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The Appalachia on Steroids Pro Extreme Camaro team headed off to the Motorplex in Ennis, Texas for the first ADRL race of the 2011 season with great plans and aspirations. Thursday dawned another beautiful Texas day with a nice, bright, sunny day for all to enjoy. After setting up our pits and visiting with our peers it was off to the Fat Daddy’s bar and restaurant for a relaxing evening and a few quiet drinks amongst friends. Well as quiet as quiet can be amongst a building full of drag racers! It was an enjoyable time and I even participated in an interview with venerable duo of the Big Head and Bret radio show. And then it was back to the track for a good nights’ sleep in preparation for a long day of qualifying.

Friday dawned another beautiful, sunny day. We prepped the car for our first shot at the race track with a game plan of using the things that had served us well the last several years. In other words don’t do anything stupid! Be aggressive, BUT not too aggressive. It was imperative that we qualify for this race if we were even going to entertain any thoughts of another season of full time ADRL racing. The Camaro was back in the game as far as being able to do whatever we asked it to do. The first round netted us a 3.82 at 198 and some change for the number ten spot on the ladder. With the air not being the normal fall Texas type I felt that would stand us in good stead through the other three qualifying spots.

The second qualifier was not quite as good as John to do a quick pedal to a 3.89 with the blower leaving the manifold just past the traps in spectacular fashion, when we nipped a piston. After a mad thrash and replacing a piston and the head we were ready for the third qualifier just in time. It was so close time wise that Scottie and Jimmy had to the clutch in the staging lanes! When it was out turn yet again we elected to try something novel with the traction control after consulting with Shannon of Davis Technologies on the phone. We decided to turn it off and see if the tack would hold something I had been wanting to try. That was not a good move as the Camaro did it’s all to make John lift as it tried its hardest to spin the tires. John drove through it without having to lift but we did not improve. At the end of the day we had only lost two spots to the number twelve position. And then it was Saturday and after having a hearty breakfast we set into getting ready for the fourth round of qualifying and looking forward to eliminations Even though were several heavy hitters still on the outside looking in we felt fairly confident that our qualifying number would hold up should something go awry. There was no thought of a 3.7 bump with the air at 2700 feet! And then it rained. And then the sun came out. And then it rained, again. And then the sun came out, again. And so it went throughout the morning and into the afternoon. There were several calls for “Extreme Pro Sock to the lanes” and “Pro Extreme Motorcycles to the lanes” only to be followed by more and then it rained.

And then the sun came out. The track prep people worked their hardest to save the track from going away but it was all to no avail as Mother Nature won another battle with the ADRL in 2010! The race was officially canceled when a terrible hailstorm struck north and west of Ennis and the rain just kept coming and going. So now it will be on to the first ADRL race in 2011 at Houston, Texas if we should decide to make that trip. The eliminations ladder has us paired against Mick Snyder in the first round of eliminations with the Snyder Motorsports 3.60 Corvette. There are no gimmies in the ADRL!

We want to thank our international friends for traveling all the way to hang out with us and we are sorry that they could not see the elimination rounds. Maybe next year…

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The 2010 racing season is what I speak of. We are almost at the end of one of the most disastrous racing seasons we have ever had! And through it all we kept kicking, fighting, biting and gouging all the demons that descended on Stanley & Weiss Racing this year.

The final, WE HOPE bit came last Saturday as we prepared to leak check the motor before going into our before race preparations for Ennis, Texas.

We had a spark plug in one cylinder a bit hard to get out and when it came out the end of it was beat like a red-headed step child!

We pulled the head off and found that we had dropped the head of ANOTHER valve and it in turn wrecked the intake valve, both valve seats and the piston. This is really getting old I'm telling you! And the two spare heads were on the spare motor under the bench. And that is all we have unlike some big hitters. So straight onto the phone to Mike Janis, our engine repair guru, extraordinaire. We coordinated getting the heads to Buffalo for Monday morning via another racer on the way up.

Joe Janis worked his magic and both heads were back to us on Friday and back in their rightful place. The JanCen crew sure knows the meaning of the word "service"! And big thanks have to go to Ken at Motorsports Unlimited for getting us all the bits to Joe so he could make our heads as good as new. Next stop, Ennis, Texas!!! It's the first ADRL race of 2011 and it can't get any worse!!!

