Extreme Pro Stock racer Brian Gahm has learned to be flexible and resourceful throughout his championship career. In winning his second ADRL event of the season, the Lucasville, Ohio, driver had no other choice but to prepare for two equally important runs on Friday in Martin.

On one run, Gahm had to gain a solid berth in the race at hand, the ADRL Summer Drags, and complete unfinished business from the ADRL Memphis Drags.

“It didn’t mess with me but then again you have, no real choice, you just have to load it up,” Gahm explained. “If you made a good run, you got in and you have two more on Saturday. We did a good job of getting down the track.”

Extreme Pro Stock racer Brian Gahm has learned to be flexible and resourceful throughout his championship career. In winning his second ADRL event of the season, the Lucasville, Ohio, driver had no other choice but to prepare for two equally important runs on Friday in Martin.

On one run, Gahm had to gain a solid berth in the race at hand, the ADRL Summer Drags, and complete unfinished business from the ADRL Memphis Drags.

“It didn’t mess with me but then again you have, no real choice, you just have to load it up,” Gahm explained. “If you made a good run, you got in and you have two more on Saturday. We did a good job of getting down the track.”

Indeed Gahm did it, not only winning the rain-delayed event at the expense of Montecalvo, but ascended to the top of the qualifying list at the expense of the entire field.

Gahm had predicted the car would run a 4.10 in winning and he couldn’t have been more on the money. He knew he needed that kind of preciseness if he hoped to beat Montecalvo.

“I figured exactly what we got,” Gahm said. “Monte is tough and I knew we were going to have a good drag race. We had to wait so long [to run the finals] that I didn’t know how much the weather was going to affect us.

“We had to change transmission ratios and adapt to it, I figured we could run another 4.10 and that’s what it did. I was hoping to run 4.09, but we could have run a 4.12 … as long as we won.”   

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