The ADRL Squad 660 track prep team of the Traction Twins is busy re prepping the track after Friday’s and this morning’s rain washed it off. The twins are regarded as the best in the business and their dedication to the sport shows in how they go about the procedure of getting it right. Competition Director Bubba Corzine took a walk out to see the progress.

Pro Mod racer Dan Stevenson is running this weekend, when I stopped by this morning Charles Carpenter was going over the valves on the Reher Morrison 872 which is fed by a Switzer Dynamics nitrous system.

Chris Powers is here running Top Dragster with a new car powered by a 930 cubic inch Sonny’s Hemi. The car is a 262 inch swing arm design built by S&W and painted by Koreck Design. This is Powers’ first ADRL event and the car should by a contender for best appearing this weekend.

Pro Drag Radial racer Frank Soldridge rolling in this morning and is stuck pitted in the back away from the other radial cars. The car is owned by Vinny Fiore with Frank’s PSI Speed Solutions handling the tuning and maintenance on the twin turbocharged Mustang.

Steve Woolley is here with his 66 Chevy 2 Pro Drag Radial car for his third outing with the new car. His first event was at MIR where he took the win, then just last week at Cecil County he earned a runner up finish to Frank Soldridge. The best run with the car so far is a 4.42. The car has a twin turbo Chevy from Proline Racing displacing 596 cubic inches. The team gets a lot of help from Proline Racing and C&F Race Cars.

Brunson Grothus runs this beautiful Pro Extreme Motorcycle out of their own Grothus Drag Bikes shop in Davenport, Iowa. The best to date has been a 4.15 using a Ward cylinder head, Fast By Gast block, Bill Robinson Industries 5 speed auto billet trans with a MTC Engineering clutch on their own chassis built by his father Ed Grothus. Ryan Young’s Endocil Art painted this bike and two previous bikes for the team. Endocil Art is their main sponsor.

After earning the Extreme Pro Stock win at the ADRL Springs Drag IV in Cordova, Illinois the Alltel sponsored Team Aruba took the car and engine down to freshen the engine and go over the entire car, doing routine maintenance and cleaning it from top to bottom.

The Morning drivers meeting was packed with the addition of Pro Drag Radial to the series. Kenny went over starting and burnout procedures as well as announced the first two pairs out in each class.

Keen Brothers Racing has three wins this year to date and a number one qualifier at the ADRL Georgia Drags VII. With the US Street Nationals in Bradenton, their Heads Up Madness event in May and just two weeks ago at Orlando Speed World running Outlaw Pro Mod the team is off to a good start for the 2013 season. They run a Reher Morrison big Chevy with Speedtech Nitrous. Crew members are Vick Keen, Tony Christian, Russ Sutherland and Jimmy’s wife Holly. They freshened up the engine after Orlando with new rods and pistons with Rob Wells from Ford Speed Racing honing the block for them. Sponsors include Reher Morrison and Hoosier Tires.

Canadian racer Enzo Peccini made the trip down to Virginia from, he runs a Brad 8 Hemi with an F3R Procharger. Over the winter he upgraded the fuel system with new, larger manifolds and -6 line feeding 2 Mark Micke 550 injectors per cylinder. A new intake from CFE was installed after the Lights Out IV in February at South Georgia Motorsports Park.

Paul Major rolled in yesterday with his somewhat controversial 2002 Corvette built by DMC Race Cars Inc. It has been updated in the off season with a switch from the rear mount turbos and a 580 ci, 5 inch bore space big Chevy from Joe Newsham’s J&E Racing. The team tested just the other day at MIR with good results, running a 4.53 then a 4.41 before a couple of minor issues ended their session. Sponsors include J&E Racing, DMC Racing, Rossler, Mickey Thompson and Pro Torque.

Pro Drag Radial was the first class up this morning with Kyle Huettel coming out strong with his Cypress, Texas based 2002 Fulton powered Camaro, earning top qualifier with a 4.280 @ 175 MPH. He was paired with Steve Jackson who struck the tires running a 5.64 @ 100 MPH.

Number two qualifier after one session was Mark Woodruff with his Sonny’s powered 67 Vette. His 4.42 @ 183.22 MPH captured top MPH for the round.

Many racers were off pace due to a tricky track surface despite the Traction Twins best efforts. Due to rain earlier in the day the entire surface had to be re-prepped and round one qualifying didn’t begin until around 4 PM, making the track temp soar to well over 100 degrees, not the friendliest surface for the Drag Radial tire. Frank Soldridge has run fairly consistent 4.20’s at several tracks but could only manage a 5.09 @ 169 for the round putting him in eighth spot of 23 cars.

Lizzi Musi edged out Chuck Moan for number one qualifier in Top Sportsman after running identical 4.132 ET’s. The tie breaker was Musi’s faster 174.66 MPH which was also top MPH for the round.

Eddie Careccia blasted the Top Dragster field with top MPH and low ET with a 3.97 @ 186 MPH pass.

Scott Hintz (left lane) was another racer from Texas who took low ET and top MPH in Extreme Pro Stock in the first session running a very nice 4.108 @ 177.18 MPH.

Trevor Eman is fresh off a win at Cordova and has run well this year. His 4.11 @ 175 was good for second qualifier.

The Pro Nitrous leader was Jim Laurita from Morgantown, West Virginia. He runs Reher Morrison power with Switzer Dynamics nitrous.

Steve “Killin Time” Jackson put up a 3.88 @ 182 to earn number two qualifier for the session.

Due to the late start the sun was going down before even one qualifying round was completed. The twins prepped the track prior to Pro Extreme rolling out.

Ales Hossler put the Al-Anabi Camaro on the poll running a great 3.594 @ 209.56.

Jason Scruggs put his 63 Vette in second, just ahead of Tommy D’April with a 3.63 @ 208.04 MPH. Scruggs wears the 2 from last years second place finish overall.