ADRL Dragstock V Attracts Capacity Crowd
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<br><font color="Navy">A huge crowd jammed into Rockingham Dragway Sep. 13, to watch the American Drag Racing League’s Dragstock V, the O’Fallon, Missouri-based series’ oldest and most prestigious national event.</font>
<P>ROCKINGHAM, NC (Sep. 13, 2008) — A capacity crowd estimated at up to 30,000 witnessed the stars of the American Drag Racing League (ADRL) go after a $100,000 purse Sep. 13, in the ADRL’s Dragstock V at Rockingham Dragway.
Former Pro Extreme class champion Bubba Stanton of Potts Camp, MS, steered his supercharged 1963 Corvette to a final-round, 3.81-second pass at 197.02 miles per hour over the Rockingham eighth mile to beat Semora, NC’s Chip King. Reigning class champ Jason Scruggs lost in the semi-finals, but not before thrilling the fans with a pair of 200-plus mph passes in the preliminary rounds.
Puerto Rico’s Raymond Matos recently purchased the 1970 Cuda of current Pro Nitrous championship contender Dennis Radford and picked up the event win with it in his career-first ADRL start after going 4.03 at 183.22 mph against Andy Jensen of Nescopeck, PA. Jensen earlier set a new ADRL elapsed time record of 3.87 seconds with his turbocharged 1968 Camaro.
In the Extreme 10.5 class, named for the relatively narrow 10.5-inch slicks the cars race on, second-generation racer Billy Glidden won for the third time this year. Glidden, from Whiteland, IN, also established a new E.T. record with his 4.14-second final-round win at 174.12 mph over Darrin Hoyle and his 2006 Cobalt from Taylorsville, NC.
Ron Procopio, from Wake Forest, NC, won his second Pro Extreme Motorcycle event of the season over Broxton, GA’s Carlos Wilkerson. Both riders covered the 660-foot distance in 4.28 seconds, but Procopio’s 165.90-mph ride reached the finish line eighth-thousandths of a second ahead of Wilkerson.
In a special-event Extreme Pro Stock race, Holdenville, OK’s Cary Goforth took the final-round win with a 4.12 pass at 175.50 mph in his 2008 Cobalt against Jeff Dobbins and his 2006 Escort from Wilmington, NC.
The ADRL returns to action Oct. 24-25, with its season-ending Battle for the Belts world championship playoffs at the Texas Motorplex, in Dallas.
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<br><font color="Navy">A huge crowd jammed into Rockingham Dragway Sep. 13, to watch the American Drag Racing League’s Dragstock V, the O’Fallon, Missouri-based series’ oldest and most prestigious national event.</font>
<P>ROCKINGHAM, NC (Sep. 13, 2008) — A capacity crowd estimated at up to 30,000 witnessed the stars of the American Drag Racing League (ADRL) go after a $100,000 purse Sep. 13, in the ADRL’s Dragstock V at Rockingham Dragway.
Former Pro Extreme class champion Bubba Stanton of Potts Camp, MS, steered his supercharged 1963 Corvette to a final-round, 3.81-second pass at 197.02 miles per hour over the Rockingham eighth mile to beat Semora, NC’s Chip King. Reigning class champ Jason Scruggs lost in the semi-finals, but not before thrilling the fans with a pair of 200-plus mph passes in the preliminary rounds.
Puerto Rico’s Raymond Matos recently purchased the 1970 Cuda of current Pro Nitrous championship contender Dennis Radford and picked up the event win with it in his career-first ADRL start after going 4.03 at 183.22 mph against Andy Jensen of Nescopeck, PA. Jensen earlier set a new ADRL elapsed time record of 3.87 seconds with his turbocharged 1968 Camaro.
In the Extreme 10.5 class, named for the relatively narrow 10.5-inch slicks the cars race on, second-generation racer Billy Glidden won for the third time this year. Glidden, from Whiteland, IN, also established a new E.T. record with his 4.14-second final-round win at 174.12 mph over Darrin Hoyle and his 2006 Cobalt from Taylorsville, NC.
Ron Procopio, from Wake Forest, NC, won his second Pro Extreme Motorcycle event of the season over Broxton, GA’s Carlos Wilkerson. Both riders covered the 660-foot distance in 4.28 seconds, but Procopio’s 165.90-mph ride reached the finish line eighth-thousandths of a second ahead of Wilkerson.
In a special-event Extreme Pro Stock race, Holdenville, OK’s Cary Goforth took the final-round win with a 4.12 pass at 175.50 mph in his 2008 Cobalt against Jeff Dobbins and his 2006 Escort from Wilmington, NC.
The ADRL returns to action Oct. 24-25, with its season-ending Battle for the Belts world championship playoffs at the Texas Motorplex, in Dallas.
