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- Thomas Myers out of Granberry Texas is here with a new 1970 Duster in Pro Nitrous, built by Andy McCoy from Washington Missouri. The car has a 5.2 bore space 800 ci engine from Reher Morrison. They have only three attempts on the car so far but had problems with the nitrous activation, so really this will be the first real runs on the car this weekend.
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- Terry Hously drives that Balance Racing 53 Corvette hailing all the way from Sacramento California. The power comes from a 753 ci Hemi with 4 Speedtech nitrous kits.Frankie “Mad Man” Taylor drives the Pro Extreme Haning Racing Corvette. They ran a 3.71 in testing recently lifting at 3.3 seconds into the run at only 188 MPH. That is near record setting performance for the class. They changed from a clutch to a converter driven car for this year and are having good luck so far. They are running the lightweight aluminum version from Neal Chance.
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- Barkledge Racing is here with a two car team for 2010. Big Brother Zack is behind the wheel of the new 67 Camaro originally built by G Force Race Cars with updates by Duncan Race Cars. This is the race debut for the car and no full laps yet.
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- Bruce Thrift is here trying out the ADRL Pro Nitrous jumping over from Top Sportsman. Hailing from Waycross Georgia they have some experimental Brodix heads and engine from PAR Racing. The combo is a single carb with a cast tunnel ram induction.
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- Kirl Wilkes is making the jump over to ADRL Pro Extreme from NHRA Pro Modified with addition of a screw blower. They have no full hits either on the car in the current configureation.
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- Burton Auxier tried some different combinations testing recently but have went back to a similar set up to last year here this weekend.
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- Frankie “Mad Man” Taylor drives the Pro Extreme Haning Racing Corvette. They ran a 3.71 in testing recently lifing at 3.3 seconds into the run at only 188 MPH. That is near record setting performance for the class. They changed from a clutch to a converter driven car for this year and are having good luck so far. They are running the lightweight aluminum version from Neil Chance.
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- Jeff Dobbins here this weekend dring Billy Dingman Racing’s 2009 Extreme Pro Stock 2009 Championship winning car.
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- Todd Moyer had a 4.08 @ 192 with the first X10.5 car down the track. Naiser has secons position with a 4.16 @ 178. No other cars ran in the teens in the first session this morning. Top five in X 10.5 are Moyer, Naiser, Pappas, Kenny Doak and L.J. Wood Jr.
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- Mike Godwin was the first car in the three second zone with a 3.96. Jim Hasley was the only other car in the threes with a stellar 3.89 @ 196 from a natrually aspirated entry in Pro Nitrous.
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- Shannon Jenkins and Dan Stevenson had a nice match up during the first session with a pair of 4.08’s. John Deflorian ran a 4.00 on his first pass of the day. Ronnie Davis laid down a 4.21 @ 177 which is a personal best for the team.
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- Terry Housley got a 4.07 out of the Ballance Racing 53 Vette. Blake Housley’s car shut off about 100 feet out.
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- Another pair of 4.08’s were Weatherford and Mike Castellana.
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- Josh Hernandez laid one down early in the Pro Extreme class with a 3.78 @ 204. Frankie Taylor bested that with a 3.73 next to todd tutterow’s 3.76
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- Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad Al-Thani ran a 3.78 @ 204. Hossler got a 3.80 @ 200 out of his run.
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- Quain Stott ran a 3.79 @ 201 on his first effort of the day. Zack Barkledge had no luck in this session smoking the titres at the hit.
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- John Stanley broke a rocker and stand on their first hit today. They have replacement parts on hand and there was no damage internally.
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- Haney Motorsports have a two car effort here this weekend with number one qualifier Frankie Taylor and Wes Johnston who sits eighth. Here Wes adjusts the clutch between rounds. On their first hit a fuel line came loose on the pass, Wes lifted and still ran a 4.02.
