Compiled by Kay Burk
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Photos by Joe McHugh

Overflow crowds, record-setting performances and the debut of a new
professional category into National Guard ADRL competition were the highlights of the
National Guard ADRL Safety-Kleen Drapalooza V at Houston Raceway Park on March 6-7.

Todd Tutterow (Pro Extreme), Stan Allen (Pro Nitrous), Billy Glidden (Extreme 10.5), Charlie Prophit (Pro Extreme
Motorcycle) and Doug Kirk (Extreme Pro Stock) took home the Minuteman trophies.

Mike Castellana’s Pro Nitrous ’68 Firebird does a burnout in front of the capacity crowd.

PRO EXTREME

Tutterow mowed down a tough Pro Extreme field, using seven 200+ mile per hour runs throughout the weekend to score his first career Pro Extreme national event win. The North Carolina-born Tutterow defeated reigning two-time Pro Extreme champion Jason Scruggs in the final round with a 3.925-second, 201.46-mph run to Scruggs' 4.241 at 136.41.

Ironically, winning the race wasn't the original reason the veteran racer from Lewisville, NC, brought his family and his race team to Baytown. It was for the chance to win the $5,000 bounty put up by Flowmaster for being one of the first three drivers to exceed 200 miles-per-hour down the eighth mile in a Pro Extreme car. That goal was accomplished earlier, as Tutterow shattered the mark during qualifying, joining Scruggs and Bubba Stanton as members of the ultra-exclusive Flowmaster Pro Extreme 200-mph Club with his 201.43 mph run.