Stanley Weiss
Stanley And Weiss Racing Awarded Best Appearing Team, ADRL Topeka
By Camp Stanley / Photo By Roger Richards
Hagerstown, MD – In the early winter months of 2010 the drag racing team known as Stanley & Weiss Racing decided to out source a new design for a t-shirt to sell to our many loyal fans worldwide. We settled on Tyler Clark’s WickedGrafixx t-shirt emporium as our newest supplier of a quality shirt that anyone would be proud to wear.
Camp and Tyler burned up the internet and the phone lines over a 2 month period tweaking and perfecting what became a GREAT design for our newest shirts Showing off Our ADRL Pro Extreme Camaro! While Tyler provided the insight to the design, Camp provided the essence of the team and all were melded into a design that said much about who the Hillbillies from Appalachia really were.
These shirts were debuted at the ADRL race in Houston in March to rave reviews! There were orders via mail and phone for them from literally around the world!
And then later there was a new avenue opened for the WickedGrafixx / Stanley & Weiss Racing partnership. The ADRL powers that be had very wisely asked that all the teams wear at least a collared shirt while on the starting line. Now the hillbillies had been doing this for some years and had carried over their Pro Street uniform shirts to the ADRL.
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!
Stanley/Weiss Racing Ventures To Santa Pod Raceway With Trouble Motorsports
Story by Camp Stanley
Hagerstown, MD – The confirmation is that YES, I do have the world’s greatest “job”. I have just returned from my trip to Santa Pod Raceway in Merry Ole England. This trip was a return to a race track where my friend Brian Wood and I had ventured off to several years ago and observed 40 days and 40 nights of rain over a six day time span. To say that it rained hard would be a gross understatement of major proportions!
So when I arrived at the track Wednesday afternoon after a visit to Andy Robinson’s race car emporium and it started to sprinkle I had a massive case of deja vu! Not this again was all I could think! But after meeting all the crew on Marcus Hilt’s “Punisher” Pro Mod Corvette we got straight into the suspension setup of the car. The harder we worked and the faster we worked, the harder it rained and the little rivers of water running through the pits was enough for us to just give up on it for the night. We had no recourse but to delve into the premixed stash of that margarita stuff manufactured by the infamous mixologist (I am not a bartender!) himself, Me! And it was received well by one and all! The WORLDWIDE reputation enjoyed by this drink has now been carried to the European side of the world. Until we ran out of mix, they had been sampled by people from Texas, Sweden, England, Switzerland, France and Denmark. And it received its’ just due in the compliment department.
Bad Fast Is What They Were “Appalachian Hillbillies” Dinwiddie Wild Style
Courtesy of Stanley Weiss Racing
The third stop on the ADRL tour in 2010 was the fantastic drag strip located in Dinwiddie, VA just south of the staid old city of Richmond. This track was good to us last year for our first appearance there as an ADRL Pro Extreme
racing team. It was where we shocked ourselves and everyone else around us by completely bypassing the 3.80 ET zone and running a 3.79 on the night qualifier!
The first two hits in qualifying were nothing to write home about and had left us on the non qualified list. But we redeemed ourselves a bit on the night qualifier yet again. A pedaling 3.89 along side the first Al Anabi Racing Team Camaro put us in the show where we would stay through the last qualifier on Saturday morning. Our 3.806 on Sat morning was real close to another 3.70 run for us but it was going to have to do. The bad thing about that 3.80 with a 6 run was the fact that we were only number eleven in the field of sixteen!!!!
I Love My “Job” !!
Off To Santa Pod With Trouble Racing Motorsports Pro Mod Corvette
By Camp Stanley, Stanley And Weiss Racing.com
At the end of this month of May I will again board a United Airlines flight and wing my way the opposite way ’round 
the world than I normally would go. I am off to The Main Event at Santa Pod Raceway outside of London. This will be a return for me to Santa Pod although I shall be in a different role this time. I will still be doing human interest writings for RPM Magazine, but I will also be in my element in the pits this time. Also I will be able to reacquaint myself with all my European friends I have made throughout my career.
Instead of just being a nosy tourist in amongst all the drag racers I will get to be a hands on worker bee person with the Trouble Racing Motorsports Pro Modified Corvette from Switzerland. Marcus Hilt has graciously offered me a chance to tweak some screws on his Mike Janis/JanCen hemi powered race car. Although Marcus will be at a VERY distinct disadvantage with the blower he will be running we both think it will give us a chance to work out a few other issues.
