Perfection is something Al-Anabi Racing driver Larry Dixon always strives for, however his latest victory has him shaking his head in disbelief.

Seven times he’s reached the Top Fuel final round of a 2010 NHRA Full Throttle Championship Drag Racing event. Seven times he’s walked away with the trophy.

This one almost got away from him as opponent Antron Brown challenged him all the way to the finish line, losing by .0002, a mere foot at 300 miles per hour.

“I feel fortunate, said Dixon, who leads second place point earner Tony Schumacher by 176 points. “A lot of tight races. That one right there was tight. Truth, you could race that one again and get a different outcome.

Perfection is something Al-Anabi Racing driver Larry Dixon always strives for, however his latest victory has him shaking his head in disbelief.

Seven times he’s reached the Top Fuel final round of a 2010 NHRA Full Throttle Championship Drag Racing event. Seven times he’s walked away with the trophy.

This one almost got away from him as opponent Antron Brown challenged him all the way to the finish line, losing by .0002, a mere foot at 300 miles per hour.

“I feel fortunate, said Dixon, who leads second place point earner Tony Schumacher by 176 points. “A lot of tight races. That one right there was tight. Truth, you could race that one again and get a different outcome.

“It was just hurry up, hurry up all day. It was kind of neat. Then you rolled to the final thinking we're doing alright and it's hey, 'suit up'. I'm like what about bikes and cars and Funny Cars. 'Don't matter, get in your car.' It's was a little bit different. Obviously they needed to do that. We didn't even get off the top end of the track before it started raining.

“I heard Antron at the start and saw him for a bit and then he kinda faded. I kept looking. I was looking for the Summit win light and it came on in our lane. It was just a great drag race. It's nice to be on the right side of a drag race.”

Being on the right side of this drag race enabled Dixon to claim his 55th win in 99 final round appearances. Just making his way to the final, tied Dixon with Joe Amato for second on the all-time final round list in Top Fuel, just one behind Tony Schumacher.

Any other driver, working through a fast-paced day, 65-minute turnarounds to avoid bad weather, might have been affected. At this point in his career, Dixon is anything but your typical nitro racer.

“You just do the best you can with the adversity, whatever it is,” Dixon explained. “There again, I have [crew chief] Jason McCullough and Alan Johnson in my lane looking and right before we fired the car up Alan made a last minute adjustment. I don't know if it was to speed it up or slow it down but it was the right one and just enough.”

While admitting he was rushed, Dixon firmly stated he was never shaken from his routine throughout the hectic day. The opponent in the other lane becomes an afterthought once the parachutes blossom.

“You get in such a routine,” he said. “I race Antron Brown the way I race Troy Buff, or anybody else; you just have to go up there and do your thing. It's about consistency; everything, you just try to repeat. Whether they're good or bad, you just do everything exactly the same.”

Suddenly the stinging first round loss in Bristol, on Father’s Day, was a race in the past. It could have been a million years ago to the focused Dixon.

“You know it's going to happen,” Dixon said of drag racing’s successes and failures. “It's just the law of averages. You hope you have more peaks and valleys. Out of this four-race swing, to have three wins out of four, that's huge. It's the only way you can stay ahead in the points. Nobody can catch you if you're winning rounds. We have three, four more races, before the Countdown starts, and we'll go from there.”

And if you think he’s backing off with a No. 1 seed all but secured, think again.

“You look back on last year, if we'd gone in number one seed instead of two, that would have been 30 more points and I could have used 30 points,” Dixon pointed out. “If you can get it great, but it's still not going to be easy. We'll just go up there, celebrate tonight and tomorrow and then start getting ready for Seattle.”