There’s no place like home and for veteran doorslammer racer Billy Glidden, the ADRL’s Extreme 10.5 class appears to be as good of a home as any.

The eldest son of Pro Stock legend Bob Glidden has driven his Pontiac Grand-Am to victory in two of the three ADRL events he’s competed in this year. He could easily have a clean sweep but withdrew from competition at the ADRL event in Martin, electing not to compete in the arm-drop competition.

“We’re certainly competitive that’s for sure,” Glidden said. “The car’s just working really well. We were just starting to figure this car out right when the plug was pulled on me [in NHRA Pro Stock]. Luckily, it has been an easy transition, as dumb as that could possibly sound. We put all of this stuff in it and obviously you make all your adjustments for the right heights and what have you. Just small four-link changes to try and compensate for what you’re doing and go. That’s the way it has been.”

Glidden began the season racing his Pontiac in the 500-inch NHRA Pro Stock ranks with the backing of tire manufacturer Mickey Thompson Tires. He was to assist the company in developing their large tire program. There’s no place like home and for veteran doorslammer racer Billy Glidden, the ADRL’s Extreme 10.5 class appears to be as good of a home as any.

The eldest son of Pro Stock legend Bob Glidden has driven his Pontiac Grand-Am to victory in two of the three ADRL events he’s competed in this year. He could easily have a clean sweep but withdrew from competition at the ADRL event in Martin, electing not to compete in the arm-drop competition.

“We’re certainly competitive that’s for sure,” Glidden said. “The car’s just working really well. We were just starting to figure this car out right when the plug was pulled on me [in NHRA Pro Stock]. Luckily, it has been an easy transition, as dumb as that could possibly sound. We put all of this stuff in it and obviously you make all your adjustments for the right heights and what have you. Just small four-link changes to try and compensate for what you’re doing and go. That’s the way it has been.”

Glidden began the season racing his Pontiac in the 500-inch NHRA Pro Stock ranks with the backing of tire manufacturer Mickey Thompson Tires. He was to assist the company in developing their large tire program.

Glidden attended a handful of races in the early part of the 2008 season but has since stepped away from running the tour. Also behind the scenes was a controversial split with Richard Maskin, who was supplying the engines for his effort. He confirmed a rumor that speculated Maskin had filed lawsuit against him.

In the midst of this controversy, Glidden did some rearranging on the Pro Stocker’s set-up and began entering the ADRL events.

“Right now we’re pretty enthused,” Glidden said. “It’s a neat place to be. It suits us real good right now. It’s always good when you’re doing well; it hardly matters where you’re doing it at. If we weren’t doing well the frustration with Richard [Maskin] probably wouldn’t be tolerable. We really enjoy the ADRL and they seem to really have their act together, it’s awesome to run in front of these huge crowds. There’s not a boring class really to it. There aren’t many oil downs. There aren’t too many other things that slow the show down other than the fact that there are just a lot of cars.

“We’re tickled; it’s a lot of fun for us right now. Especially to race against some of these outlaw folks who when this thing started were like ‘Come get you some of this.’

“So we went and got some of that and we’ve been really successful. That makes it even sweeter.”