If you watched Friday's qualifying session, you saw Fast Jack Beckman's engine let go (it apparently was a piston failure). The crew immediately put on a new body and serviced the car, and Beckman went out and bumped Courtney Force out of the number one qualifying spot with a 4.025 at 319 mph. Saturday morning, they're getting the car ready to defend that top spot.

Vince Nobile's saluted to NHRA's long-time announcer, Bob Frey.

Mike Salinas sits on the bump spot in Top Fuel, but we were most impressed custom truck that pulls the team's hospitality trailer. The custom Pete has a detailed and chromed Cat engine, and more custom tricks and paint than most show cars.

The best part about attending an NHRA National Event is the ability to get up close and personal with cool race parts. These are all cylinder head/header sets getting ready for Johnny Gray's fuel digger. We want one to just hang on the wall of our living room.

Chris "The Greek" Karamesines is in his mid-80s and is still doing it Top Fuel style. He missed making the field though.

Antron Brown has a 65 point lead over Tony Schumacher, but had issues and qualified 10th to The Sarge's fourth. This could make for an interesting eliminations.

Ron Capps waited until the last qualifying round Saturday afternoon to pull out 4.007 at 319, one-thousandth of a second quicker than Cruz Pedregon.

Jason Line qualified on top of Pro Stock, with his teammate Greg Anderson (far lane) taking the number 3 spot, sandwiching Allen Johnson's Mopar in final qualifying.

Last year's number 3 points finisher Andrew Hines ran a 6.809 at 196 mph to take the top qualifier spot over last year's Pro Stock Motorcycle champ and current points leader Eddie Krawiec. Both are on Harley-Davidson V-Rods.