A spectacular season of racing in the Get Screened America Pro Mod Challenge presented by ProCare RX ended Sunday with Jay Payne winning the final event of the 2009 season at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The event, the 10th of 10 on the 2009 NHRA Pro Mod calendar, put the finishing touches on a record-setting season that saw the all-time Pro Mod record book undergo a complete re-write.

Payne ended the season, the ninth year of NHRA Pro Mod competition, with a final-round win over Brad Personett, who red-lighted after a lengthy burn-down. It was Payne's second straight win in the series, coming three weeks after his  victory at the super-quick Richmond event.

The Pro Mod Challenge's 2009 season championship was also determined at the NHRA Las Vegas Nationals, with Burton Auxier, driving one of the Al-Anabi nitrous-oxide-boosted entries, holding off R2B2 Racing's Roger Burgess for the title. With both drivers losing in successive pairs in the quarterfinals, Auxier was able to make his incoming points lead hold up, eventually finishing with a 662-631 points advantage. With his successive event wins, Payne shot all the way up to third place in the final standings, finishing with 626 points.

Payne qualified No. 2 in Las Vegas with a 5.971 best, then opened Sunday's eliminations with a win over Tim Tindle, who red-lighted. He followed up with a 6.08 to 6.04 holeshot win over Chip King in the quarterfinals, and then outran Dennis Radford in the semifinals, 6.04 to 6.14, to set up the final-round showdown against Personett.

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