocity transmission in it, which was really just massive clutch slippage. The crew was just finishing up the install and will be ready for tomorrow's final qualifying.