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We have just returned to The Hill from running at Dave Hance's large outlaw race at the famed Englishtown Raceway Park in New Jersey. This race was a bit less stressful for the team as a whole since there were no point's scenarios to worry about. It was actually one of our favorite types of races. Show up! Shut up! And race! Just like the Canadian Fastest Street Car Races of old.

The Shakedown was an 1/8th mile race where there are no rules outside of safety, just like the ADRL. Although the car count was very disappointing, there were still nine cars entered. The field was led by Mike Stawicki with us slotted into the number two spot with a 3.825 pass.

That pass netted us the chore of replacing a piston that we nipped when the killer race track had a lot more teeth than I anticipated down track.

Said part being replaced, we added some more clutch to the car and went up for the second qualifier. The added clutch did nothing for us except shake the tires. With that run aborted and after looking over the field of qualified cars we felt we would be pretty safe with our number two qualifying effort. Knowing that we had never been a 3.72, we were not comfortable trying to do so in the killer Etown air. Although there were three turbo cars, all of which were more than capable of making three second runs we felt this was our best option.

Sunday dawned cool and sunny and created a great atmosphere for the race. But by the time eliminations started the clouds started to roll in and there was the threat of rain for later in the day.

Our first round opponent was a nitrous car that was piloted by young man from Georgia "Adam Garner" in another Camaro Pro Mod.

Even though the Appalachia on Steroids Camaro rattled the tires enough to unsettle the car, John gave it a quick pedal and we took the win light with 3.88 at a little over 200mph! This was our first 200 this year and only the second one with the car. It told us we were getting back into the power range where we needed to be.

With lane choice going to us in the second round we decided to run the right lane because we knew that we would be placed there if the number one qualifier got through to the final. In another parts saver move we elected to do more than leave the starting line, click it in second gear and shut it off.

For the final round we changed some things around in the car figuring we might be able to give the NY Firebird a run for the money. But it wasn't to be! When John left the clutch out the car didn't go two inches before smoking the tires when a dry sump oil line broke! All the while our opponent only went 3.89 for the win… And that's the type of year we have been having. But it is good to know that we can rely on our trusty AJ Olds to stand us in good stead with the juggernaut of hemis we will see in Dallas in a few weeks.

We had two .930 sixty foots in the two elimination rounds which were our best ever. This tells us the car itself is working just fine again, As long as I do not get to cautious! We took our accolades with style as a father and son team that keeps running through the ranks of supercharged pro mods.

Next up for the team will be the first ADRL race for 2011 in Dallas, Texas October 22 and 23. We have decided to go to Dallas and run the first race of 2011 and then weigh our options on running the entire ADRL season next year. As always, wish us luck!

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In one sense we were surely glad to have the 2010 season completed this past weekend. But on the other hand we were not quite ready to "go quietly into the night"! We have had one of those drag racing seasons that would test the mettle of any human being! But we never quit! We never gave up! We persevered throughout this dismal season with our heads held high. When the bell was rung Saturday afternoon at the beautiful Summit Motorsports Park we had ended our first full season in the ADRL.

We have finished 2010 in the number 10 points position. Although this left us 2 spots away from the Holy Grail of the ADRL, The Battle for the Belts, we were very proud of how well we have done this year. This is very special to us as "privateers" racing in a sea of greenbacks! To end the season in that position out of EIGHTY FIVE point's earners is great in our eyes!

As a team, we feel very good about the opportunities that 2011 holds in store for us. We also feel very confident should we make the decision to chase that Holy Grail once more. That will be a decision that my friend and partner William C. (Axle) Weiss and I shall make over dinner and cocktails in the not so distant future.

Meanwhile it is all about getting ready for The Shakedown at E Town this coming weekend. And working away we are! When that construction barrel orange "Appalachia on Steroids" Camaro roles out from under the Englishtown tower, Vinnie Knapp will be watching us with pride, thinking about how far we have come!

We are there to take it to 'em!
Wish us luck!

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"Sucks to be us." was my blunt assessment to Competition Plus.com on being outside the 16-car field after three Pro Extreme qualifying sessions for the ADRL's prestigious Dragstock VII on Friday at Rockingham Dragway.

