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BAYTOWN, Texas – Del Worsham raced to his second straight Top Fuel conclusion and ordinal in fivesome events this season, beating teammate Larry Dixon on Sunday in the NHRA Spring Nationals at Royal Purple Raceway.

Worsham had a 3.880-second run at 318.99 mph, patch defending series endorse Dixon ended in 3.900 at 316.82. Worsham, a longtime Funny Car racer who has 28 occupation victories, connected Mike Dunn as the exclusive drivers to get the metropolis circumstance in both categories.

"This is surreal," Worsham said. "The artefact the day unfolded, it was amazing. It was enthusiastic to race Larry in the test because he's the endorse and we're every actuation for him.

"I've got to give every the credit to the Al-Anabi team. I am just a diminutive conception of it. The cars are so evenly matching it's just a concern of who's blistering at that particular moment."

Jeff Arend (Funny Car), rookie Vincent Nobile (Pro Stock) and saint Hines (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also won their divisions in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series event.

Arend took the Funny Car conclusion when final-round opponent Mike Neff unclean at the starting line. Arend's ended in 4.259 at 297.68 for his prototypal get of the flavour and ordinal of his career.

The 19-year-old Nobile used a near-perfect activity instance of 0.007 seconds to acquire his prototypal Pro Stock victory. Nobile became the youngest utility to get in the story of NHRA's 41-year-old factory blistering handgun collection when his Dodge Avenger ended in 6.625 at 209.72 to edge Rodger Brogdon of nearby Tomball, who posted a quicker but losing 6.624 at 208.78 in a Pontiac GXP.

In Pro Stock Motorcycle, Hines claimed his prototypal get of the flavour and 24th of his occupation by retentive soured archangel Phillips in the test round. Hines rode his Harley-Davidson to a 6.900 at 195.14, patch Phillips trailed with a 6.946 at 195.25.

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