The 2008 NMCA Edelbrock Drag Racing Series wrapped up in style at Memphis Motorsports Park this past weekend with some of the best racing of the season in a number of classes in the Nitto Tire NMCA World Finals.

In Scorpion Performance Pro Street Mark Micke punctuated his first series championship with a final round win over Chris Rini while Dan Millen took out newly-crowned Nitto Tire Super Street 10.5 W champ Dan Millen. In ARP Nostalgia Pro Street, 2008 champion, Jim Widener grabbed his second win of the season after beating Joe Bucaro on a holeshot.

Cameron Coble and Danny Shemwell dueled it out for the Vortech Xtreme Street title, taking their championship fight to the final where Coble slammed the door on last year’s champion to take this years title. Mike DeMayo and Andy Schmidt’s battle for Comp Cams Pro Stock supremacy ended after Schmidt lost on a holeshot to Skip Baskin in the second round as DeMayo went on to win the event over Baskin.

In Car Craft Street Race John Macaluso ousted first time finalist Heath Shemwell to add yet another win to his championship season while Don Baskin grabbed his second win of the year after beating Jeff Swanson in BFGoodrich Tires Mean Street.

In Tremec True Street Jeff Knox became the first driver in the class to run in the seven-second zone as he ran a 7.98, 8.00 and 7.99 to claim the King of Tennessee title over 100 other drivers.

Veteran, Joe Ewing took out Ava Thompson in the final of Hamburgers Nostalgia Super Stock while Andy Warren got his first win of the season when he beat Kenny VanZill in the final of OPG Nostalgia Muscle Car. After six years of racing in Superchips Open Comp Frankie Radake finally got his first win after beating a redlighting William Tartavoulle. In Eaton-Posi Late Model EFI Doug Winters grabbed the win over John McPartlin, securing the 2008 class title.

Also contested in Memphis was the second annual GM Performance Parts LSx Shootout which featured the quickest and fastest LSx-powered cars in the country. In Drag Radial Steven Fereday took out defending champion Tom Kempf in a 7.58 to 7.60 race while Joe Huneycutt beat John Fowler for the All Motor crown. In the GMPP Index Showdown, Rob Farley beat Cliff LeBlanc while Jimmy Young took out Toby Self to win the GMPP Truck and SUV title.