PRO NITROUS
Kentucky’s Billy Harper proved his record-setting performance at the previous ADRL race in Georgia was no fluke as he dominated Pro Nitrous in Michigan. Harper secured the number-one slot with a 3.94 E.T. at 186.71 mph, then easily handled Edmund Hall with a 3.96 in round one of eliminations. In the arm-drop segment, Harper dropped Randy Weatherford with a 4-flat pass—his first not in the 3-second zone all weekend—then won with a holeshot over Thomas Myers to set up a final-round meeting with teammate Dennis Radford in Virginia.
In just the second race outing with his new David Janes-built “Black Ice” Camaro, Pro Nitrous ace Shannon Jenkins rebounded from a rare ADRL DNQ a month earlier at Valdosta, GA, to run a career-best 3.95 and qualify second at Martin. The Iceman advanced from round one of eliminations thanks to an uncharacteristic red-light start by Johnny Pilcher, but fell to Radford in round two on Sunday.
Oregon racer Dennis Radford solidified his position atop the Pro Nitrous Battle for the Belts points list with a 7th-place start and a trip to the rain-postponed final in his ’70 AAR Cuda.
Defending Pro Nitrous champ Jamie Hancock made it into the raceday field with a last-chance, 13th-place run in his ’04 Corvette, but couldn’t hold off Thomas “Tom Slick” Myers in round one of eliminations.
Greg Godwin lit up the night with his Walterboro, SC-based ’63 Corvette in the opening qualifying session. Godwin wound up 5th on the list and got past Pat Moore before falling to Thomas Myers in round two.
EXTREME 10.5
 Michelle Wilson, the only woman making a full-season charge in the ADRL, secured her career-first, number-one starting position with a 4.32-seconds pass at 169.91 mph, edging ADRL first-timer Billy Glidden (in competition) by just nine 10-thousandths of a second. Wilson and her Azle-Tx-based 2000 Firebird made it to the semis, but a fuel pump problem on the line forced her to concede to Gary White in the Team Titan Scion. |
 The sparks were flying when reigning Extreme 10.5 champion Steve Gorman left the line to qualify 3rd in an eight-car field at Martin. With no staging lights working, Gorman was deemed to have rolled in too far and disqualified from his first-round pairing with series newcomer Brent Rau. |