Stanley Weiss
Stanley & Weiss Racing ADRL Camaro Pro Mod Blower Explosion In Drag Illustrated
By Camp Stanley
Hagerstown, MD – Mark Rebilas known throughout the sports world as one of the most prolific and energized 
photographers of this era captured the Stanley And Weiss Racing ADRL Pro Extreme Camaro as it blew the the burst panels on the top end charge during qualifying in the ADRL series on the pavement of the Texas Motorplex as the year comes to an end and.
Rebilas’ photo was published in Drag Illustrated’s latest issue March 2011.
John Stanley hit the loud pedal on his way down the track; on the other end of the spectrum between driver / fans this image was in the lens of Mark Rebilas; outcome of this came the much nationally recognized photo showing so much that happened in the flick of the shutters speed that most photographers don’t get a chance to capture in such a way that brings the attention of the ballistic forces that happened during this one frame.
The ADRL.us Family Scenario – Never Forget, No Good Deed Goes Unnoticed
By Camp Stanley
Hagerstown, MD – These time worn words we often hear, The ADRL.us Family, is definitely more than just an analogy! It is a real, true, living, breathing factual entity that really 
does exist. And exist it does, not only in the heads and hearts of those of us who are believers, but in actual actions. This family thought process lives not only at the race tracks across this wide USA we reside in but also up and down the highways and byways we travel on! And we at Stanley & Weiss Racing are one of teams who can attest to the camaraderie that exists across the ADRL teams.
The one thing that does not enter into this equation is the class “I’m better than you” thought processes that have come to pass in other organizations! This part first came to light to me along I-10 in Louisiana where I sat with only ONE of our 2010 dilemmas! As I sat along the interstate highway on a Sunday morning awaiting a tire vendor my friend, Shawn Davis’ bride had found for me I had at least 4 teams across all classes pull up and back up the interstate to see if we needed any help. That My Friends, is what “family” does for “family”!
Updates Underway at Stanley & Weiss for the 2011 ADRL Season
By Camp Stanley: Post Date: 11/21/2010
Hagerstown, MD – We are well on the way with all of our planned updates and changes to the ADRL Pro Extreme Camaro known as “Appalachia on Steroids”. The best thing we can say about this would be the fact that we sure are glad the 2010
season is over!!! All those that follow the trials and tribulations of our team know that we have just come off of the year from Hades!
If you can think of something dumb happening believe you me, it happened to us this year! Dumb, stupid stuff with the car. Dumb, stupid stuff with poor ole Clifford, the Big Red Dog. Dumb stupid stuff with our trailer. AND don’t even ask me about tires!!! The only good thing going for us in the tire department was our beloved Mickey Thompsons on the race car. They did their job very well all year, thank you very much. But the 2010 season has been completed and through all these dilemmas we persevered. The checkbooks got real thin at the end but we made it through. We are very proud of our TENTH place ranking in the ADRL Pro Extreme class we secured at years end. To finish this high out of EIGHTY-FIVE cars in the baddest class of doorslammers on the planet says lots about our determination and perseverance in our eyes. AND we don’t even have a hemi!
Piston Carnage, Will It Ever End???
By Camp Stanley
Hagerstown, MD – The 2010 racing season is what I speak of. We are almost at the end of one of the most disastrous racing seasons we have ever had! And through it all we kept kicking, fighting, biting and gouging all the demons that descended on
Stanley & Weiss Racing this year.
The final, WE HOPE bit came last Saturday as we prepared to leak check the motor before going into our before race preparations for Ennis, Texas.
We had a spark plug in one cylinder a bit hard to get out and when it came out the end of it was beat like a red-headed step child!
We pulled the head off and found that we had dropped the head of ANOTHER valve and it in turn wrecked the intake valve, both valve seats and the piston. This is really getting old I’m telling you! And the two spare heads were on the spare motor under the bench. And that is all we have unlike some big hitters. So straight onto the phone to Mike Janis, our engine repair guru, extraordinaire. We coordinated getting the heads to Buffalo for Monday morning via another racer on the way up.
ADRL’s Drag Stock Leaves Its Mark !!
By Camp Stanley: Post Date: 9/4/2010, Photos Courtesy Of Van Abernathy
“Sucks to be us.” was my blunt assessment to Competition Plus.com on being outside the 16-car field after three Pro Extreme qualifying sessions for the ADRL’s prestigious Dragstock VII on Friday at Rockingham Dragway.
We don’t very often blow our stuff up and almost never, ever knock the blower off of it, but we did a good job of all of it in one go yesterday in that second qualifying session. We lost two cylinders on the run, one of them at 1.6 seconds in and the other 1.8 seconds later. Then we managed to blow the blower off it at 3.03 in! And John still put up a 3.93 lap at only 163.51 mph.