We don't very often blow our stuff up and almost never, ever knock the blower off of it, but we did a good job of all of it in one go yesterday in that second qualifying session. We lost two cylinders on the run, one of them at 1.6 seconds in and the other 1.8 seconds later. Then we managed to blow the blower off it at 3.03 in! And John still put up a 3.93 lap at only 163.51 mph.

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We got back, checked the damage and got right into fixing the blower issues. That being completed we were checking the driver's side valve lash and found out that an intake valve seat had fallen out. Then we knew why the blower left the manifold! This was where the carnage started. So, we fixed that by putting on one of our spare heads, and then it was on to the other side for a valve adjustment. There we found that a head had fallen off a valve on that side. So we changed that head with our last spare piece!

Then when we went out for the night qualifier in the great air I got way to aggressive inside the bellhousing! When John swapped feet the Camaro went about 15 feet and rattled itself almost all the way to the next county! So there we were qualified at # 19 in the ADRL's most prestigious race. BUT never, ever sell us short! Never, ever consider us dead and buried!

When Saturday's lone qualifying session came around we were ready to go with a borrowed blower belt from those great ADRL sponsors, LenMar Motorsports! The racing surface appeared to be in top notch shape even though the clouds were in abundance. The first cars put up some great numbers which gave us confidence that our last second shot would be a good one yet again! BUT then of course it had to rain! And then it stopped, the track was dry and we were the second pair after the aforementioned LenMar 57 Chevy. And Gaylen did for me exactly what I asked him to PLEASE do! He gave me a set of 3.67 tracks for John to run right down the race track in!

At the flash of green John was off and gone beside Alex Hossler until Alex turned the paint brown on the side our car when he went by in the traps! But it was all good, because as a team we had succeeded yet again by breaking into a field at the last possible chance, we hope. Now all that is left is to go to Norwalk in two weeks and see that none of the 8-10 cars left to make qualifying attempts do just that. As long as our hard work and perseverance pay off and we are in the field, it's GAME ON from there!!!

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The European drag racing scene consists of FIA rounds all over Europe and to become the FIA champion you must be committed to traveling very long distances to race. For some to spend 30 plus hours on a ferry is not uncommon! And the costs are astronomical at any exchange rate or any currency.

I had committed to travel to the FIA round at the famous racing facility in Hochenheim, Germany with Marcus Hilt's Trouble Racing team, again. Our goal was to see about getting the car, the driver and the crew all dialed in and on the same page. Marcus has a great, dedicated crew and the team just needed some outside help in putting all the pieces in their correct places. It does take all three, part and parcel to make an operation work and work well. Marcus had fitted a late model Lenco between the frame rails of his TM 63 Split window to replace the 35 year old one that he had destroyed at the Santa Pod round in June. And JanCen Engines in Buffalo, NY had repaired the leftover head damages from Marcus' blowup at Hockenheim in 2009. So all that was left to do was to fit the bigger fuel pump to the car and then see if the car could go from one end to the other under power.

The first qualifying round on Friday proved that gremlins still abounded in the car. Marcus depressed the clutch to arm the two step and it did not come on when a relay decided to stop working. With that issue being diagnosed and repaired the Punisher was ready yet again to try and make a full pass. With a decent 60 foot for a Littlefield blower at 20 over amongst all the DMPE pieces the Vette set sail till 3.6 seconds when the burst panel did it' s job! ONE more anomaly had shown up! The clip that holds the fuel shutoff cable broke and allowed the fuel shutoff to slowly go closed. All air and no fuel does not a happy combination make, so the burst panel ended that run as well.

Saturday dawned a beautiful day and the entire team was ready to finally show the true potential of the Swiss Pro Mod! The car left the line well and appeared to be doing a fairly good job of making its' way down the track until it nosed over and gave up an 8 second time slip. This was starting to really get to all of us! How many things can go wrong was heard from one and all!

When the crew tore into the car they quickly found the reason why the engine had stopped running 3 seconds in! A broken timing belt was the first sign of things not being happy internally. And after further diagnosis Marcus and the crew discovered not one but TWO broken connecting rods! And that ended yet another run at that elusive 6 second pass all were looking for! Although they were all dejected as is to be expected, the long faces did not stay long! They had all done their part and mechanical gremlins had been the cause of their demise, not any people failures.

