All is well in Kenny Doak’s world.

The Extreme 10.5 racer from Pipersville, Pa., returned to competition at Rockingham Dragway with a repaired race car and an overwhelming desire to showcase the car’s potential. It was a bit of unfinished business as Doak had qualified three weeks ago at the last ADRL event in Columbus, Ohio, only to have a shutdown accident render his car too damaged to race for the balance of the weekend.

Doak can thank chassis builder Gary Naughton for preparing the car for this weekend’s event.

“We had our work cut out for us that's for sure,” Doak said. “All new wheelie bars, chute pack, rebuilt the wheelie bar holder … had to put fresh tires on it, rebuilt the back of the car with the wing.  All the front end damage and I did all the glass work.”

All is well in Kenny Doak’s world.

The Extreme 10.5 racer from Pipersville, Pa., returned to competition at Rockingham Dragway with a repaired race car and an overwhelming desire to showcase the car’s potential. It was a bit of unfinished business as Doak had qualified three weeks ago at the last ADRL event in Columbus, Ohio, only to have a shutdown accident render his car too damaged to race for the balance of the weekend.

Doak can thank chassis builder Gary Naughton for preparing the car for this weekend’s event.

“We had our work cut out for us that's for sure,” Doak said. “All new wheelie bars, chute pack, rebuilt the wheelie bar holder … had to put fresh tires on it, rebuilt the back of the car with the wing.  All the front end damage and I did all the glass work.”

According to Naughton, the Chevelle returned from the body shop an hour before the scheduled Rockingham departure.

“I gotta thank Brian Petrie at Creative Customs, our body shop,” Naughton said. “He did a phenomenal job getting it back together for us.”

The team arrived at the race on Thursday and spent the spare time putting the finishing touches on the Chevrolet.

So how did the repaired racer do?

“We went right down the track just where we left off so we're hoping to throw a little more at it over the course of the weekend. It was quite the thrash.”

And because of that, all was fine in Naughton’s world.

Doak qualified 12th at Rockingham with a 4.301 elapsed time at 180.28 mph.  

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