Last year’s Las Vegas Speed Spectacular funny car winner Nathan Bugg drove his “Lil Nate” Plymouth Barracuda to a best of 6.628/216.45 mph in the heat of the day.  (Darr Hawthorne photo)

Dennis LaCharite drove his beautiful “Back in Black” ’69 GTO nitro Funny Car to the second quickest 6.323/222.14 mph pass.  The team was testing with the help of fuel specialist Spike Gore. (Tim Marshall photo)

In the Fuel Altered match, Vince Generalao drove the “Nanook” AA/FA to a win over Craig Michael in his “Vegas Heat” bantam roadster.  (Tim Marshall photo)