Brian Gahm has previous experience  racing a mountain motor Pro Stocker at Virginia Motorsports Park in Dinwiddie, Va. At the ADRL U.S. Drags II, all of that experience went out the window.

Faced with a track heated to a boiling point and abbreviated qualifying, Gahm did what he knew to win his third ADRL Minuteman trophy of the season. He beat second-generation Pro Stock driver Cary Goforth in the finals.

And, it was a close one … eighteen inches to be exact.

“The race track was different than what I had faced in the past … the temperature was up there about 140 degrees,” said Gahm in a post-race interview. “The team at VMP and the ADRL did one helluva job on the race track.”

Brian Gahm has previous experience  racing a mountain motor Pro Stocker at Virginia Motorsports Park in Dinwiddie, Va. At the ADRL U.S. Drags II, all of that experience went out the window.

Faced with a track heated to a boiling point and abbreviated qualifying, Gahm did what he knew to win his third ADRL Minuteman trophy of the season. He beat second-generation Pro Stock driver Cary Goforth in the finals.

And, it was a close one … eighteen inches to be exact.

“The race track was different than what I had faced in the past … the temperature was up there about 140 degrees,” said Gahm in a post-race interview. “The team at VMP and the ADRL did one helluva job on the race track.”

Gahm admitted that he and the team led by Jon Kaase and ace engine man Cliff Moore were behind the eight-ball all weekend. Losing the final qualifying session on Saturday didn’t help his cause.

“We were leery of the race track but we kept stepping up on it,” Gahm explained. “We tried not to get too crazy and I managed to drive pretty well all day.”

Gahm qualified fourth in the sixteen-car field. He worked his way to the final round by stopping Ned Katyran, John Montecalvo and Steve Boone. 

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