Rockingham
Dragway has a well-deserved reputation as a fast track and racers at
the National Guard ADRL’s Flowmaster Dragstock VI reinforced that
reputation Friday night with some of the quickest and fastest fields in
series history.
Pro Extreme qualifying climaxed with a stellar 3.71-seconds pass at
205.10 miles per hour over the Rockingham eighth mile by Jason Hamstra
in his supercharged ’68 Camaro, representing the quickest and fastest
pass ever by a torque converter-equipped car. It marks the first time
Hamstra has ever officially led a National Guard ADRL qualifying round.
“We stepped it up a little bit at night, but it was far from a perfect
pass,” the 21-year-old driver from Demotte, Indiana, said. “It moved
around quite a bit out there. Our computer shows it pulled 2Gs lateral
movement at one point. My teammates pointed out I missed my shift point
a little and I told them that was because I was kind of busy driving!”