While Wiley cracked off an impressive 9.52 in the final, Matherly unleashed his quickest pass to date – a 9.432, which was only .001 off the quickest recorded pass in Real Street history – to take the win light and cap off a championship season.

Coming into the last race of the season, there were three racers who could walk away as the 2009 Eibach Springs Pure Street Champion. Mark Anderson took a step closer to the ring with a number-one qualifier at the end of Saturday, while Ryan Hecox had to pull his engine and Steve Gifford would still need to set a record. Hecox was up and running again in the morning and Gifford had the front half numbers to set the record but couldn’t put together a full pass.

With his win over Gifford in the second round, Hecox solidified his place as the 2009 Pure Street World Champion. In the final round Hecox faced Anderson, where Anderson got a small consolation when he defeated Hecox and won the race.

In ACT Factory Stock, Tommy Godfrey came into the race with the championship wrapped up, but was still shooting to be the first Factory Stock racer to break into the 10-second zone. He came mighty close in eliminations running a string of 11-ohs, and resetting the record at 11.038 seconds en route to the finals, where he met Matt Amrine. While Amrine piloted his “Stealth Fighter” to an 11.20 pass, Godfrey ran an 11.12 to take his sixth win of the season and his third consecutive Factory Stock title.

In ROUSH Modular Muscle, there was a four-way points battle that was whittled down to one when Reggie Burnette Jr. defeated Gary Parker to clinch the race and the 2009 championship.

Steeda Open Comp saw Wesley Dalrymple lock up the class championship in the third round and go on to defeat Brent Blacker for the win.

In Detroit Locker Truck and Lightning, Gerry VanVeen defeated Mike Motycka in the finals which cost Motycka the championship.

JDM Engineering Super Stang was locked up going into the Bowling Green race, but new champion Chris Parisi was strangely absent from the final round, where Paul Gamino and Don Justus faced off. In a close race, Gamino took the win light.