Mother Nature has blessed the ADRL with a 10th event on the 2010 schedule.

Rain, cooling temperatures, and the prospect of strong crosswinds on Sunday forced the postponement of the season-opening ADRL Universal Technical Institute Dragpalooza VI at Houston Raceway Park. And, brought about the inclusion of a tenth event to be run July 23rd and 24th, which will include the final qualifying for the Pro Extreme class and eliminations for all classes.

Kenny Nowling, President and CEO of the ADRL, announced to a gathering of drivers the ADRL's plans. In previous years, when the final day of an event was postponed it was completed at the next regularly scheduled event.

Working for the owners of Houston Raceway Park, Nowling was able to put together the extra event giving teams already on property the chance to make the tow back to HRP more palatable.

Mother Nature has blessed the ADRL with a 10th event on the 2010 schedule.

Rain, cooling temperatures, and the prospect of strong crosswinds on Sunday forced the postponement of the season-opening ADRL Universal Technical Institute Dragpalooza VI at Houston Raceway Park. And, brought about the inclusion of a tenth event to be run July 23rd and 24th, which will include the final qualifying for the Pro Extreme class and eliminations for all classes.

Kenny Nowling, President and CEO of the ADRL, announced to a gathering of drivers the ADRL's plans. In previous years, when the final day of an event was postponed it was completed at the next regularly scheduled event.

Working for the owners of Houston Raceway Park, Nowling was able to put together the extra event giving teams already on property the chance to make the tow back to HRP more palatable.

“I have such an admiration for our competitors and the sacrifices that they make, to have them tow all the way back across the country to finish up a race – we have obligations to the sponsors, to our track partner – but our obligations to our racers supercede all that. To bring them back here, now they have financially twice the incentive. The beauty of it is they are not traveling any extra. It is no different than if we had already scheduled a second event at Houston Raceway Park on July 23rd and 24th.”

Nowling got together with Seth Angel in his motorhome and worked out the deal Saturday morning before making the announcement. They looked at a calender, found a date and the deal was done on a handshake.

While there was some grumbling during the announcement, the same drivers who grumbled the loudest thanked Nowling for the decision before leaving the meeting.

“We've paid out debt to Mother Nature here in Texas so hopefully she will smile on us in July.”

Tickets from the current event will be honored in July and those who paid for parking on this Saturday can use the parking pass for either Friday or Saturday in July. Additionally new tickets will be handed out for the July event and the nice thing about an ADRL ticket – they're free.