Stevens, known as a “leaver”, put four-hundredths on Berner on the tree but the lane couldn’t hold the Ford’s power and Berner’s Pontiac motored by Stevens for the win.

After the win Berner said, "The car is just so phenomenal right now and the guys are just working so hard. This is just awesome."

EXTREME 10.5

Extreme 10.5 star Bill Glidden keeps finding his way to the final round and occasionally the winner’s circle in this class despite the fact that there are some cars that are regularly are quicker and faster than his nitrous/carbureted ancient (by today’s standards) 500-inch Ford Pro Stock motored car.

The PBIR race was an example of how the son of NHRA legend Bob Glidden (and a charter member of the NHRA Six-Second Pro Stock Club manages to find a way to win, but this win at this race was one of the more unusual of his great ADRL career. 

Using Ford motors and heads that are at least 20 years past being state-of-the-art Glidden managed to qualify his nitrous/gas carbureted Mustang second behind class bully Dan Millen’s blown ‘Stang with a 3.961/ 183.59 to Millen’s 3.891/198.85 effort.

For the second straight race the XTF class was short on entries for a 16-car field. There were 12 entries but according to ADRL’s Bret Kepner there were at least five or so cars that didn’t come to PBIR because of broken engines or the expensive tow. ADRL rules state with that number of entries the field drops to the quick eight cars.

In the second round No. 1 qualifier Dan Millen won over Jimmy Marinio with a 3.920 198.26 effort but blew the motor in the lights when he stepped off of the throttle. The ensuing fire damaged the engine and chassis from the firewall forward. Even though Millen was getting a bye into the finals, the fire damage couldn’t be fixed and he was out of the race.

So, the other semifinal race between Glidden and the colorful blown Vette of Frankie Taylor would determine the Extreme Ten-Five class champion. It was a bizarre race to say the least. Glidden left on Taylor by about a half-tenth of a second, but at just 300 feet out the Mustang had electrical power failure and shut off. Taylor seemingly had the round win and class championship in the bag when he inexplicably had tire shake that was bad enough that his ‘Vette skated over the centerline and he was DQ’d. Neither car got an official ET for the lap but since Taylor crossed the centerline Glidden got the round win and by default the class win too. He did stage the car and took the light in the final round for the win.

"We had really good luck, but we'll take it," Glidden said. ”The car is just running really, really good for what we have."