Stanley & Weiss Clocks A 3.75 At ADRL Martin Against Hernandez in Pro Modified

By Camp Stanley

Hagerstown, MD – The Appalachia on Steroids Camaro piloted by John Stanley has not had as good a year as the results would show. Two aborted qualifying shots in Houston garnered nothing educational for the team from the hills of Western Maryland. And then it rained and rained and rained some more! So it was on to Valdosta where more rain bright and early on Saturday morning probably saved their butts yet again! Then Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Thani “KH” handed them a first round win with -.002 red light. Remember that color for later on!!! The second round was lost to the bad to the bone Corvette piloted by Wild Wes Johnston running out of the Taylor Brothers Speed Emporium in Texas.

And then it was on to Richmond, Virginia for round number four of this war called ADRL Pro Extreme drag racing When the dust settled after four rounds of qualifying John found himself in the 11th qualifying spot and paired with the second team car of the Al Anabi juggernaut piloted by the legendary Todd Tutterow. At the flash of the lights on the Christmas tree John was off and gone like a shot. Meanwhile Todd suffered an uncharacteristic shake issue that saw him end up in John’s lane automatically handing the win over to John R. Stanley! The second round saw him paired against Jason Scruggs who is a bad, bad man! John’s jitters from staging against one the men who made the ADRL what it has become got the best of him and he left a red light hanging on the tree handing the win over to a tire shaking Jason. Now do you remember that color from above??? Don’t forget it yet!

So off we went last weekend to the beautiful facility in Martin, Michigan hoping we had solved the chassis issues which had been plagueing us all year to date. After the rain decided to leave for the day on Friday we ran a 3.93 and then a 3.92 qualifier all the while annihilating the clutch. Saturday morning the team awoke to more raindrops which finally gave way to blue sunny skies. So needless to say the last qualifier was pitched and into eliminations John went, head held high from his number 13 qualifying position. His first round opponent was Bad-Fast 211 mph Wild Wes Johnston yet again! But today was not to be Wes’ day!

At the flash of the green Wes’s mount left him stranded on the starting with a broken blower pulley while John screamed down the race track. Next up was the aptly named Frankie “Madman” Taylor, the driver of the Corvette tuned by his brother Paul. And again the lucky luck bug bit John yet again! John left with Frankie but it was all downhill for The Madman just past the 60 foot clocks where his potent Corvette succumbed to some horrific tire shake and had to abort the run while John was cruising through with 3.83 at almost 200 mph!

So there sat John Stanley paired yet again in the semi-finals against Josh Hernandez. And for the trivia buffs out there in cyberspace, this was to be John’s 3rd semi final appearance in three years of ADRL drag racing. It has been one a year for three years and they have all been against that wicked 57 Chevrolet MMA Fight Me Team who John has never been able to get a win light against! So after great burnouts and careful staging the two warriors were left to settle it on the race track! But it was to become three for three for the affable Texan against John. This time John left a light that was so red on the tree that the police were giving out tickets in Kalamazoo! But all was not lost here. John learned to never anticipate a tree again. The starter will get YOU just about every time.

Even though we had lost another chance at a final round race and a potential win the ADRL Extreme Pro Modified Camaro has found its form in the chassis department again. All that was required for the repair was for the Crew Chief to reinsert the gray matter that had fallen out from between his ears. The formidable crew of Scott and Jimmy are doing their part in making the little AJ Olds wedge motor sing like a demon against those BAE hemis. A 3.75 time slip on the last run gave the crew cause to be optimistic that they have found their form yet again.

And now they are hoping that they can find the keys to that yellow brick road in Topeka, Kansas in a few weeks!