PGA superstar Tiger Woods had better count his lucky stars that Pro Stock legend Bob Glidden didn’t put all of his efforts into being a professional golfer. That’s because now he’d have to deal with Billy Glidden, who is more of a chip off of the old block than the competition can handle.

The second generation Glidden, the defending Extreme 10.5 world champion extended his streak of consecutive ADRL round wins to 19 (including the championship-determining Battle of the Belts last year) with a victory at the recently completed Hardees Georgia Drags in Valdosta, Ga.

He now holds a 26 – 2 round win record in ADRL competition. Of those two losses, Glidden only concedes one and that was at the ADRL Ohio Drags when he lost in the finals. The other was when he failed to participate in the arm-drop drags conclusion of the event in Martin, Mich.
He’s No Tiger, But He Sure Has One in the Tank …

PGA superstar Tiger Woods had better count his lucky stars that Pro Stock legend Bob Glidden didn’t put all of his efforts into being a professional golfer. That’s because now he’d have to deal with Billy Glidden, who is more of a chip off of the old block than the competition can handle.

The second generation Glidden, the defending Extreme 10.5 world champion extended his streak of consecutive ADRL round wins to 19 (including the championship-determining Battle of the Belts last year) with a victory at the recently completed Hardees Georgia Drags in Valdosta, Ga.

He now holds a 26 – 2 round win record in ADRL competition. Of those two losses, Glidden only concedes one and that was at the ADRL Ohio Drags when he lost in the finals. The other was when he failed to participate in the arm-drop drags conclusion of the event in Martin, Mich.

Much to the chagrin of the competition, Glidden excelled in Valdosta even when he wasn’t at his strongest.

“We were actually trying some new stuff,” Glidden admitted. “We had some new parts in the car. We made the first test run on Friday and it showed promise and I stuck with it. It just changed on me and I had no tuning window for the rounds we needed so I put the old stuff back in it. Luckily it repeated, thank goodness.”

After qualifying No. 2 with a 4.111, Glidden never blazed in qualifying and got off to a tough start by nearly losing an obviously off-pace 4.492 to 4.493 in the first round against H.T. Wilson.

That opening round miscue was as close as the competition would get throughout the night.

Glidden then upped the ante, even though it was still off the pace with a 4.325 to stop Todd Moyer. He returned to his familiar antics with a record eclipsing 4.083 (Steve Kirk Jr.) and in the final, a 4.091 to defeat Spiro Pappas.

Glidden admits that he made a few withdrawals from the luck bank over the course of the weekend and no matter how much his car may dominate, each and every round gets his attention.

Spiro Pappas had Glidden’s attention headed into the final round.

“Guys like this come in here and start beating up on us,” Glidden admitted.

Headed into the final round, Glidden elected to leave well enough alone and hope that it was enough to overtake a surging Pappas.

“We didn’t change a thing,” Glidden admitted. “I got pretty gun shy because of the first two runs. I just made it a little soft in order to keep it driver friendly and make it down the track.”

For the record, Glidden’s driver friendly remark doesn’t equate to opponent friendly as he remains undefeated in ADRL Extreme 10.5 final round competition. He’s now won six of the eight races he’s entered.

 

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