Over the last few years, Billy Glidden has been a regular face in the ADRL, but in 2013, with the Extreme 10.5 category that he once ruled now dissolved, he will be returning to his roots with the NMCA. Glidden been working with the team at Mickey Thompson Tires developing tires and wheels, and as they are looking to do more testing this season, the move to the NMCA makes sense. The ADRL’s skyrocketing cost to run at the top of the field make it difficult for the budget-conscious racer to get in a lot of runs and acquire useful data: two things that are a necessity during the M/T testing program.

In the past 12 years, Glidden has been champion of the NMRA‘s now-defunct Pro 5.0 class twice and the ultra-competitive NMCA Super Street class twice, and is well aware of what it will take to run at the top in the NMCA’s big-dog class. 

While competing in the ADRL, Glidden took home Driver of the Year honors and the series’ Extreme 10.5 championship during the 2008 season, but has been focused on assisting the Mickey Thompson team over the last couple of seasons and hasn’t focused on competing in any one series specifically, instead making appearances in the ADRL, at Milan Dragway’s Run What Ya Brung Races, an NMCA event or three, and a number of other opportunities through the course of each year.

The lifelong racer has always been a fan favorite, as evidenced by the throngs of people that can almost always be found milling about his trailer when he shows up for an event. Billy and wife Shannon are a hardworking team that evoke memories of his father, Bob, and mother, Etta, from their NHRA Pro Stock championship racing days of the 1970’s and ’80’s. We look forward to seeing him back on the track, and can’t wait to see how his presence shakes up Pro Street, a class that has a wide variety of cars and engine styles in competition.