Three race teams christened new race cars at last weekend’s ADRL Flowmaster Dragstock IV at Rockingham Dragway. This is the most prestigious event on the National Guard ADRL schedule, as well as the final points-earning event for the Battle of the Belts, which will take place at the Texas Motorplex.

After sitting out the last few events on the ADRL tour, LenMar Motorsports’ Gaylen Smith and Mark Eddins return to Pro Extreme competition with a brand new 1957 Chevy, built by Tim McAmis Race Cars, that they’ve aptly named the “HelAir.” Upon delivery of the slick new piece on August 28, the next stop was longtime team sponsor Chad “Critter” Mahone’s paint booth at House of Hot Rods in Mansfield, Texas, so Mahone could apply his wizardry to yet another of LenMar’s fleet of award-winning race cars.

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The classic Chevy was shaken down on Wednesday with some 330 foot runs at Texas Raceway, before its competitive debut during qualifying at Rockingham. The LenMar team, with crew chief Brandon Pesz and car chief Charlie Wooten, had previously campaigned in ADRL and TOPMA competition with a Jeffers Pro Cars-built 1970 Barracuda. The ’70 Barracuda featured a 526ci PSI Screw-blown Hemi combination, which will likely find its way between the frame rails of the eye-catching HelAir.

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Al-Anabi Racing, which has become a dominant force in the ADRL this season, unloaded two new 1968 Camaros at “The Rock”, for teammates Khalid Al Balooshi and Von Smith. Balooshi, who has advanced to two final rounds this season and currently sits fourth in the Pro Nitrous standings, will wheel an entry built by Jerry Bickel Race Cars and sporting a body from Tim McAmis. Crew chief Rickie Smith stated that the new ride is capable of accommodating a larger set of rear tires, like those of teammate Mike Castellana’s recently debuted Bickel-built 1970.5 Camaro.

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Meanwhile, Smith will return to action in the Pro Extreme ranks (after two horrific crashes), with his brand new supercharged Bickel-built Camaro, led by noted tuner Howard Moon. After obtaining another car, Smith completed his championship run in the Arabian Drag Racing League, and sat out the ADRL season until this point to prepare the new ride.

As for Smith’s wrecks, the team’s 1957 Chevy received extensive damage after getting upside down at an event in Bahrain in March. Three weeks later, after shipping the team’s ’68 Camaro to Qatar to replace the car damaged in Bahrain, it too was destroyed after the throttle hung on a record-setting 5.740-second, 256.05 mph lap.

Barwa, an innovative real estate conglomerate with numerous commercial and residential developments in Qatar, graces the doors of the new Camaro, along with a paint scheme that differs from Al-Anabi’s traditional burgundy, black and gold look.

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In the rapidly advancing race amongst engine builders to prove the philosophy that bigger is better, Puerto Rican Pro Modified racer Hector Estrada plans to debut his 1963 Corvette, with the first fuel-injected Pat Musi Performance 903 cubic inch powerplant, during the Pro Nitrous division at the LenMar Motorsports ADRL World Finals in Ennis, Texas on October 23-24. Estrada, the 2007 Puerto Rico Pro Mod champion, commissioned PMS Race Cars in his native country to construct the split-window Corvette, which is wrapped in a Hairy Glass carbon fiber body painted by Armando Design with House of Color paints.

The monster motor, which will feed its horsepower to the rear tires through a four-speed Lenco transmission, has piqued the curiosity of many in the ADRL pits, and is the first of its kind to debut after over a year in development by Musi. Constructed using an all aluminum block designed to contain the 5-inch pistons and 5.300 bore spacing, the 900-inch series engines are estimated to produce upwards of 1700 foot pounds of torque and in the neighborhood of 2,900 nitrous-assisted horses, of which Estrada will use four stages to propel his Corvette down the eighth-mile.