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- John and Jim Salemi and Mike Stawicki make up the G Force Race Cars crew. Not currently qualified in the Pro Extreme field there are just three hits on this new car. They tested in Mooresville but broke the ring and pinion and had no spare on hand to make repairs so are just learning the new car. Stawicki also builds engines for Alex Hossler and Kirk Wilmes. Gotta love it when the kids are involved with workign on the car.
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- Ron Miller from Lebanon Ohio runs Extreme Pro Stock and they are changing the rear gear ratio between rounds in an effort to pick up some performance.
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- Trevor Eman improved his ET in the second round of XPS from a 4.21 to a 4.18 in the team Arubo Extreme Pro Stock entry.
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- Steven Boone is another XPS entry was fourteenth after round one and improved from a 4.28 to an .18 in round two. They came here untested and are working the kinks out after some off season changes in their 2006 Cobalt. Engines are by Allen Competition in Tennessee.
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- Photo Courtesy ADRL.us
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- Pro Nitrous had three cars in the 3 second zone after two rounds of qualifying with Jim Halsey sitting on top of the field with the 3.89 from the first session. Burton Auxier put his Al Anabi sponsored ride in second ahead of Greg Godwin, both cars ran 3.96. Rickie Smith sits in eighth with a 4.02 @ 184. Lee Adkins is currently on the bump spot with a 4.09 @ 183
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- Extreme Pro Stock had eighteen cars in class this weekend before Sylvester Barnes crashed in the third session on the top end. It was a hard hit and he was shaken up and taken to the hospital for evaluation.
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- Pro Extreme racer Tommy D’APprile had an oil line break early in the run on a single pass, got under the tires and sent him into the wall. The car burst into flames and careened across the track. Tommy pulled the chute and got the car stopped and is out under his own power and OK.
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- After having issues building boost in round two on Extreme 10.5 Gary White laid down a 3.99 @ 182 int eh third session to become the fourth member of the Mickey Thompson 3 Second Club. Other inductees include Todd Moyer, Spiro Pappas and Chuck Ulsch.
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- Mike Castellana ran a 3.91 in the third session putting him in third spot behind Halsey and Auxier, 3.89 @ 196 for Halsey, 3.97 @ 193 for Auxier. John Deflorian Jr also improved from a 4.00 to another personal best run 3.94 @189. Greg Godwin put his 63 Vette in fourth position improving to a 3.96 just ahead of Johnny Pilcher’s 3.97 rounding out the three second zone for qualifiers today in Pro Nitrous. The bump is a 4.08 after three rounds of qualifying.
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- Charles Carpenter got crossed up early on his last run and had to abort the run.
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- Todd Howard jumped all the way to ninth from eighteenth in his 2009 Mustang.
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- We had several cars in Pro Extreme with record setting performance tonight here at SGMP. Early in the round Alex Hossler ran a 3.76putting him in fourth at that time. Jason Scruggs came from out of the field to set low ET with a 3.70, not to be out done Mad Man Frankie Taylor laid down a 3.65 for the fastest pass in Pro Extreme. Then Todd Tutterow and Quain Stott made side by side pass with Tutterow running a 3.71 @ 208.70 next to Stott’s 3.70 @ 203
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- As if a sting of 3.7’s was’nt enough Sheikh Khalid Al-Thani knocked it out of the park with a stellar 3.63 @ 212 MPH pass to take the poll. There is one more session in the morning though and it’s anyones guess what will happen next.
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- Pro extreme is the class to watch today as Sheikh Khalid set low ET, high MPH and the record in the class last night in the third session. The overcast sky should keep track temps down and we look forward to some great racing with a bump spot of 4.04 held by John Stanley’s 68 Camaro.
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- Jason Hamstra’s crew is getting ready for racing this morning setting the air gap in the hat. They are qualified sixth in Pro Extreme and will face Texas based Gaylen Smith’s 57 Hellair in round one.
