Auto Club NHRA Finals Comp winner Doug Lambeck
Following his victory in Comp, Doug Lambeck now has 15 national event titles to his credit, and six of them have come in Pomona. Lambeck drove his D/SMA Pontiac to a (-.606) 8.324 in the final to stop 100-time national event winner David Rampy, who closed out his Hall of Fame career with a (-.545) 7.205. Rampy has announced that the Pomona race was his final event as a touring NHRA Sportsman driver. As for Lambeck, he finished the season with national event wins in Las Vegas and Pomona, in addition to three runner-up finishes.