With the chips on the table on Sunday, Screamin' Eagle Nitro Harley season champion and #1 qualifier Doug Vancil spun and lost in the second round. But Mark Cox got quicker in the heat of the afternoon on the yellow Bojangles/Crossroads H-D bike. After losing the tree to Mike Romine in the final, Cox throttled past Romine's red Oceans Eleven/Nuclear Tomato for the win.

Mark Conner parlayed his #1 JIMS Pro Fuel qualifying spot into another victory on the Marianne and Lonnie Isam-owned, Romine Racing-campaigned Flyin' Banana, with a win over Mike Lehman on the West Palm Beach H-D bike. Season champion Chris Streeter broke his arm on the job and put Fuel Bike Mike Rice in the seat for Vegas, but an oil leak put Rice on the trailer in round 1.

Steve Dorn capped off his dominant year with another win and a stunning 7.219 record on the Mark Elam-owned, Hugh Doty-motored Black Attack bike. Last year's champ Scott Truett runner-upped.

After wife Theresa gave birth to daughter Paige on Thursday, Tom Bradford qualified #1, won the race, and scored his third straight S&S Pro Stock championship on the Hal's Performance Advantage/Thunder Eagle Buell. Rick Maney actually outran Bradford on the track but lost it at the tree.

With the Hayes Jewelers Pro Gas title safely tucked away, Bradford turned his Lee Coffey Buell seat over to Jerry Chapman. Chapman runner-upped to Dirk Higgins, who took his second straight Hayes Jewelers Pro Gas win aboard Jon Miller's Thiels Wheels Buell. Higgins and Miller essentially conceded the Pro Stock championship to Bradford by entering Pro Gas in the last two races, but outperformed Bradford's Pro Stock bike all weekend in Vegas.

Cliff "Sasquatch" Dwy scored his first Joker Machine Pro Modified championship on Saturday. Aboard his Baker Drivetrain Buell, Dwy took Sunday's final-round win over Freedom H-D's Paul Smith. Dwy cut a wicked .408 bulb to Smith's sleepy .784.

Randy Borho throttled his Hugh Doty-motored bike past Verl "Smitty" Smith's Pumped Piglet for the Rivera Primo Street Pro win. After scoring his fourth class championship before the Vegas race, Travis Lummus went out in the second round with a shut-off fuel line.

Lakeland H-D/Buell's Donnie Huffman qualified #1 and won another Dragmasters Hot Street race on Chuck Bothe's '97 Buell, beating Nick Gonatas in the final. Huffman's second-half-of-the-season strength came too late to catch season champion David Atkins of the Dragmasters team.

Tripp Nobles capped off his season with a Screamin' Eagle V-Rod win over Larry Maynhart. Nobles' Don Tilley H-D bike held the performance advantage by a wide margin and continued to drive away from Maynhart the whole way down the track. #1 qualifier Jamie McNaughton went out with a transmission problem after setting the pace all weekend.

Chris Rivas beat new Red Line Oil Super Gas champion Willie Herschberger of the Dragmasters team despite the latter's good light in the final round.

Karen Wagner became the AHDRA's first female national champion when she won the Nonpareil Super Sport crown. Not only that, but Wanda Poff will also sport the #2 plate next year, as this class is all about the ladies - except in the Vegas final, where Dean Shields beat Brent Skavlem.

Aurora, Colorado's Eric Rodgers, son of racer Steve Rodgers, treed Wayne Pugh and stayed close to the number on his 2000 X1 Buell to score the Performance Corner Super Eliminator win at Vegas. Dragmaster Larry Guy won the championship, making it a hat trick for the Florida team.

Salt Lake City's Roger Sebastian rode his '93 Sportster past Allen Fong for the Screamin' Eagle Performance win. Professorial Dan DeGood wrapped up the season title, but really wanted to win the Syn 3 ET title. J.P. Hendrzak took that one, though, and Pennsylvania brickmeister Bruce Wevodau beat Lennard Scoville for the Vegas win.