If you’re looking to beat Pro Nitrous front runner Mike Castellana and believe that distracting the Westbury, N.Y.-based veteran is the best plan, you might want to try something else. Amidst a weekend filled with distractions and a near crash on Friday at the ADRL Dragstock in Rockingham, N.C., Castellana not only won, but did so in grand fashion.

Castellana beat teammate Burton Auxier in the final round of a race where he made clean sweep of the competition beginning in qualifying.

What distractions?

If you’re looking to beat Pro Nitrous front runner Mike Castellana and believe that distracting the Westbury, N.Y.-based veteran is the best plan, you might want to try something else. Amidst a weekend filled with distractions and a near crash on Friday at the ADRL Dragstock in Rockingham, N.C., Castellana not only won, but did so in grand fashion.

Castellana beat teammate Burton Auxier in the final round of a race where he made clean sweep of the competition beginning in qualifying.

What distractions?

Castellana qualified No. 1 even though his Camaro drifted dangerously close to the concrete retaining wall during the run. Castellana's 3.861 run would have been a world record if he could have backed it up in eliminations. He didn't.

As if that wasn’t enough, he was faced with the challenge of releasing one of the Al-Anabi/Awesome Motorsports crew chiefs on Friday evening, although that was not related to the aforementioned accident.

“You just take the situations as they come and remain focused on what you need to do,” Castellana said. “There are always distractions, but you always have to look past those if you want to be successful.”

The ability to block out the distraction and concentrate on the racing is according to Castellana on of his best attributes. It also helps to have two fo the three team cars in the final round.

“We were really in a win-win situation with two Al Anabi cars in the finals,” Castellana said. “We won, no matter which team turned the win light on.” 

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