DIXON BLASTS TO A 3.844 TO EARN TOP QUALIFYING SPOT
![Larry Dixon picked up the win last week at Topeka and heads to Chicago sitting just inside the top-5 in points for the 2009 NHRA Full Throttle Top Fuel championship. (Photo courtesy of NHRA) (The Spokesman-Review)](https://thumb.spokesman.com/jF7lPxXJwfH7O_QTtN4-mOUgAac=/810x0/media.spokesman.com/photos/2009/06/03/Larry_Dixon_Action1.jpg)
Two-time champion Larry Dixon blew away the Top Fuel field Saturday to earn the No. 1 quaifying position for Sunday’s NHRA Carolinas Nationals, the first race in NHRA’s six-race playoff, the Countdown to 1.