When you’re the all-time Top Fuel winner and a seven-time series champion, chances are you’re going to bring out the best in your competition. But, for Tony Schumacher, driver of the U.S. Army Top Fuel dragster, the level of the challenge might be close to bordering on unreasonable.

Schumacher scored his fourth career NHRA Gatornationals title by stopping teammate Antron Brown.

“I go out in the first event of the season – [lose in a] tie race [with Larry Dixon] – then we go into the second race and [Steve Torrence] runs his quickest ever,” Schumacher explained. “If you look back into the books our team is responsible for all of maybe the lesser budget teams running their best ET’s.

“[Today] Terry McMillen runs a 3.86 [in the second round]. We do not stage our car and think it is an easy run. These guys are good. When they come up and the car isn’t going down the track, they try things. They turn things here and there and it sticks when you have a great race track like this. Unfortunately you get some good side-by-sides.”

Wilkerson reunited with his “old girl” and all is good in his world.

Wilkerson’s “old girl” is the Springfield, Ill.-based Funny car driver’s chassis that he ran in 2008, the same year he finished second in the championship standings on the strength of six wins in seven final rounds.

Wilkerson and his reliable chassis certainly had a certain kind of magic at the NHRA Gatornationals, the third race on the 2010 NHRA Full Throttle season. He stopped teammate Bob Tasca III in the final round with his second quickest run of the weekend, a 4.097 at 303.78 miles per hour.

He believes he and the broken-in race car had a measure of mojo throughout race day.

Canadian flags waved in the grandstands at historic Gainesville Raceway Sunday as Manitoba’s Kenny Lang made drag racing history as the first to win a Wally in the NHRA Get Screened America Pro Mod Series.

Lang became the first winner in NHRA’s newest national touring series as he drove his green 1953 Corvette to victory over Sweden’s Michael Gullqvist, who drove the ProCareRX 1968 Camaro owned by series supporter Roger Burgess.

“This is a great event and I am thrilled to win it,” said Lang who qualified sixth and defeated a tough group of drivers in earlier rounds including JEGS.com’s Troy Coughlin, In-N-Out Burger ’63 Corvette driver Melanie Troxel and Qatar’s Khalid Balooshi.

Tony Schumacher raced to his first victory of the season and in the process moved into the NHRA Full Throttle Series points lead Sunday at the Tire Kingdom NHRA Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway.

Tim Wilkerson, Jason Line and Eddie Krawiec also were winners in their respective categories at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series event.

Schumacher earned his fourth Gatornationals win and 62nd of his career by powering his U.S. Army dragster to a performance of 3.797 seconds at 322.04 mph while teammate Antron Brown’s Matco Tools dragster lost traction in the runner-up effort.

The seven-time Top Fuel world champ beat Terry McMillen, Doug Foley and rival Larry Dixon to advance to the final round.

Final round-by-round results from the 41st annual NHRA Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway, the third of 23 events in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series:

Point standings (top 10) for NHRA professional categories following the 41st annual NHRA Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway, the third of 23 events in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series -

Sunday's final results from the 41st annual NHRA Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway. The race is the third of 23 in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series:

The atmosphere has changed greatly in the last nine years for the Pro Modified division at Gainesville Raceway in Gainesville,Fla. In 2001, the NHRA invited 24 of the leading Pro Modified teams to participate in an exhibition event aimed at kicking off a five-race special tour showcasing a class of cars which up until then had been absent from NHRA events.

Friday morning six of the leading drivers in the Get Screened America Pro Modified series participated in the NHRA’s first official press conference since recognizing the class as an official professional division.

Danny Rowe, who participated in two of the first five 2001 events, joined series sponsor Roger Burgess, Raymond Commisso, Mike Knowles, Jay Payne and Melanie Troxel in the media gathering.

Antron Brown spoke to the media for the first time on Friday at the NHRA Gatornationals regarding his crash two weeks ago at the Firebird Raceway located outside of Phoenix, Az.

Brown, an eight time winner since joining the Top Fuel ranks in 2008, was for the most part uninjured in the accident. However, a wheel came off of his Matco Tools dragster and eventually made its way into the pits, striking and killing a spectator.

Brown’s accident was his first in twelve years of professional drag racing. In the days following the accident he struggled with the fact his accident had taken the life of a spectator. Seeing his family share in the pain only compounded the wound.