Tony Schumacher wins yet again and sets the single-season record for victories in NHRA’s Top Fuel category by scoring his 10th win of the year. Schumacher drives his U.S. Army dragster past the Lucas Oil dragster piloted by rookie Morgan Lucas in the final round. It is Morgan’s second consecutive runner-up finish.

Doug Kalitta earned his 7th No. 1 qualifying award of the 2004 season when he clocks a 4.472 seconds at 332.02 mph in the Mac Tools dragster which is both low ET and top speed. Kalitta however loses out in round two when he smokes his tires racing Morgan Lucas.

Top Fuel racing includes an inspiring effort from Northern California’s David Baca who goes to the “final four” in the class driving his un-sponsored machine. Baca qualified 3rd with a career best 4.487 secs.

TF racing at Pomona produces the 2nd quickest 16-car field in history with the 4.640 secs bump just missing the 4.639 secs mark set at this event last year.

Perennial Funny Car champion John Force, who clinched an unprecedented 13th NHRA POWERade world championship two weeks earlier in Las Vegas, earns a record 114th career victory by defeating the quickest assembly of Funny Cars in drag racing history -- 4.856 secs bump.

Force drives his Castrol GTX Start Up Ford Mustang to low ET of the meet in qualifying at 4.698 secs, and defeats Del Worsham’s Checker Schuck’s Kragen Chevy Monte Carlo in the final round.

Force is joined in the winner’s circle by his 21-year-old daughter Ashley, who wheeled her Mattel Toy Store dragster to the win in Top Alcohol category. That marked the first time in NHRA history that a father and daughter earned wins at the same event.

Worsham’s runner-up finish is significant as it gave his team second place in final NHRA POWERade FC points over Gary Scelzi who finished third. Scelzi lost out to Force in the semi-final round.

Force’s track record time of 4.698 seconds was the 124th pole of his career and made Pomona Raceway only the second drag strip on the circuit, along with Chicago’s Route 66 Raceway, to feature a 4.6 seconds FC runs. Force had two 4.6’s at Route 66 last September.

Gary Densham drove the AAA Auto Club Ford Mustang to a track record speed of 329.75 mph and a semi-final round finish in his last appearance as a driver for John Force. Densham will race with his own team in 2005.

Force’s other team driver Eric Medlen experiences a major league top end fire during the final qualifying session on Saturday night. Medlen, driving the Castrol Syntec Ford rides out the flaming inferno and is not injured. Repairs are made for Sunday, but Eric loses out to Force in round two -- 4.764 secs to 4.883 secs.

Greg Anderson, capped off the greatest single-season performance by a Pro driver in NHRA history by claiming his 15th victory. Anderson defeated his protégé Jason Line in the final round in a battle between Ken Black-owned Pontiac Grand Ams. Anderson drove his Summit Racing sponsored machine to a final round 6.722 secs at 205.35 mph after earlier setting low ET of the meet at 6.704 secs.

By winning, Anderson also set or extended several other major NHRA single-season records, including: most final round appearances (19); most elimination round wins (76); most No. 1 qualifying positions (16); and largest margin of victory for a POWERade championship (742 points).

Larry Morgan set top speed in Pro Stock driving his Mopar Dodge Stratus R/T to a speed of 206.16 mph.

PS class icon Warren Johnson announces at Pomona that the upcoming 2005 racing season will be his last as a driver. Johnson was a DNQ at the AAA Auto Club Finals event.

In Pro Stock Bike Angelle Savoie raced to her fourth victory of the season on her U.S. Army Suzuki, defeating her teammate Antron Brown, in the final. With the victory, Savoie finished in second place in the championship points chase -- 15 points in front of Brown who finished third.

Andrew Hines at age 21, became the youngest NHRA POWERade Series world champion in history. Hines clinched the ’04 title when he qualified 12th for the field on his Screamin’ Eagle/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson. It was the first NHRA Pro Stock Bike world championship title for Harley-Davidson.

Chip Ellis powered the George Bryce G-Squared/S&S Buell to a track record time of 7.024 secs during qualifying to earn the pole in PS. Ellis went to the semi-final round before losing out to Savoie, 7.081 secs to 7.129 secs.

PS racer Shawn Gann was disqualified from the event by NHRA Tech officials due to a blatant fuel violation.

Mitch Myers clinched the 2004 Top Alcohol Dragster title at Pomona with a record-setting runner-up performance. Myers recorded the two quickest runs in class history, a 5.118 secs qualifier followed by a 5.109 secs run in eliminations. The 5.109 secs is a new NHRA national ET record. Myers however lost out in the event final round when Ashley Force beat him on a holeshot, 5.324 secs 270.21 mph to 5.287 secs 262.95 mph. Myers also had top speed of the meet at 278.23 mph in earlier action.

California’s Jay Payne dominates TAFC class action. Payne, driving the Valvoline Chevy Camaro, sets both low ET (5.557 secs) and top speed (258.62-mph) while enroute to victory lane. His final round 5.615 secs tops Oregon’s Brian Hough who runs a losing 5.647 secs.

The event’s Competition eliminator championship final round between Tony Stephenson and Steve Wilmoth is in fact run off twice after a timing system malfunction occurs. Stephenson, driving C/EA Chevy Cavalier wins both times.

The Pomona event includes the Summit Racing National ET finals. Wins go to Mark Griffith (Super Pro), Kelly King (Pro), Kevin Hale (Sportsman) and Dave Hill (Bike/Sled).

NHRA’s 40th Anniversary Auto Club Finals features another popular “cackle fest” with some 20+ vintage machines being lined up and started simultaneously on Sunday directly in front of the appreciative overflowing crowd.