Nobody likes waiting in line only to be told time’s up before it’s their turn at the front. Unfortunately, that’s happened during Friday-afternoon’s test-n-tune sessions at the last couple of national events staged by the Flowmaster American Drag Racing League (ADRL) presented by the National Guard. The staging lanes have been crowded with racers from all four ADRL pro classes when the inevitable cut-off finally comes in order to start the opening round of qualifying on time.

So, ADRL Vice President of Competition “Bubba” Corzine is instituting a change for the 4th annual LenMar Motorsports ADRL World Finals scheduled for Oct. 24-25 at the Texas Motorplex in Ennis, Texas. He expects the change will speed up the process and reduce the number of teams affected when the lanes close to testing.


Nobody likes waiting in line only to be told time’s up before it’s their turn at the front. Unfortunately, that’s happened during Friday-afternoon’s test-n-tune sessions at the last couple of national events staged by the Flowmaster American Drag Racing League (ADRL) presented by the National Guard. The staging lanes have been crowded with racers from all four ADRL pro classes when the inevitable cut-off finally comes in order to start the opening round of qualifying on time.

So, ADRL Vice President of Competition “Bubba” Corzine is instituting a change for the 4th annual LenMar Motorsports ADRL World Finals scheduled for Oct. 24-25 at the Texas Motorplex in Ennis, Texas. He expects the change will speed up the process and reduce the number of teams affected when the lanes close to testing.

“What we’re going to do is eliminate the open-door policy for testing,” Corzine stated. “We’ll run the test session according to class, starting with Pro Extreme Motorcycle, then Extreme 10.5, Pro Nitrous and Pro Extreme, just like in qualifying or eliminations.”

Corzine further explained each class will not have a specified time or arbitrary amount of time to test, other than competitors having to be in the lanes and ready to go before the first pair of the entries from their class fires up on the starting line.

“We’ll make the call for the bikes maybe half an hour before testing begins at noon and once that first engine starts up—whether there’s three of them there or 33—no more motorcycles will be allowed in the lanes until we’ve run through the whole program,” he said. “The same will go for all the car guys. For example, we’ll be calling Pro Nitrous all the way through Extreme 10.5 testing, but once we start our first Pro Nitrous car, anyone from Pro Nitrous who’s still in the pits might as well stay there because they’ll have to wait until we get all the way back to them.”

Other than the usual time constraints, no limit will be placed on how often the cycle can be repeated, so teams that want to make more than one pass should have ample opportunity and those planning only one test shot will be able to better predict when their final chance will come.

“We realize there’s almost always going to be someone left in the lanes when time runs out, especially if we have an unexpected delay for something like track clean-up, but this should cut down on the number of teams left disappointed,” Corzine said. “They’ll all know now that they have to get up there while their own class is testing and not wait until the last hour or so just like everyone else is doing.”