Words by Ian Tocher and Jeff Burk
Photos by Gary Rowe and ADRL Communications

The numbers of fans and race teams shoehorned into Rockingham (NC) Dragway at each succeeding ADRL Dragstock just keep getting larger each year. 

At the 2009 version of the ADRL’s Dragstock at one point you simply could not have put one more person inside the fencing of the Rockingham Dragway facility. Virtually every seat and all of the standing room was FULL of race fans and each of the ADRL’s five “heads-up” classes had almost forty entries. It was a “happening” in the classic 1960’s music festival definition.

Before a standing-room-only crowd Jason Hamstra, in his Lencoglide/converter equipped Pro Extreme Camaro, won his second Pro Extreme race of the year, Pro Nitrous veteran Mike Castellana scored his second win of the last three events, Chuck Ulsch doubled his Extreme 10.5 win total in record-setting fashion, Extreme Pro Stock racer Doug Kirk won his second of the year and Pro Extreme Motorcycle rider Eric McKinney became the lone first-time winner.