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- Ron Miller is swapping out a weak valve spring in the XPS 04 Grand AM this morning. They are on teh bump and have to run Pete Berner in the Summit Racing sponsored 09 GXP.
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- Brain Gahm is qualified second in XPS, though they are off a little in ET from usual but Brian feels they are in good shape for race day with the Jery Hass built 07 Mustang. He is matched up with Steven Boone.
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- Former clutch man Steve Robinson now does engine tuning for Richard Penland Motorsports XPS Entry. He has been with RPM for five years and they made the switch to ADRL from IHRA’s discontinued Mountain Motor Pro Stock class. Penland has one of two former Robert Patrick Pro Stock cars here this weekend.
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- Josh Peel is here this weekend with a new car in Extreme 10.5 and they made it down on the fourth pass with a 4.71. Huntsville Racing Engine takes care of the twin turbocharged powerplant. EC1 Race Cars out of Michagan built the car and Josh handled the turbo plumbing, fuel management is an Alan Dudley MFI unit.
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- Micheal Neal landed seventh in XT5 with a 4.84 @ 180 and will face Spiro Pappas in round one who qualified second with a 4.008 @ 188 MPH.
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- Chuck and Joseph Lawrence crew on eighth qualified Bob Bertsch’s Kasse powered Extreme Pro Stock 2007 Mustang. Bob will run Richard Penland in first round.
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- Brian Daniels did not qualify yesterday after fighting a clutch issue. They found the problem last night but the rain shortened qualifying left them with no chance to get in this morning. The team fininsed fourth in 2008 and thenth in 2009 with the ADRL in Pro Extreme.
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- Team Titan is looking to improve their ET today after going over last nights data on the 3.99 pass. If weather and the track co operates look for a .95 out of the little turbo charged 4 cylinder Scion.
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- Bob Bertsch took the win over Richard Penland who had problems and slowed to a 4.92 @ 106. Cole Aranson got a holeshot win over Elijah Morton with a .031 light and 4.165 @ 174 to the losing 4.163. Dean Goforth lost his match with Doug Kirk who will face off with Cary Goforth in round two after his win over Team Aruba driver Trevor Eman.
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- Lester Cooper took down John Montecalvo in his first qualified ADRL event with a hole shot win, .063 light and a 4.18 beats a 4.14. Steven Boone got lucky in his race with Brian Gahm who got out of shape and had to lift. Ron Miller did his job on the tree against top quaifier Pete Berner but could not hold on, 4.09 beats a 4.21
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- The final pair in the session was Gary White and Greg Buschmeyer’s 63 Corvette. Buschmeyer put a big holeshot on White but shut down early with a 5.21 @125 to White’s stright 4.05 @ 184
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- Extreme 10.5 has a short field here in South Georgia with only eight cars. Josh Peel was an alternate and made the field in Jeff Naiser’s place. He left on Kenny Doak and manadged a 4.69 @ 154 in the new car but was outrun by Doak’s 4.21 @ 189, his quickest run of the weekend. Next up was LJ Wood Jr and Todd Moyer with Moyer getting the win with a nice 4.12.
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- Micheal Neal upset Spiro Pappas on a hole shot win. Pappas’ was late with a .081 to Neal’s .046 his 4.12 winds up on the losing end of neal’s 4.15.
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- The Pro Nitrous class kicked off with Steve Vick and Charles Carpenter in the unpainted 55 Belair. Carpenter got out first with a .036 and ran a 3.95 @ 189 to take down Vick’s 4.00 @ 184. The next pair was Todd Howard and Randt Weatherford’s awesome Blue Camaro. Howard left on him but Weatherford drove around with a 3.98 @ 186 beating Howards game 4.01 @ 182 in a very close race, the margin of victory was only .0067.