So then there was nothing left to do but have another great meal in The Punisher pits! That is the one and only bad thing about working with this team. I would weigh 200 pounds if I ate with them all the time. They really, really eat well and I have enjoyed some great dishes that have names I can't pronounce. It is great to see and great to be a part of the camaraderie on this team. As I said earlier people are ALWAYS the key to success. So it will all have to be done again in 2011. There are no tracks for a Pro Mod in Switzerland so it looks like England again in the spring.

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I'm an old trucking guy from way back, just like my friend Roger Henson, although with a whole lot less money! For the most part I enjoy the peace and solitude of the open road and as John and Tracy like to tell me, it is where I dream up all kinds of things.

And I must admit I do come up with some doozies! Some of them are really great reminders of things we may need to change. And some of them may perhaps be a better way of putting something where it is easier found. My do to lists after after a long trip such as a Dallas or Houston can sometimes be what appears to be an entire trash can of sticky notes!

And then there are the times where I wish I was the one riding in an airplane! The return trip from St Louis was one of those times. As I was motoring along the highway of life on Sunday morning I noticed a strange smell like brakes smoking and heard a faint screeching sound coming and going. When I was able to I pulled over to the shoulder and walked all around my trusty Mack, Clifford the Big Red Dog. I looked all around front to back and could find nothing wrong. So I attributed the smell to another truck and headed off yet again. But was I ever wrong!!! Being the super trucker I like to be I was in the passing lane cruising at 75 miles an hour when I suddenly discovered part one of my dilemma. The right front tire blew out with a thunderous KAPOW! Now that was fun and I had a brief flashback of the last time I blew a front tire on a Mack! That time gave me a free thrill ride to the bottom of a mountain gully coupled with a free ambulance ride!

I got Clifford stopped on the shoulder of the road without any drama and when I got out to assess the damage I found the inner front wheel bearing had given it up. Luckily I was by an exit with a truck stop across the way. Although they could not do anything for me I did find a nice fellow who was on call at a truck repair facility who called me a very reasonable wrecker service called Pardoe's! With nothing able to be done on Sunday I settled in on the back lot of Greenforks Alignment. I had no idea at the time I was going to be spending several days there! On Monday the very efficient staff at Greenforks set out trying to find me a spindle to replace the ruined one. There were none available in any of the truck salvage yards anywhere close and a new one could come from southern Ohio for Tuesday morning for the paltry sum of $1400 plus dollars! And since we are not my buddy Roger I opted to put that process on hold.

I called my friend and the maintenance engineer behind helping us keep Clifford on the road, Dave Kline at D&D Truck Repair and Towing. He has just about anything and everything for a Mack that you can fathom. Sure enough the elusive spindle was in stock and in no time Dave had it off, cleaned up, and boxed up and his bride Diane, the other half of D&D had it on UPS red label to me! What great friends and sponsors they are! So on Tuesday morning the driver of the Big Brown Truck arrived with the part to get Clifford back among the living. Then with all the bits and pieces in place and my very reasonable invoice paid to the Greenforks people I was finally back to looking at life through the windshield! It didn't take long for Clifford to hit his stride and back on our hill in Appalachia we were Tuesday evening.

My only thoughts now are: "What's next?" These trials and tribulations are really starting to get old!

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Our friend, that fickle woman Ms Lady Luck appears to have deserted us. We survived the first races of the 2011 season with a lot of her magic. And after St Louis with the rained out Topeka race included we knew she was off and gone to help some other wayward soul. With our spare motor planted between the frame rails on the off weekend between Houston and St Louis we were ready once again to give our fellow ADRL warriors a run for their money. Or so we thought!

On our first qualifier John informed me that he had no oil pressure at the end of the burnout. So for the first time in our short ADRL career we pushed the car off to the side after John backed up through the water box. Strike ONE!

On our second attempt John had to pedal the Camaro when it started to light the tires at the top of low gear. Strike TWO!

But on our third qualifier we thought we were finally able to see the light at the end of the tunnel! When we rolled out from under the tunnel at Gateway, we were the slowest non qualified car in the field. That night session was nothing short of astounding for the ADRL crowd! They saw the ADRL's second quickest ever Pro Extreme field created! And it was done in August racing next to the Mississippi river! In the Missouri night time on that Friday night an amazing, unheard of FIVE Pro Extreme racers recorded times of 3.78! We were one of them when John piloted the Appalachia on Steroids Camaro to nearly an all time best run of a 3.78 with a ONE! The only sad thing about it is that it left us qualified in the SEVENTH spot! That meant that were 3.70 cars in the bottom half of the field! But we had now qualified again amongst the Big Boys with our little team that could! We had become yet again the quickest non-hemi car in the field. No strikes, no balls, just a good old qualifying run!