The Luck Bank At ADRL South Georgia
Taking The Race One At A Time In ADRL Extreme Pro Modified
Hagerstown, MD – Our return to the fantastically prepared and well run Hardee’s session at South Georgia 
Motorsports Park was quite the exercise in futility for our Appalachia on Steroids Pro Extreme Camaro. And that, My Friends is a classic understatement! After what we thought was a very successful test session at Maryland International Raceway the Saturday before the Easter Bunny arrived, we found out was a major misconception.
The ADRL draws the first two pairs out of the hat for each class in the first round of eliminations which eliminates the “I ain’t going up first, are you? NOPE!” syndrome. So as our luck would have it John Stanley was the first car drawn first round. And this as well is not usually good for us! At the hit of the throttle for the first qualifier John’s usually able steed went about 20 feet and blazed the tires. Luck bank draw, NEGATIVE number one. Then on the second qualifier young Cody Barklage came out of the right lane across the center line on two wheels and missed the back and/or the driver’s door of John’s Camaro by a bit. The fact that Cody missed John at all put us even more in the Luck Bank at that point!
So it was on to the third qualifier on Friday night and our time to shine! Not a snowball’s chance in Hades’ on this day! John left with a lazy car under him and no power to do anything except to pedal it and try to get to the other end. And when it was all said and done we were left number 16 on the ladder of sixteen! We called that one a wash at the Luck Bank.
We Were Just Kidding!!!
Sort Of …..
John Stanley’s race cars used to sport a decal on the hood that stated unequivocally: “No boxes, no juice, Just balls and boost!”
Now we have graduated into a new experimental arena with that infamous dental tool, laughing gas. We just hope we are not the ones being laughed at!!!
As these latest photos will show you, the proper power adder has been reinstalled on the Appalachia on Steroids Camaro for the upcoming season.
It has been enhanced with a few of Mike Wood of Nitrous Express’ brain children.
We are embarking off on a new area of additional power adders. OTG Racing is contributing to this new effort as well with some new storage vessels Brian has been in the process of creating, all attached in the car by some trick Pat Bennett Race Cars pieces.
Just don’t stand to close when John swaps feet in Houston!!! Who knows what could happen…
John Stanley and Pro Nitrous ???
The Nitrous Express Is Running At Stanley And Weiss Racing
The Stanley and Weiss Racing team have been hard at it on the updates to their 3.7 second, 202MPH Camaro for the upcoming 2010 ADRL racing season.
Some persons unknown sent these photos into His Royal Highness of Webmastering out in Cyberspace, USA.
Those who have followed John’s career over the years may remember that there was a time he was a member of the Prock’s Rocket brigade in his back half 68 Camaro he and his Dad had built him! It was all part of the learning experience and growing into more and more power.
John Stanley In The Top 20 On DragList.com
All Time Quickest 1/8th Mile Doorslammers
By: Draglist Author
A brilliant start to the season for Stanley and Weiss Racing is the recognition on The Draglist for last years efforts By John Stanley “a proven championship driver” starting with a brand new car and being the underdog with one of the non Hemi powered supercharged warriors taking top rankings of showmanship in the ADRL and Shakedown at E Town venues.
The Draglist is one of if not the most informational websites in the world, following racers and allowing racers to keep a dedicated resume’ of their racing online in a fun but detailed environment heavily watched by Bill Pratt and the rest of the team for quality and accuracy.
A Racer’s Work Is Never Done
The Stanley & Weiss racing team’s season is over and the beautiful 1968 ADRL Extreme Pro Modified Camaro is 
stashed away in John’s garage in a bazillion pieces
It is in the midst of its updates for the 2010 racing season.
We have dismantled the car front to back, top to bottom, updating some things and fixing others that we found wrong here and there.
Then it will be off to Mike Janis’ “Jan-Cen Racing Engines” speed emporium in Buffalo, NY to get the block and crank checked and to have Joe Janis work his magic on the non hemi heads! We are not changing much of anything for the new season. We just want to correct the few anomalies we had at the end of the year. You cannot do well going out first round time after time! BUT our plan for 2010 is to go rounds and to make our way to a final and win a race if the racing gods decide to smile upon us and we have earned it!
