Jim Halsey considers himself a confident drag racer but up until the time he crossed the finish line ahead of Billy Harper, he didn’t concede the victory was his. The Street, Md.-based veteran, along with a handful of nitrous racers, had waited a long time for what transpired in the finals of the IHRA Texas Nationals, a nitrous winner and even better in an all-nitrous final round.

 

Jim Halsey scored the first Pro Modified victory for a nitrous car since the IHRA Motor City Nationals in July 2006. (Roger Richards)
 

The last time a pair of nitrous entries battled in a final round of a Pro Modified event was the 2006 IHRA Motor City Nationals in Milan, Michigan. Mike Castellana’s victory over Harold Martin also represented the last time a nitrous car had won an IHRA Pro Modified event.