ADRL President Kenny Nowling confirmed the sanctioning body is prepared to add another item to their eighth-mile menu in 2008. Nowling added the doorslammer friendly series will add the mountain motor division to their line-up for at least three events in 2008 and are planning a full-time program in 2009.

Thus is born the Extreme Pro Stock division.

“Our first priority is to build a home for the mountain motor Pro Stock cars,” Nowling confirmed. “I love those guys and I love the class. I think it is the right class for us now. I wasn’t so sure some years ago and we stepped forward with the Pro Extreme Motorcycle division.”

Nowling said the first of those three events could come in Budds Creek, Md., followed by Norwalk, Ohio, and Rockingham, NC. Of the three, only the Norwalk event conflicts an IHRA race. Special series to appear in at least three events…

ADRL President Kenny Nowling confirmed the sanctioning body is prepared to add another item to their eighth-mile menu in 2008. Nowling added the doorslammer friendly series will add the mountain motor division to their line-up for at least three events in 2008 and are planning a full-time program in 2009.

Thus is born the Extreme Pro Stock division.

“Our first priority is to build a home for the mountain motor Pro Stock cars,” Nowling confirmed. “I love those guys and I love the class. I think it is the right class for us now. I wasn’t so sure some years ago and we stepped forward with the Pro Extreme Motorcycle division.”

Nowling said the first of those three events could come in Budds Creek, Md., followed by Norwalk, Ohio, and Rockingham, NC. Of the three, only the Norwalk event conflicts an IHRA race.

“Nothing we are doing is out of any motivation to hurt the IHRA,” Nowling said. “I think the world of the IHRA. I have a business to run and obligations to Dave Wood and Tommy Lipar that supersedes everything except my family.

“I have an obligation to a group of racers out there who race in the mountain motor Pro Stock division and for whatever reason, they aren’t happy. Maybe the grass isn’t greener over here. We’ll find that out. I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure the class succeeds. It’s just business and I’m excited about it.”

At least one racer in the IHRA’s Pro Stock division is planning a weekend of racing the ADRL event in Radford, Va., instead of making the journey to the IHRA Rocky Mountain Nationals in Edmonton, Alb.

The Pro Stock racer, who is expected to make an official statement soon, will run his race car in the Pro Nitrous division minus the nitrous and the required weight.

Nowling also confirmed he is looking into Sport Compact as another addition.

“The sport compact is a little further on down the road,” Nowling said. “We just have to be careful that we don’t grow too big too fast. We just don’t want to outgrow ourselves.”

The IHRA’s Pro Stock division has been the only continuously fielded professional category since the sanctioning body was founded in 1971.