We got back, checked the damage and got right into fixing the blower issues. That being completed we were checking the driver’s side valve lash and found out that an intake valve seat had fallen out. Then we knew why the blower left the manifold! This was where the carnage started. So, we fixed that by putting on one of our spare heads, and then it was on to the other side for a valve adjustment. There we found that a head had fallen off a valve on that side. So we changed that head with our last spare piece!
Hochenheim, Germany: Racing Pro Mods In Europe
By Camp Stanley
Hagerstown, MD – The European drag racing scene consists of FIA rounds all over Europe and to become the FIA champion you must be committed to traveling very long distances to race. For some to spend 30 plus hours on a
ferry is not uncommon! And the costs are astronomical at any exchange rate or any currency.
I had committed to travel to the FIA round at the famous racing facility in Hochenheim, Germany with Marcus Hilt’s Trouble Racing team, again. Our goal was to see about getting the car, the driver and the crew all dialed in and on the same page. Marcus has a great, dedicated crew and the team just needed some outside help in putting all the pieces in their correct places. It does take all three, part and parcel to make an operation work and work well.
Marcus had fitted a late model Lenco between the frame rails of his TM 63 Split window to replace the 35 year old one that he had destroyed at the Santa Pod round in June. And JanCen Engines in Buffalo, NY had repaired the leftover head damages from Marcus’ blowup at Hockenheim in 2009. So all that was left to do was to fit the bigger fuel pump to the car and then see if the car could go from one end to the other under power.
Clifford “The Big Red Dog Drama” On The Road
By Camp Stanley
Hagerstown, MD – I’m an old trucking guy from way back, just like my friend Roger Henson, although with a whole lot 
less money! For the most part I enjoy the peace and solitude of the open road and as John and Tracy like to tell me, it is where I dream up all kinds of things.
And I must admit I do come up with some doozies! Some of them are really great reminders of things we may need to change. And some of them may perhaps be a better way of putting something where it is easier found. My do to lists after after a long trip such as a Dallas or Houston can sometimes be what appears to be an entire trash can of sticky notes!
And then there are the times where I wish I was the one riding in an airplane! The return trip from St Louis was one of those times. As I was motoring along the highway of life on Sunday morning I noticed a strange smell like brakes
What Can Go Wrong Will Go Wrong…
By Camp Stanley / Photos By Axle Weiss
Our friend, that fickle woman Ms Lady Luck appears to have deserted us. We survived the first races of the 2010 
season with a lot of her magic. And after St Louis with the rained out Topeka race included we knew she was off and gone to help some other wayward soul. With our spare motor planted between the frame rails on the off weekend between Houston and St Louis we were ready once again to give our fellow ADRL warriors a run for their money. Or so we thought!
On our first qualifier John informed me that he had no oil pressure at the end of the burnout. So for the first time in our short ADRL career we pushed the car off to the side after John backed up through the water box. Strike ONE!
On our second attempt John had to pedal the Camaro when it started to light the tires at the top of low gear. Strike TWO!
The Orange Camaro Pro Mod “Car Magnet” Unscathed Outside, Hurt Inside
By Camp Stanley / Photos By Axle Weiss
Hagerstown, MD – The second trip to Houston in 2010 for an ADRL race was most definitely a lousy experience! It was bound to happen to us sooner or later, the odds were in fate’s favor. The July journey to Texas started off just fine
but started to go wrong at the outset of the second day’s journey. While cruising along the highway of life in a two lane construction zone I hit a piece of steel in the middle of the road when there was no place to go and no way to avoid it. Luckily I didn’t have a blowout! At that time we didn’t! But I did down the road an hour or so. ON THE TRAILER! So out into the 105 degree heat I went and changed the tire.!
And then there was the racing itself. We had not yet qualified for the first Houston race and with everyone only getting one shot at it we failed to make it in! There went our qualifying streak we were so proud of! But we also had our car magnet facts reinforced yet again when Jason Scruggs ended up bowling for cones out of the right lane. And that was a close one yet again! We were all glad it was a matter of two experienced drivers paying attention or it could have been ugly! The orange car magnet was in the house, AGAIN!
John Done Made Him Mad !!!
By Camp Stanley / Photos By Axle Weiss
Hagerstown, MD – The race weekend in beautiful Heartland Park in Topeka, Kansas sure wasn’t one to write home 
about after all three of Friday’s qualifying sessions were completed.
We found ourselves and our normally potent race car on the outside looking in! We were number NINETEEN out of a field of THIRTY! So much for the headline at the end of the Martin race. We may have thought we were back but on Friday night it wasn’t looking so good!
A lot of Thinking 101 went on and the crew spied what they thought may be the issue Friday night and then Mr. Bigtime Crew Chief came to the same conclusion on Saturday morning while the crew were still snuggled in their beds like bugs in a rug. He, being ME had made a really Dummy 101 tilt error mistake when making some mathematical calculations. That’s right, he can’t count! But as an Australian racer used to tell me: “if you did it-put your hand up.” And I have both hands up and am standing on a ladder for one and all to see!
