ADRL DRAGSTOCK - ROUSING SUCCESS
Sun, 2008-09-14 11:00
A capacity crowd estimated at up to 30,000 witnessed the stars
of the American Drag Racing League (ADRL) go after a $100,000 purse
Sep. 13, in the ADRL’s Dragstock V at Rockingham Dragway.
Current
ADRL Pro Extreme world champion Jason Scruggs (left) and 2006 class
champ and eventual Dragstock V winner Bubba Stanton paired up in round
two of qualifying at Rockingham Dragway. The owners of the two race
teams were each offered a bounty of $10,000 if their cars posted
side-by-side, 200-plus-mph passes. They came up just a little short,
though, with Scruggs going 3.86 at 199.40 in his 2007 Dodge Stratus,
while Stanton and his 1963 Corvette earned the pole position with his
pass of 3.81 seconds at 197.33 mph.
ADRL Dragstock V Attracts Capacity Crowd
A capacity crowd estimated at up to 30,000 witnessed the stars of the American Drag Racing League (ADRL) go after a $100,000 purse Sep. 13, in the ADRL’s Dragstock V at Rockingham Dragway.
Current ADRL Pro Extreme world champion Jason Scruggs (left) and 2006 class champ and eventual Dragstock V winner Bubba Stanton paired up in round two of qualifying at Rockingham Dragway. The owners of the two race teams were each offered a bounty of $10,000 if their cars posted side-by-side, 200-plus-mph passes. They came up just a little short, though, with Scruggs going 3.86 at 199.40 in his 2007 Dodge Stratus, while Stanton and his 1963 Corvette earned the pole position with his pass of 3.81 seconds at 197.33 mph.
Puerto Rico’s Raymond Matos recently purchased the 1970 Cuda of current Pro Nitrous championship contender Dennis Radford and picked up the event win with it in his career-first ADRL start after going 4.03 at 183.22 mph against Andy Jensen of Nescopeck, PA. Jensen earlier set a new ADRL elapsed time record of 3.87 seconds with his turbocharged 1968 Camaro.
In the Extreme 10.5 class, named for the relatively narrow 10.5-inch slicks the cars race on, second-generation racer Billy Glidden won for the third time this year. Glidden, from Whiteland, IN, also established a new E.T. record with his 4.14-second final-round win at 174.12 mph over Darrin Hoyle and his 2006 Cobalt from Taylorsville, NC.
Ron Procopio, from Wake Forest, NC, won his second Pro Extreme Motorcycle event of the season over Broxton, GA’s Carlos Wilkerson. Both riders covered the 660-foot distance in 4.28 seconds, but Procopio’s 165.90-mph ride reached the finish line eighth-thousandths of a second ahead of Wilkerson.
In a special-event Extreme Pro Stock race, Holdenville, OK’s Cary Goforth took the final-round win with a 4.12 pass at 175.50 mph in his 2008 Cobalt against Jeff Dobbins and his 2006 Escort from Wilmington, NC.
The ADRL returns to action Oct. 24-25, with its season-ending Battle for the Belts world championship playoffs at the Texas Motorplex, in Dallas.
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