Deflorian Resets ADRL Extreme Pro Stock Racing Record
Courtesy of Black Diamond Motorsports
Madison, IL – Like most racers, John got a passion for racing and power as a teenager on the streets of St. Louis, Missouri with his first car a 1969 Plymouth Roadrunner that took him to school, work and the race track. He was a
machinist at a tool and die shop, but decided to change careers and go to work for a local chassis shop by the name of Gateway Race Cars and turned his passion into a full time job. He took his career to the next level, in 1988 he went to work for Jerry Haas Race Cars where he worked his way up to shop foreman and his love for racing grew .
John selected and assembled every part in his Black Diamond Motorsports Jerry Hass Race Cars 2012 Camaro with one thought in mind , being number one in American Drag Racing’s League (ADRL) Extreme Pro Stock class.
John accomplished one of his goal’s in the third session of qualifying at ADRL’s Gateway Drags IV presented by CarSafe held at Gateway Motorsports Park in St. Louis . John ran the fastest elapsed time and mile per hour of ADRL’s Extreme Pro Stock class with a 4.018 seconds at 179.92 miles per hour.
“This is beyond, far beyond my wildest dreams and having it happen here makes it so much sweeter,” DeFlorian said. “I know so many people here and having them out here at this race just makes it so special.
“I’m almost speechless. This is just unbelievable and that’s not even a big enough of a word to describe it.”
Kevin Bealko and the Black Diamond Motorsports GXP, the only automatic transmission powered Extreme Pro Stock, came into the third qualifying session in the sixteenth position with a 4.112 seconds elapsed time at 175.02 miles per hour hoping to remain qualified in the field. But with the fastest Pro Stock field in ADRL’s history, .078 seconds separating first though sixteenth, the GXP ended up in the eighteenth spot with one more qualifying session to go on Saturday .
Black Diamond Motorsports would like to thank all their fans and sponsors, and most of all Sonny’s World Class Racing Engines and Jerry Haas Race Cars without you we could not do what we love.
