Steady rain throughout the morning and dew during the late evening hours made for a crazy afternoon and left plenty of racing still on the plate after two days of racing at the IHRA World Finals Saturday at Rockingham Dragway. Kenny Lang topped Pro Modified after making a single pass on Friday. With the chart topping lap Lang was able to seal the championship.

“It is nice obviously to lock up the championship. We obviously wanted to come here and make sure we were in good shape to do it and qualify the car and if we did that then we knew we had it. When we made that pass I knew it was finally ours,” Lang said. “Yesterday afternoon was a little tough for a lot of guys getting down the track, but we got down no problem. I know we have a lot of room to play with it the rest of the weekend.”

In the single round of qualifying on Friday Pro Modified point leader Kenny Lang (Grande Pointe, Manitoba) showed once again why he is the class of the field with a chart topping 6.032 second lap at 236.51 miles per hour.

Thanks to that run Lang officially clinched his second consecutive Pro Modified World Championship.

“It is good to get two back-to-back and do something that is so rare,” Lang said. “It is nice to get that off my head so I don’t have to worry about that the rest of the weekend. Now we can just go out there and do our job and that is win the race.”

Lang will be looking for his fourth straight win and ninth consecutive final round on Sunday.