Congratulations to driver, Roger Bateman from Calgary, Alberta, and owner, Brian Friesen from Winnipeg, Manitoba, and his entire Alcohol Funny car team for winning the Las Vegas Divisional this past weekend. They will be in Pomona this weekend with the nobelsmile.com Top Alcohol Funny Car.

Roger qualified 4th in the quickest-ever TA/FC divisional race field then defeated Jay Payne in round one, Steve Harker of Gainesville, Ga., in the semis and, in the final, Bateman beat Clint Thompson of Klamath Falls, Ore. Bateman ran 5.828 seconds at 249.35 mph to Thompson's 8.591-second pass at 109.40 mph.

And now he runner-ups in Pomona. Hopefully, that'll be enough to put him into the Top 10. Way to go Roger and team!