CAYUGA, Ontario — Terry McMillen is getting the hang of this whole Nitro thing. After driving in the Alcohol Funny Car ranks for years without finding the winner’s circle, McMillen won his second IHRA Knoll Gas Nitro Jam national event of the season, taking the Top Fuel class with a final round win over national points leader T.J. Zizzo Sept. 10 during the Canadian Nationals presented by PartSource.
McMillen posted a 3.106 elapsed time at 270.16 mph to knock off Zizzo, who carded a 3.313, 246.03.
The race was contested on an eighth-mile format due to weather conditions and track concerns. Moisture was seeping through the track near the guard walls and forced IHRA officials to shorten the race.
Creasy can pretty much start his world championship victory lap the rest of the season. Creasy had a hammerlock on the Knoll Gas Torco Racing Fuels Pro Nitro Funny Car points chase heading into the IHRA Canadian Nationals, and by defeating Mitch King in the final at Toronto Motorsports Park, he padded that lead even more.
King crossed the finish line first but was disqualified for crossing the center line.
 John Russo captured his first IHRA win when he knocked off Carl Spiering in the Torco’s CompetitionPlus.com Pro Modified final. Russo clocked a 3.962 at 189.90 mph to defeat Spiering, who could not gain traction in the other lane. Spiering shook his way to a 6.277.
Former Pro Stock world champion John Nobile defeating defending world champion Pete Berner in the final round to win his first race of the season.
Nobile used a 4.126 to Berner’s better 4.117 in a holeshot victory.
Nobile had him off the line, 0.025 to 0.042.
Terry Munroe claimed his third Ironman of the season by knocking off Paul Noakes in the Alcohol Funny Car final.