Neither Schumacher or Bernstein had ever won here before. In 2003, Bernstein's dragster went over the wall in a crash that sidelined him for the rest of the season.

Schumacher got out of the gate first and he needed that advantage to get the holeshot win because Bernstein was quicker on the track. Both drivers ran cleanly down the track under full power. Tony Schumacher's incremental margins: 60ft(0.050), 330 ft(0.041), 660ft(0.025), 1,000ft(0.019). MOV: 0.0202 seconds (approximately 10 feet).