X-DRL at St. Louis

Words by Jason R. Sakurai
Photos by Roger Richards

The X-treme Drag Racing League made its very first appearance at Gateway Motorsports Park in Madison, Ill., on June 14-15.

FRIDAY

Friday's qualifying from the 2013 X-Treme Drag Racing League X-Treme Gateway Showdown included some exciting if not unexpected results.

From the top, in Pro X-Treme, low qualifier Brandon Pesz’s ’53 Corvette did the opposite of blowing the doors off his competition, and did so twice to his own car. Points leader Pesz kept his Lethal Threat team busy, first in finding parts to the original door that flew off, and the second time in retrieving what they could of the spare door to enable them to come back tomorrow. He was, however, rewarded with a 3.628 ET at 208.91 MPH and the top qualifying spot.

In Pro Nitrous, it was Jeff Naiser who ran a 3.851 to a 3.869 for second qualifier Bob Rahaim, both in Chevy Camaros.

Pro Turbo ran as an exhibition with Todd Moyer prevailing over Mike Murillo, with a 3.908, 200.95 MPH, to Murillo’s 4.349 at 145.16 MPH.