Richie Stevens Jr., made his own luck in Las Vegas on Sunday at the ACDelco NHRA Nationals, as the Team Mopar Pro Stocker scorched the lights with a jaw-dropping .002 reaction time, giving him a holeshot win over the newly-crowned NHRA Pro Stock champ Jason Line in the final round. Stevens Jr.'s second win of the season came during a weekend that saw Mopar Hemi power also triumph in the NHRA Funny Car (Jack Beckman) and NHRA Top Fuel (Tony Schumacher) divisions.

Stevens Jr., overcame a qualifying effort at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in which he placed next to last at 15th in his Don Schumacher Racing/J & J Racing Mopar/Valspar Dodge Stratus R/T. Unfortunately, his first-round win came at the expense of the man who has helped him catch fire in recent weeks, Allen Johnson. Despite a slower reaction time than AJ, who qualified his Team Mopar J & J Racing Dodge Stratus R/T No. 2, Stevens Jr., held on to advance after Johnson experienced problems and pushed in the clutch.

It was another battle of the Mopars in the second round, as Stevens Jr., dealt a loss to Larry Morgan and his ZMax Dodge Stratus R/T team. He posted a stellar .007 reaction time in his defeat of Morgan, and matched that time with another .007 in his semifinals victory over Dave Connolly. Stevens Jr.'s finals win over Line came with a pass of 6.789 at 202.85 mph. The victory was his sixth career win and his second in four races since teaming with J & J Racing's Allen and Roy Johnson.

"We've got something that works with Roy and Allen," said Stevens Jr. "They have really showed that they can step forward and put this car where it needs to be. They've done a hell of a job with the power and supplying it to us, and my crew has been great. It has finally rebounded to where it should be, and it shows."

The Mopar Pro Stockers will look to continue their recent winning ways at the upcoming season finale in the Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals, scheduled for November 9-12 in Pomona, Calif. For more info on the NHRA, log on to nhra.com.

Jack Beckman piloted his Matco Tools Iron Eagle Dodge Charger R/T to an unlikely win on Sunday at the ACDelco NHRA Nationals, visiting victory lane only days after the Team Mopar driver celebrated his two-year mark in recovery from lymphoma, a cancer that attacks the immune system. Beckman's win also remarkable in that it came in only his fourth career NHRA Funny Car start.

Beckman qualified fourth at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and vanquished Gary Densham, Del Worsham, Tony Bartone and Tommy Johnson Jr., in the run to his first NHRA Wally trophy. The victory is the eighth this year for a Don Schumacher Racing and Mopar Hemi-powered Funny Car.

"I've always kind of thought to myself, you want to be a dignified loser, you want to be a dignified winner," said Beckman, who underwent six months of chemotherapy in his successful battle to beat his cancer. "It kind of went out the door when the roof hatch opened down there at the other end. To do something like this has been a dream of mine for thirty-three years, since I was seven, and I first got taken to a drag strip. And it's something that you want very much."

Vegas luck eluded Beckman's Mopar and Don Schumacher Racing teammates. Ron Capps and his Brut Revolution Dodge Charger R/T team exited in the first round, losing a close one to Scott Kalitta. Capps, second in the NHRA Funny Car points standings, lost ground to points leader John Force but remains in the title hunt entering the final event in Pomona. Gary Scelzi failed to drive his Mopar/Oakley Dodge Charger R/T to a first-round win, losing to Tony Pedregon, and Mike Ashley bowed out in his Skull Racing Gear Dodge Charger R/T, exiting at the hands of Worsham in a first-round match.

Combined with Richie Stevens Jr.'s Pro Stock win and Tony Schumacher's Top Fuel victory, Don Schumacher Racing and Mopar Hemi-power took wins in three of the top four NHRA divisions. The Mopar Funny Car foursome will end the season at the upcoming Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals, scheduled for November 9-12 in Pomona, Calif. For more info on the NHRA, log on to nhra.com.

Team Mopar wrapped up the 2006 World of Outlaws Sprint Series season at The Dirt Track @ Las Vegas Motor Speedway over the weekend, coming away from the event with four Top-five finishes. Joey Saldana and the No. 9 Kasey Kahne Racing team won Friday's second heat race en route to a fifth-place finish in the A-main. In the Saturday event, Saldana battled his way to the front in the A-main, capping the weekend with a fourth-place finish. Saldana finished the season ranked third in the World of Outlaws Sprint Series championship.

Paul McMahan and the No. 20 Tony Stewart Motorsports team took the checkered flag in fourth on Friday night to lock it into the dash event in Saturday's A-main event finale. Earning a fourth-place finish in the dash, McMahan drove to a fifth-place finish in the A-main to end the team's season.

The No. 5 Forbrook Motorsports team returned to action on Friday and Saturday, as driver Shane Stewart picked up a sixth-place finish to start the team's weekend run. An on-track altercation during the B-main event on Saturday ended the team's run prematurely, with Stewart credited with a 19th place-finish.

For more information regarding the World of Outlaws Sprint Series, log on to theworldofoutlaws.com.