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- Bob Rahaim matched up with Greg Godwin who also left first and ran quicker, winning the round with a 3.93 @ 186. Again both cars had their best runs on the weekend.Rickie Smith and Johnny Pilcher were next with Pilcher leaving first and running quicker getting the win over Smith’s 3.97 with a 3.96 @ 187. Both cars ran their best runs of the weekend
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- In a big upset John Deflorian took down Shannon Jenkins getting out first and running a 3.94 as jenskins got loose in the other lane and had to lift. Terry Housley matched up with Castellana’s Al Anabi sponsored Camaro. Castellana got the win running a 3.93 @ 192.
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- In a big upset John Deflorian took down Shannon Jenkins getting out first and running a 3.94 as jenskins got loose in the other lane and had to lift. Terry Housley matched up with Castellana’s Al Anabi sponsored Camaro. Castellana got the win running a 3.93 @ 192.
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- Terry Murphy and Burton Auxier were the last pair down in Pro Nitrous with Murphy getting out first with a .026 light. Auxier got loose and pedaled but was out of shape and hit the wall after the finish line. He is OK. Murphy won the round
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- Wild Wes Johnston is on a roll this weekend in Pro Extreme putting Joshua Hernandez out in round one with a 3.77 @ 202. The next pair down was Gaylen Smith and Alex Hossler with Hossler out first and a 4.07 as Smith shut down and coasted to a 9.04.
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- Scruggs and Kelly Martin were next with near indentical reaction times. Scruggs ran a fine 3.73 to take out Martin who was on his best run of the weekend, a 3.80 @ 200.
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- Joey Martin and Frankie Taylor were next and Martin lit the red putting himself out while Taylor went on to run a 3.70 @ 204.
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- Tutterow spun the tires just after the launch pedaling the car but slowing to a 4.31, not nearly enough for Barklage’s 3.86 @ 194.
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- In the upset of the weekend John Stanley gets the win over Sheikh Khalid after his red light by just .002. Quain Stott took the win over Bubba Stanton’s Camaro with a 3.76 @ 204 to Stanton’s 3.86 @ 197 in his best run this weekend. Jason Hamstra took down Terry Leggett with a 3.80 @ 198, Leggett clicked it early after getting loose.
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- Mad Man Frankie Taylor made the semi finals today in Pro Extreme after quailfying in the second position behind KH. He faced Quain Stott who was qualified third. At the hit the blower belt schredded and he was left to watch Stott go on down track for the win to fave of with Carpenter
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- John Deflorian Jr went through an engine swap before round three of Pro Nitrous and though we are pressed for time Charles Carpenter was a great sportsman and waited a few short minuites for them to make the lanes. When the tree came down Carpenter was out first and John was off his game with a .203 light to Carpenter’s .062. Deflorian ran a 3.99 but it wasnt enough to catch Carpenter’s 3.95 @ 188.
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- Pro Extreme Final Quain Stott got out first on Jason Scruggs with a .023 light to Scruggs .037. Stott’s 3.75 @ 205 was not enough to hold off the hard charging Scruggs’ 3.71 @ 106 MPH run for his fourth ADRL event win.
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- Extreme Pro Stock Final In true underdog fasion Steven Boone came from the fifteenth qualified position in his 06 Cobalt to win the sixth annual Hardees Georgia Drags Six over number one qualifier Pete Berner in the Summit Racing sponsored 2009 GXP. Out first after the tree with a .018 light to Berner’s .049, Boone went on to a 4.12 @ 176 to Berner’s quicker 4.09 @ 177. The margin of victory was a scant .0012. Photo Courtesy John Fore III
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- Extreme 10.5 Final Gary White and Todd Moyer made up the final in Extreme 10.5. Moyer left first with an .015 tree to White’s .026. White shut down early to a 4.94 @ 125 to Moyer’s 4.02 @ 195 for his first win in the ADRL.
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- Pro Nitrous Final Pro Nitrous Final was Charles Carpenter and Mike Castellana with the Al Anabi sponsoered Castellana cutting the tree down with a .009 light. to Carpenters .072. Carpenter got out of shape and had to lift while Castellana went on to a 3.93 @ 193.
