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Georgia Locals lead Touring Pros at ADRL’s Georgia Drags
Georgia’s own Mike Hill and Coodee Thomas rewarded the standing room only partisan crowd at South Georgia Motorsports Park (SGMP) winning two of the four professional categories (Extreme 10.5 and Pro Extreme Motorcycle) May 10, at the 4th annual ADRL Georgia Drags at Valdosta GA. Joining the local racers in victory lane were Texas touring Pro Extreme star Joshua Hernandez and Kentucky’s ADRL Pro Nitrous record holder Billy Harper.
Mike Hill, from Washington, GA, secured the fourth win of his ADRL Extreme 10.5 career May 10, in the 4th annual Hardee’s Georgia Drags at South Georgia Motorsports Park.
Hernandez qualified his Jim and Dave Oddy-tuned, National Guard-backed ’57 Chevy in the seventh spot and then raced past fellow Texans Gaylen Smith and Frankie “Madman” Taylor before getting around John Stanley in the semis to meet with 2006 IHRA Pro Mod World Champ Quain Stott and his ’63 Corvette in the finals.
Hernandez was on his game, taking a .026 advantage off the starting line and blasting to a 3.82-second pass at 195.87 mph over the SGMP eighth mile that also set low elapsed time for the weekend and gave Hernandez his second-straight ADRL national event win when Quain Stott suffered traction trouble and was forced to shut off early. Stott had reached the final round after qualifying in the 16th and final qualifying position.
Jim Oddy had told a TV personality Bret Kepner in a pre-finals interview that he planned to run a 4.82 and ran right on that number. According to Oddy, that 4.82 was harder to run than people thought. “We had 3,000-ft air and 111 grains of water,” he explained. “Not the best of conditions.”
Joshua Hernandez took over the ADRL Pro Extreme points lead with his second-straight win this season.