But on Saturday morning before the last qualifier that witch woman deserted us yet again! Scott realized that our brand spanking new oil pump had a seal leaking and oil was dripping out the front of it! Oh boy, joy of joys, an oil pump seal was needed in Missouri before lunchtime on a Saturday! How was that going to work we had to wonder. Then magically down out of the clouds our lady friend appeared to tempt us yet again that she still had a place in her heart for us.

Our newfound friends, the Rister clan that we met at the Martin race were from within 20 minutes of the race track and operated an automotive repair shop. Mrs. Candy Rister, being the parts procurer for the family run business spent a lot of time on her cell phone till she found us a seal at a local Carquest parts store! You really have to love Carquest! If you need it, invariably they will have it! So off Mr. Axle Weiss and I went to find this place and find it we did without getting lost ONCE!

With the car fixed and the team ready to race, to the staging lanes we went for our first round matchup with the venerable one, Quain Stott. This time it was our turn to have lane choice, so again we did what we did in Houston, we raced in the lane Quain was not in! And this time he got the win light when that fickle woman got to us yet again! The two cars left the line welded together but it was over right after that. The throwout bearing collar broke, turned in the bellhousing which never left the clutch release!

We are planning on a really nice seance session with this Lady Luck female person in the not so distant future before Rockingham. We plan on lots of candles, lots of incense and anything else it may take to get her back in our corner yet again! We have even thought of calling Stan Allen or one of them other creole area boys to recommend a good voodoo lady to help us out!

But we shall persevere! We shall not give up the fight! Never! Ever! We are in this till the bitter end!

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The second trip to Houston in 2010 for an ADRL race was most definitely a lousy experience! It was bound to happen to us sooner or later, the odds were in fate's favor. The July journey to Texas started off just fine but started to go wrong at the outset of the second day's journey. While cruising along the highway of life in a two lane construction zone I hit a piece of steel in the middle of the road when there was no place to go and no way to avoid it. Luckily I didn't have a blowout! At that time we didn't! But I did down the road an hour or so. ON THE TRAILER! So out into the 105 degree heat I went and changed the tire.!

And then there was the racing itself. We had not yet qualified for the first Houston race and with everyone only getting one shot at it we failed to make it in! There went our qualifying streak we were so proud of! But we also had our car magnet facts reinforced yet again when Jason Scruggs ended up bowling for cones out of the right lane. And that was a close one yet again! We were all glad it was a matter of two experienced drivers paying attention or it could have been ugly! The orange car magnet was in the house, AGAIN!

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The race weekend in beautiful Heartland Park in Topeka, Kansas sure wasn't one to write home about after all three of Friday's qualifying sessions were completed.

We found ourselves and our normally potent race car on the outside looking in! We were number NINETEEN out of a field of THIRTY! So much for the headline at the end of the Martin race. We may have thought we were back but on Friday night it wasn't looking so good!

A lot of Thinking 101 went on and the crew spied what they thought may be the issue Friday night and then Mr. Bigtime Crew Chief came to the same conclusion on Saturday morning while the crew were still snuggled in their beds like bugs in a rug. He, being ME had made a really Dummy 101 tilt error mistake when making some mathematical calculations. That's right, he can't count! But as an Australian racer used to tell me: "if you did it-put your hand up." And I have both hands up and am standing on a ladder for one and all to see!

So all that was left to do was to go into Saturday morning's last shot at qualifying and see if anything had been retained about racing a blown door car. John carefully staged the car and not willing to risk anything to chance, when the yellow flashed he waited on Scottie to bang on the car as they planned to be his signal to leave! The Appalachia on Steroids Camaro did what it had wanted to do all day Friday. Went straight down the race track and put a number on the board that should solidify them in the elite field of sixteen. All that was left was to let the other fifteen cars make their runs and we would know. And when the smoke and dust settled we were "in the show" in the fifteenth spot. Anyone in ADRL Pro Extreme drag racing will tell you that the winner can come from anywhere in the field!

