For the last three years, Allen Johnson has been stellar in the Pro Stock Class at the NHRA Mopar Mile-High Nationals.

Sunday was no different.

Johnson won his second title in three years at Bandimere, beating Jason Line in the finals with a holeshot.

Johnson ran a 7.004-second time, compared to Line's 7.001-second effort. Johnson won by virtue of his 0.29 reaction time, while Line had a 0.50 reaction time.

For the last three years, Allen Johnson has been stellar in the Pro Stock Class at the NHRA Mopar Mile-High Nationals.

Sunday was no different.

Johnson won his second title in three years at Bandimere, beating Jason Line in the finals with a holeshot.

Johnson ran a 7.004-second time, compared to Line's 7.001-second effort. Johnson won by virtue of his 0.29 reaction time, while Line had a 0.50 reaction time.

"I love Denver," said Johnson, who drives a Mopar/J&J Racing Dodge Stratus. "We got a combination here that's really hard to beat. We test our butts off here for Mother Mopar so we can come up here and do good. It just feels so awesome to come up here and develop a plan and work it and succeed at it. Plus, to be driving well and get the win on a holeshot feels very good."

Johnson and Line also met in the finals at Gainesville, and Line won by a holeshot. Line won the previous national event at Norwalk (Ohio).

Johnson said that his team came up to Bandimere the week before the Mile-High Nationals and made 15 to 16 testing runs.

"Through all the testing and hard work, we've found a combination that works and we've stuck with that and developed it and got better at," Johnson said. "This venue is so different that you have to test here a lot. It looked like Mike (Edwards) sort of found it this year to and we're probably lucky that he got beat early because he would've been a very tough opponent in the finals."

Edwards was eliminated when he registered a redlight against Jeg Coughlin Jr.

"Today, we knew we could out run everybody by two or three hundreds, so we brought the conservative set-up to race day and stuck with it all day," Johnson said. 

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