The ADRL’s Extreme Ten Five class is just another Pro Extreme class with about three or four inches of tire width taken away. The only real discernable difference between the two classes is the tires and, of course, the performance. But aside from that single item all of the bells and whistles you see in Pro Extreme have found their way to this class.

Turbocharged, supercharged, nitrous oxide-injection, alky, gasoline and (if they wanted to) probably nitro. The XTF class records are in the three-second zone with a speed record of 206+!!!!  

The stars of the class are mostly those that are equipped with supercharged and turbocharged six- and eight-cylinder engines. The sole holdout against these guys is Billy Glidden, who races using decades old nitrous oxide-injected Ford 500-inch motors left over from his dad Bob’s Pro Stock years.
Glidden may be in a gunfight with only a knife for a weapon but he is holding his own against the Kompressor Krews. Glidden’s skill as a driver has won him some races and in the finals against Chuck Ulsch at St. Louis Glidden had a .000 RT but things went downhill fast from there and Ulsch ran a solid three-second pass for the win.

"Hopefully this puts us back in the mix. Every little bit helps," Ulsch said. "We made major changes before every run and we threw some stuff out there. We got where we want to be."

Extreme Pro Stock

Ford racer Brian Gahm was consistently the quickest of the Extreme Pro Stockers and that consistency paid off as Gahm put his Mustang in the ADRL winner’s circle for the second time in 2010. Gahm didn't put up monster numbers - though his 4.11 in the finals was strong - but he never had an ET above 4.15 in eliminations.

Gahm went a 4.13 at 173 mph to beat Cary Goforth in the semifinals, and second generation race Cale Aronson, making his first finals appearance, unbelievably timed out and was red-lighted by the autostart system in the final against Gahm.

Aronson did have his moment of glory, though, as he reached the finals by knocking off red-hot John Montecalvo, denying Montecalvo the chance to become the first ADRL driver to win five straight races.