The action was fast, furious and constant at Summit Motorsports Park in the ADRL Ohio Drags all day Friday.

With fans getting a 2-fer deal - qualifying for the Ohio Drags and elimination rounds for the rain delayed DragStock VII from Rockingham Dragway – there was barely a moment of silence in the Ohio countryside.

At the end of the evening, Ty Tutterrow, Cary Goforth, Spiro Pappas, Dough Riesterer and Todd Tutterow all spent time celebrating in the winner's circle.

The most exciting of the five final round races involved Goforth and Cale Aronson in Extreme Pro Stock and Ashley Owens and Kim Morrell in Pro Extreme Motorcycle.

The action was fast, furious and constant at Summit Motorsports Park in the ADRL Ohio Drags all day Friday.

With fans getting a 2-fer deal - qualifying for the Ohio Drags and elimination rounds for the rain delayed DragStock VII from Rockingham Dragway – there was barely a moment of silence in the Ohio countryside.

At the end of the evening, Ty Tutterrow, Cary Goforth, Spiro Pappas, Dough Riesterer and Todd Tutterow all spent time celebrating in the winner's circle.

The most exciting of the five pro final round races involved Goforth and Cale Aronson in Extreme Pro Stock and Ashley Owens and Kim Morrell in Pro Extreme Motorcycle.

EXTREME PRO STOCK

Goforth stopped the clocks at 4.108 seconds, but beat Aronson, 4.098, on a holeshot. Goforth was off the line in a rubber burning .009 seconds to Aronson's respectable .032.

“In my mind, and racers will tell you a lot of excuses, we should have had two or three more wins than we've had,” said Goforth. “We've had a lot of momentum going and then the weather cancelled races. They were momentum killers. In Pro Stock when you are searching for thousands of seconds it gives everybody time to go home and work on their stuff.

“From the first run out of the gate we ran three 4.11's in a row. That is a tribute to Chris Bell, my crew chief. We fell out of the trailer running fast.”

With the car running fast, Goforth only needed to work on his reaction times to take the win; and improve he did.

Goforth's reaction times improved with each run - .049, .047, .015 and the final .009.

PRO EXTREME MOTORCYCLE

Ashley Owens, winner of all but one event this season, beat Kim Morrell to the lights even though he spotted her almost six hundredths of a second at a start - .082 to .024. Owens was fast down his lane outrunning Morrell 4.059 to 4.152 on his '07 Suzuki.

“Like normal, I guess,” said Owens. “It felt good. Everything went smooth this weekend.”

With the wind gusting to over 30 knots, Owens said it was never a problem.

“I didn't notice it. Some people notice it, but I didn't it. Kansas was a lot worse.”

Owens, who has dominated the division all season long, feels his chances of doubling up in Norwalk at quite good, saying, “The motor just seems real happy. We're just making laps right now; changing little things.”

Having dominated the field all year, Owens would love to find the magical sub four second run.

“It may not over come. You can hit a wall. If we get the right track conditions it might happen.”

EXTREME 10.5

The Extreme 10.5 match up had Brad Brand with high hopes of besting Spiro Pappas, however a near run in with the center line killed Brand's chances as Pappas ran straight down the left lane at 4.159 seconds, 172.10 mph. Brand was way out in front after beating Pappas off the line, .030 to .154, when he was forced to lift to keep the car from crossing the lane. As Brand slowed Pappas roared on by for the win.

“We are on the right track, finally,” proclaimed Pappas following the win “We finally went out testing for a few days and we're back to where we need to be. We found out we had a lot more power than we thought and our tune-up was off.

“It's been a tough year, but you get what you put into it. We didn't put much into it and that's what we got out of it,” admitted Pappas. “We finally got off our butts and started testing a couple weeks ago. We had two test sessions and learned a lot about the car.

“I think the hot weather got a little bit lazy this summer and the championship from last year, I think we took it for granted.”

Pappas actually enjoys the doubled up events because it keeps him focused throughout the weekend.

PRO NITROUS

The Pro Nitrous final was a near repeat of the Extreme 10.5 performance with winner Doug Riesterer late off the starting line, but first to the finish, as Steve Allen blew off the tires just past the 60 foot mark. Riesterer's .098 was incredibly slow in comparison to Allen's .012 light. Allen never recovered, leaving Riesterer unchallenged.

“We came out here hoping to go a few rounds and get into the Battle of the Belts,” admitted Riesterer. We never expected this in a million years. I won and was stunned. It is a dream to win Rockingham; I would have loved to have won it there but this will do.

“Hopefully, we'll do good tomorrow. We did way more that we'd hope to today, we'll have to see where the points fall tomorrow.”

Riesterer admitted the night was going to stretch into the early morning for himself, because, “the crew's going to the motel and the driver's working on the car.”

PRO EXTREME

After watching his young son win in the Junior Dragster final, it was up to Todd Tutterow to pull off the first family double. Tutterow and Joshua Hernandez left the line with Hernandez holding a slight edge, .050 to Tutterow's .063. Hernandez quickly struck the tires and it was all Tutterow as Hernandez clocked a coasting  9.108 second pass to Tutterow's 3.852 at 204.14 mph.

“This is wonderful,” said Tutterow, a grin on his face. “We've never won, both of us together. It's special when you have your family with you and you both get to go to the finals.”

Tutterow watched from a distance as his son rolled to his win and felt “I just knew I needed to do my job then.” Tutterow's wife, Denise works the line with their son's, Ty, junior dragster. They have a daughter who also drag races.

Tutterow wasn't the most dominate racer throughout the long day which started around noon and was still going strong at midnight.

“We made some good runs but we had some lucky runs, too,” admitted Tutterow. “The main thing was getting it down the racetrack. I knew the later it got the quicker it would get.”

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