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Volume XI, Issue 8 August 12, 2009There were a couple of long-shot teams that qualified for the 16-car field that had a 4.125 bump spot. Hometown favorite John Deflorian driving for theBankston Brothers qualified 13th and went to the semifinals before red-lighting against Balooshi.He told one reporter that he was concentrating so hard on the tree that after he turned the pre-stage light on, a flashbulb went off in the crowd and hestepped off the clutch. “I knew it was a bad deal as soon as I did it,” said DeFlorian, who works at Jerry Haas Race Cars and built the car he drives atHaas’ shop at nights and on weekends.Another St. Louis group of Pro Mod racers led by car owner Dennis Price with Kansas City car builder Terry Murphy driving and ex-driver/ nitrous guruDonnie Little tuning, got in the field on their last qualifying shot with a respectable 4.125/177 effort.ADVERTISEMENTPN NOTESADVERTISEMENTThe Bankston Boys took the engine out of DeFlorian’scar after he had qualified when they blew up theengine in their primary car … Detroit racer BobRahain qualified at St. Louis with a respectable 4.09ET buthe also became the first powerglide-equippednitrous car under 4 seconds a week ago when he rana 3.99 last week at a race at Norwalk, Ohio … Everycar that qualified in Pro Extreme was either a ‘Vette ora Camaro … Nine of 16 qualifiers had a Reher-Morrison powerplant, three had Gene Fulton engines.EXTREME TEN-FIVE RESULTSIn the Extreme Ten-Five class Chuck Ulsch, drivinghis relatively new supercharged Hemi-poweredCamaro, was the dominant performer but he couldn’tconvert that performance into a class win despite thefact that he became the first Ten-Five car in the nationto make an 1/8th mile lap in less that four seconds atspeeds over 197 mph.The Minuteman trophy went to perennial winter BillGlidden. In the finals he drove his Mickey ThompsonTire-backed Pontiac straight down the track recordingone of his best ETs of the meet (4.076), which stillwouldn’t have covered Ulsch had tire spin not slowedhim to a way-off-the-pace 4.336.Despite his win, Glidden knows he has to find some power if he is going to compete against Ulsch for the rest of the season. “It’s nothing I did,” Gliddeninsisted. “If they hadn’t had trouble over there, there’s no way I can run with the kind of horsepower they’re making. So, yeah, I’m kind of surprised to winhere.”ADRL returns to St. Louis - Page 4 of 8 - DragRacingOnline.com