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Stepping It Up !! At ADRL Columbus

The Stanley and Weiss racing team headed on their merry way out the highway of life this past weekend to the next round of the ADRL race in Columbus, Ohio. For us it was a homecoming of sorts for the team as we had raced and went rounds at the track over a period of seven or eight years. We won our first NSCA Pro Street race there. Bob Molinari’s “Molinari Racing Products” clutch and all of Bob Malek’s “Friction Unlimited” discs we owned but we were unable to accomplish either! Great parts make up for dumb decisions.

We finalized our first NSCA Pro Street World Championship there. We also participated in all three of the Profiler Heads Shootouts as well with a runnerup coming in our last one to the infamous Marc Dantoni.

 But on Friday morning all the nostalgia had to be laid to rest and our current racing program concentration had to become the thought for the day. We have slowly but surely been working toward a successful combination that can compete through qualifying and on into eliminations. On our first qualifier Friday the “Appalachia on Steroids” Camaro posted a fine 3.872/195.96 right out of the box. This was good enough to place us number three on the qualifying ladder.

BUT it went the way of all good plans in short order. The night qualifier had one of those bad things happen that should not happen but does all the time. Enough said about that which is actually too much, but proved we are not as smart sometimes as we think we are! So for the last qualifier on Saturday afternoon the crew chief decided to see if he could get a little more aggressive in the bell housing which was definitely not the right thing to do!

So into eliminations we went from the number eleven spot with a first round matchup against Todd Tutterow in a rematch of Richmond. At the stripe John took the win over Todd with a fine 3.800/197.65!

The second round would pit John against young gun and past Minuteman winner Jason Hamstra. This time John’s win light came on yet again with a 3.830/195.08.

The computer was telling us we had an issue with the car but with no time to address it we stepped on it a bit for our semifinal matchup against perennial winner Josh Hernandez. And a great race it was to about the 475 foot mark! John had a car on the National Guard 57 Chevy at the 60 foot clocks and John still held the lead past the 330 until Josh lit the afterburners and buried our 3.841/193.99. All throughout the race we did all we could do to wreck

Thanks as always to all our supporters and well wishers! You make it easy to be us!

Special thanks go to our newest sponsor “The Beer Lady”, Krista of Ridgely Distributing of Keyser, West Virginia. She and her distributorship helped a lot of our friends “tip the can” over the weekend. Thanks Krista!

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