Which brings us to the headline: "John done made him mad!!!" followed by: "We are in so much TROUBLE........" Our number fifteen slot allowed us to be paired against the Texas Tornado Terror, his-own-self: Frankie "Madman" Taylor. And his moniker aptly suits him in this instance. He told John Stanley that not only was he going to leave on him, BUT he was going to beat him like a red headed stepchild! He claimed for one and all to hear for miles around that he owed John one!

But alas it was not to be; Mother Nature frowned on the ADRL along with their racers and fans by dumping copious amounts of liquid sunshine on them midway through the first round of ADRL Pro Extreme eliminations. And now Mr "Madman" is going to have to wait till the rescheduled race in St Louis to fulfill his prophecy!

All we can say is be careful what you wish for..... Stay Tuned !!

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In the early winter months of 2010 the drag racing team known as Stanley & Weiss Racing decided to out source a new design for a t-shirt to sell to our many loyal fans worldwide. We settled on Tyler Clark's WickedGrafixx t-shirt emporium as our newest supplier of a quality shirt that anyone would be proud to wear.

Camp and Tyler burned up the internet and the phone lines over a 2 month period tweaking and perfecting what became a GREAT design for our newest shirts Showing off Our ADRL Pro Extreme Camaro! While Tyler provided the insight to the design, Camp provided the essence of the team and all were melded into a design that said much about who the Hillbillies from Appalachia really were.

These shirts were debuted at the ADRL race in Houston in March to rave reviews! There were orders via mail and phone for them from literally around the world!

And then later there was a new avenue opened for the WickedGrafixx / Stanley & Weiss Racing partnership. The ADRL powers that be had very wisely asked that all the teams wear at least a collared shirt while on the starting line. Now the hillbillies had been doing this for some years and had carried over their Pro Street uniform shirts to the ADRL. The edict from the ADRL prompted them to revisit this issue and the decision was made to go all out and order some REAL, DOUBLE THROWDOWN, PROFESSIONAL crew shirts. There was no one besides Tyler Clark's WickedGrafixx emporium to do this after our good friend Steve Hall had a very serious bout with a cancer bug.

Tyler had never done a crew shirt before but was game to give it a whirl. So Tyler and Camp set off to design a shirt befitting of the world class Pro Extreme Camaro piloted by John Stanley. And after weeks that became months the finished product was delivered to The Hill in Appalachia and then they were hung in the trailer with care for their debut at the ADRL race in Topeka, KS.

And on that bright, sunny, hot Friday morning they were worn and profiled for all to see by the crew that maintain the Appalachia on Steroids ADRL Pro Extreme Camaro Pro Mod. And unsure of the response they would receive we played it very low key while in the staging lane for first round. So you can imagine what at first was astonishment and then instantly became pride when the two marketing ladies from the ADRL made their way down the staging lanes and stopped to compliment Camp on how well they thought the new crew shirts were. And then they informed him that everyone who had a vote had agreed as well and that they were to be given the Best Appearing Crew award for the Topeka race! How cool was that? Really, really cool we think!

And now Tyler Clark has to think about getting completely out of the crew shirt business. This being his first and only design and being a winner instantly says that if he quits now he will go out with a record unequaled by anyone else in his industry. But knowing him like we do that will most definitely not happen!

Thank you Tyler, you have done well by us!

The Appalachia on Steroids Camaro piloted by John Stanley has not had as good a year as the results would show. Two aborted qualifying shots in Houston garnered nothing educational for the team from the hills of Western Maryland. And then it rained and rained and rained some more! So it was on to Valdosta where more rain bright and early on Saturday morning probably saved their butts yet again! Then Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Thani "KH" handed them a first round win with -.002 red light. Remember that color for later on!!! The second round was lost to the bad to the bone Corvette piloted by Wild Wes Johnston running out of the Taylor Brothers Speed Emporium in Texas.

