Menards NHRA Heartland Nationals Super Gas winner Kevin Theobald
A new champion was also crowned in Super Gas after Kevin Theobald overcame a nearly perfect .001 reaction time by Bob Fuller to earn his first national event Wally. Theobald, in his unique Dodge Viper, ran closer to the index with a 9.927 to Fuller’s 9.956, with the difference at the finish line just .011-second. Theobald used back-to-back 9.901 runs in the second and third rounds to defeat Shane Herrman and Steve Collier and also got the best of a double-breakout battle against Scott Udenberg’s Dodge Challenger in the semifinals.