While many of their counterparts were running to the quarter-mile in Bakersfield, a fair share of Pro Stock drivers participating in the Nitro Spring Training session at Wild Horse Motorsports Park were only running to the 1,000-foot mark. 

Dallas Glenn usually runs to the 1,000-foot mark in his test sessions, so the shortened distance wasn't anything out of the ordinary.  

"I've done testing before, so that's just kind of what we usually do for testing," Glenn explained. "Every now and then, we'll go a little bit farther, but the track prep was set up for Top Fuel in the last week, so a thousand feet was just fine with me. Going to the quarter-mile was starting to get a little questionable, so it's totally fine. I mean, we're in high gear anyway. And that last 320 feet is just wear and tear on parts that we didn't need."

Rodger Brogdon made all of his testing runs in one day, last Thursday in Phoenix. He gladly returned to the quarter-mile in Pomona. 

"We made six or six runs on Thursday," Brogdon said. "Thousand foot wasn't too good for me. And 1,005 feet was dangerous. I ran mine a little bit deep one time, and I went from the left lane to the right.

Glenn might be accustomed to running to the nitro finish line but he, just like Brogdon, have zero interest in making this shortened distance the norm. It didn't mean the experience didn't pique his interest. 

"I was asking some of the guys here. I was like, 'Wonder how fast we could get them if we had to swap to a thousand?" Glenn pondered. "The whole gear ratio and everything would change. We'd be changing a lot of different stuff on the car to get it to the 10 five rev limiter quicker and everything. So I was curious at how fast, but I think we could pick up a few hundredths, but I don't think we'd pick up that much. It's still a quarter-mile. That last 320 feet, even though it's a lot of wear and tear, it is a lot of fun."