Wednesday, Sept 9th, 2009

For the past several years when Don & Bunny Henderson rolled into Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the Annual Labor Day race that ran PSCA cars at night and Jr's during the day. Winning the Jr Dragster class that daughter Meaghan competed in was always one of their dreams.. But this time was a little different, yes the she still ran the Jr. during the day, but at night she rolled out the Vogue Marine Center Boat & RV Storage 7-sec Dragster powered by a Fauset Racing Engine to compete in the Calvert Racing Bracket-1 class!!!

After 2 long hot days of racing, Sunday night PSCA Eliminations was a refreshing break as the temps dropped to a comfortable level. In round one, Meaghan lost to LVMS regular Scott Horsley in his familiar '55 Chevy in a double breakout. Lucky for the young Henderson, the PSCA has 1^st round loser buybacks, so for a mere $20 Meaghan was back in the game. It was now around 9pm and the Henderson family has been racing since 8am but you couldn't tell as they started to find their grove and march through the competitors. 2^nd round victim was a past PSCA event winner Andy Pressimore, 3^rd round she beat Ken Spears and ran an almost perfect pass (5.20 light and 7.729 on a 7.72 dial) Round 4 she beat a past PSCA Bracket-1 winner Josh Edwards with a 7.713 on a 7.71 dial and forced Edwards to break out by 7-thousandths. The Semi-Finals was Meaghan's easiest run as Robert Broguiere had starting line issues and the car simply did not move..

In the Finals, "The Pizza Man" Carl Cannavo and his "Blazin' Bell Tech" sponsored Dragster was the only one left in Meaghan's way and her 1^st PSCA victory. Henderson won earlier this year in her Jr. Dragster, but a win in her big car would be a dream come true!!! As the lights dropped, she left Carl at the line with her 5.20 R/T to his 5.90 and that's all Meaghan needed to notch her 1^st win and become PSCA's youngest winner at just barely 17 years-old.

Meaghan would like to thank her family especially dad and crew chief Don, mom Bunny, Chris Blair and the staff at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Vogue Marine Center Boat & RV Storage, Fauset Racing Engines and the PSCA for a very memorable Labor Day Weekend..