Puerto Rico’s Raymond Matos recently purchased the 1970 Cuda of current Pro Nitrous championship contender Dennis Radford and picked up the event win with it in his career-first ADRL start after going 4.03 at 183.22 mph against Andy Jensen of Nescopeck, PA. Jensen earlier set a new ADRL elapsed time record of 3.87 seconds with his turbocharged 1968 Camaro.

In the Extreme 10.5 class, named for the relatively narrow 10.5-inch slicks the cars race on, second-generation racer Billy Glidden won for the third time this year. Glidden, from Whiteland, IN, also established a new E.T. record with his 4.14-second final-round win at 174.12 mph over Darrin Hoyle and his 2006 Cobalt from Taylorsville, NC.

Ron Procopio, from Wake Forest, NC, won his second Pro Extreme Motorcycle event of the season over Broxton, GA’s Carlos Wilkerson. Both riders covered the 660-foot distance in 4.28 seconds, but Procopio’s 165.90-mph ride reached the finish line eighth-thousandths of a second ahead of Wilkerson.

In a special-event Extreme Pro Stock race, Holdenville, OK’s Cary Goforth took the final-round win with a 4.12 pass at 175.50 mph in his 2008 Cobalt against Jeff Dobbins and his 2006 Escort from Wilmington, NC.

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ROCKINGHAM, NC - Gary White of New Market, Florida, made the first-ever Extreme 10.5 (XTF) pass in the “teens” this afternoon when he posted an unofficial 4.15-seconds lap over the Rockingham (NC) Dragway eighth mile during testing for the American Drag Racing League’s (ADRL’s) Hushpower Dragstock V.

Proving it was no fluke, White drove his turbocharged Titan Motorsports 2007 Scion to the provisional number-one spot with a potentially record-setting 4.18-seconds pass at 173.32 mph in first-round qualifying. He needs to back the record time up within one percent this weekend to make it an official ADRL record.

Later in the session, Billy Glidden and Steve Kirk Jr. made the quickest and fastest side-by-side XTF passes in history, as Glidden qualified second at 4.18 and 172.10 mph, while Kirk ran 4.19 at 177.42 to place third heading into two more qualifying rounds on Saturday, with eliminations to follow.

Potts Camp, Mississippi’s Bubba Stanton also looked strong in Pro Extreme practice with a 3.83 lap in Roger Henson’s “Widowmaker” ‘63 Corvette. He ran another 3.83-second pass at 197.36 mph in round-one qualifying to sit on top of the list heading into Saturday.

Reigning class champ Jason Scruggs placed second at 3.84 seconds and 195.73, with Bennie McDonald Jr. third after running a career-best 3.89 at 191.73 mph in his 1953 Corvette.

Pro Nitrous saw Street, Maryland’s Jim Halsey return to ADRL action after missing last month’s national event in Norwalk, Ohio, and he secured the provisional pole with a 3.94-seconds pass at 189.50 mph in his ’68 Camaro. Teammates Rickie Smith and Burton Auxier are currently runner-up and third going into the second qualifying session.

The ADRL’s two-wheeled class is currently led by Casey Stemper from Upper Marlboro, Maryland, who rode his 2008 Suzuki to a 4.25-second Pro Extreme Motorcycle lap at 168.68 mph.

Finally, Holdenville, Oklahoma, racer Dean Goforth went 4.12 at 174.93 mph with his 2007 GTO to lead the Extreme Pro Stock exhibition class, followed by Elijah Morton and Bert Jackson.

Saturday’s action includes two more qualifying sessions followed by eliminations for 16-car/bike fields in each class. Spectator gates open at 9 a.m. and qualifying resumes one hour later.