And then it was on to Richmond, Virginia for round number four of this war called ADRL Pro Extreme drag racing When the dust settled after four rounds of qualifying John found himself in the 11th qualifying spot and paired with the second team car of the Al Anabi juggernaut piloted by the legendary Todd Tutterow. At the flash of the lights on the Christmas tree John was off and gone like a shot. Meanwhile Todd suffered an uncharacteristic shake issue that saw him end up in John's lane automatically handing the win over to John R. Stanley! The second round saw him paired against Jason Scruggs who is a bad, bad man! John's jitters from staging against one the men who made the ADRL what it has become got the best of him and he left a red light hanging on the tree handing the win over to a tire shaking Jason. Now do you remember that color from above??? Don't forget it yet!

So off we went last weekend to the beautiful facility in Martin, Michigan hoping we had solved the chassis issues which had been plagueing us all year to date. After the rain decided to leave for the day on Friday we ran a 3.93 and then a 3.92 qualifier all the while annihilating the clutch. Saturday morning the team awoke to more raindrops which finally gave way to blue sunny skies. So needless to say the last qualifier was pitched and into eliminations John went, head held high from his number 13 qualifying position. His first round opponent was Bad-Fast 211 mph Wild Wes Johnston yet again! But today was not to be Wes' day!

At the flash of the green Wes's mount left him stranded on the starting with a broken blower pulley while John screamed down the race track. Next up was the aptly named Frankie "Madman" Taylor, the driver of the Corvette tuned by his brother Paul. And again the lucky luck bug bit John yet again! John left with Frankie but it was all downhill for The Madman just past the 60 foot clocks where his potent Corvette succumbed to some horrific tire shake and had to abort the run while John was cruising through with 3.83 at almost 200 mph!

So there sat John Stanley paired yet again in the semi-finals against Josh Hernandez. And for the trivia buffs out there in cyberspace, this was to be John's 3rd semi final appearance in three years of ADRL drag racing. It has been one a year for three years and they have all been against that wicked 57 Chevrolet MMA Fight Me Team who John has never been able to get a win light against! So after great burnouts and careful staging the two warriors were left to settle it on the race track! But it was to become three for three for the affable Texan against John. This time John left a light that was so red on the tree that the police were giving out tickets in Kalamazoo! But all was not lost here. John learned to never anticipate a tree again. The starter will get YOU just about every time.

Even though we had lost another chance at a final round race and a potential win the ADRL Extreme Pro Modified Camaro has found its form in the chassis department again. All that was required for the repair was for the Crew Chief to reinsert the gray matter that had fallen out from between his ears. The formidable crew of Scott and Jimmy are doing their part in making the little AJ Olds wedge motor sing like a demon against those BAE hemis. A 3.75 time slip on the last run gave the crew cause to be optimistic that they have found their form yet again.

And now they are hoping that they can find the keys to that yellow brick road in Topeka, Kansas in a few weeks!

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A brilliant start to the season for Stanley and Weiss Racing is the recognition on The Draglist for last years efforts By John Stanley "a proven championship driver" starting with a brand new car and being the underdog with one of the non Hemi powered supercharged warriors taking top rankings of showmanship in the ADRL and Shakedown at E Town venues.

The Draglist is one of if not the most informational websites in the world, following racers and allowing racers to keep a dedicated resume' of their racing online in a fun but detailed environment heavily watched by Bill Pratt and the rest of the team for quality and accuracy.

The standing of John Stanley is one that should be prized by all, "The little Camaro that could" showed well after only a few hits on the car it ran an astounding 1/8 Mile ET: 3.765 @ 202.06 at Rockingham ADRL 09/09.

You can find the statistics of both John Stanley and all your favorite teams under the heading they so perfectly described as "Outlaw Pro Mods, Aussie Top Doorslammers, Super Chevy Nitro Coupes". Throw out the rule book baby, these are the fastest doorslammers in the world! See John Stanleys Ranking On DragLists All Time Quickest And Fastest Here:

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The Team of Stanley and Weiss Racing will be looking sharper than ever with new Crew Shirts featuring the scary skull and crossbones with the signature flames found on the Camaro Pro Mod. The team will be debuting their new garb at all the ADRL associated races and other Outlaw Pro Modified Racing Venues in 2010 making sure you will notice them at each and every race.

Stateline Sporting Goods takes on the challenge of providing these awesome shirts and was established in 1979 as a small part time family business. Over the past years, Stateline has become known worldwide and is located in Athens, Alabama. The Association of cool looking wear and the bad, blown Camaro will surely make you sit up and take notice of this championship team in the coming series of races to be announced soon.

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