The Wrobles or The Rubbles ???

All Walks Of Life Can Enjoy ADRL Drag Racing

The ADRL race in Ennis, Texas “Texas Motorplex” this past weekend has given pause to those that say free tickets don’t always draw people from “all walks of life”. This past weekend William Craig Weiss, better known as “Axle” in the Doorslammer drag racing world invited his longtime and good friend Jim Wroble along with his wife Anne to come to Ennis and see what this “drag racing” was all about.

That invite was the prelude to something the average person never gives much thought to. What is he going on about you may ask, BUT humor me please. You will be rewarded in the end!

Jim is a semi retired General Sales Manager for one of the most successful steel manufacturers in the world, Steel Dynamics Inc. His bride Anne is a highly successful registered nurse that works at a major Dallas hospital.

And that is where this where this little story is going. Right into that said hospital in Dallas!

It shall prove to one and all that drag racing has surpassed the dirty fingernails; grubby clothes type of environment that is so often associated with it. Our spectators DO most definitely come from all walks of life and they ALL do not have dirty fingernails!

Ms Anne’s story was recounted to me by friend and associate William C “Axle” Weiss and I felt compelled to “put pen to paper” and enlighten a lot of people out there in cyberspace that WE, the drag racers of the world have become a whole lot more than the world believed of us only a few short years ago.

Anne Roble was working at the hospital Monday morning when one of her colleagues asked her in passing: “What did you do this past weekend?” And it “was on from there”! Anne told them that she and Jim had gone out to Ennis to a drag race. “No kidding” was the response from her colleague, “so did we”! They had gone with some friends and neighbors who also raced on the weekend. AND Anne’s colleague even knew of the Stanley & Weiss Camaro from the hills of Appalachia! That speaks well of our reputation all the way down in Texas, BUT it speaks even better of our sport of choice! It says that drag racers, even without the national name recognition or the television presence on a national scale of a John Force is still recognizable and speaks well for the ADRL and its’ marketing partners.

The road leads only one way from here, onward and upward!