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PX Notes

Three cars ran over 200 at Gateway they were those driven by Scruggs, Josh Hernandez and Todd Tutterow … A 200-mph club for the Pro Nitrous cars is rumored to be in the works … The only woman driving a Pro Extreme car at the Gateway event was Cathy Belcher, who was .005 off the bump spot …

Todd Martin had a 3.689 ET in the third round of PX quals! The time was disallowed because of the .718 60-ft.  ET he was credited with … 33 cars were entered in PX. The bump for a 32-car field would have been Neal Wantye with a 4.278 … Mike Janis has been very public about the fact that he has installed a Davis traction control device on supercharged Hemi in both of the last two ADRL races he has won.

Pro Nitrous RESULTS

Team Al-Anabi has most of the premier drivers, tuners, and engine builders in their camp and the strength of that team is finally being felt by the rest of the nitrous racers.

A driver and team that is really coming into its prime is the Qatar-based Pro Nitrous team that has Khalid Al-Balooshi as its driver. Al-Balooshi had low ET of the meet for nitrous cars with a 3.909. “Tricky Rickie” Smith serves as crew chief for Balooshi.  In fact the top three qualifiers all were Al-Anabi backed teams with Reher-Morrison powerplants. And in eliminations they dominated the action with Balooshi and Mike Castellana going for the title in final round. 

Balooshi may have succumbed to a little nervousness in the final round brought on by racing in front of a full house of fans for his first ADRL title. He left before the tree was activated, giving the automatic win to New Yorker Castellana, who coasted to a 4.57/118.45 win after he had traction issues.

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