This should be a close race since the two qualified just a few thousandths apart and it turned out as advertised. Castellana had a big holeshot and ran within a few thousandths of his qualifying time, but Smith improved just enough to run him down and then hold him off in the lights.

Von Smith's incremental margins (negative if behind): 60ft(-0.006), 330 ft(0.035), 660ft(0.030), 1,000ft(0.014). MOV: 0.0005 seconds (approximately 2 inches).