Billy Glidden, driver of the Mickey Thompson Tires XTF Mustang has been knocking on the three second door all year without anyone answering. While he has broken the barrier in testing, those passes mean nothing when it comes to the record books.

Friday afternoon at Summit Racing Park during first round qualifying for the ADRL Ohio Drags Glidden got close at 4.026 seconds. One round later, in a mixture of qualifying and first round eliminations for the rain delayed Dragstock VII from Rockingham (NC) Glidden busted down the door with a 3.991 at 184.40 mph to dispatch Tony Wilson, despite being beat solidly at the tree, .012 to Glidden's .109.

Billy Glidden, driver of the Mickey Thompson Tires XTF Mustang has been knocking on the three second door all year without anyone answering. While he has broken the barrier in testing, those passes mean nothing when it comes to the record books.

Friday afternoon at Summit Racing Park during first round qualifying for the ADRL Ohio Drags Glidden got close at 4.026 seconds. One round later, in a mixture of qualifying and first round eliminations for the rain delayed Dragstock VII from Rockingham (NC) Glidden busted down the door with a 3.991 at 184.40 mph to dispatch Tony Wilson, despite being beat solidly at the tree, .012 to Glidden's .109.

“(The 3-second run)is a small sense of accomplishment and lets us know we’re doing better,” Glidden said. “The first two runs we had (Friday) are as good as we’ve ever had.

“I’m just trying to do better,” added Glidden. “We’ve made a lot of changes since Rockingham. We’ve been busy. We definitely don’t sit on our hands.”

Glidden is still a full tenth of a second slower than the quickest qualifier, Dan Millen, of Dearborn, Mi., and eight hundredths of a second slower than Chuck Ulsch.

Glidden uses his competition to measure his progress.

“All we can do is use the people in front of us as the bar and we’re closer to them now than we were at Rockingham,” said Glidden, who revealed he never would have broken the barrier at the Rock.

“The engine we had in Rockingham, we didn’t kill it, but we hurt it,” revealed Glidden. “We fixed that.”

The timing beams agree.

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