ADRL Completes Mid-East Goodwill Tour
Call
it a working vacation, but American Drag Racing League (ADRL)
co-founders Tommy Lipar and Kenny Nowling, who also serves as president
of the O’Fallon, Missouri-based series, are heading home after a
whirlwind, week-long tour of Doha, Qatar and Dubai and Umm Al Quwain,
in the United Arab Emirates.
Accompanied by ADRL Executive Assistant Jessica Alcoke, the trio were
guests of Sheikh Khalid Bin Hamad Al Thani of Qatar, an oil-rich
peninsula nation abutting Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf. The Sheikh
is intent on globalizing the sport of drag racing and has invested
millions of dollars in building race facilities and teams at home and
recently expanded to assembling a multi-car ADRL Pro Nitrous team with
connections to New York, West Virginia and Alabama.