IHRA Pro Stock star Carl Baker (behind car with headphones) is serving as crew chief for Richard Penland this year. Penland also singled out Baker’s wife, Donna, along with crewmembers Steve Robinson and Shawn Linder for their help on his ’04 Cobra, and praised his own wife, Barbara, for her “great support” of his racing efforts.

In his third final round after three races this season, Herring left with a .025 holeshot and posted a 6.543 to Penland’s 6.548. “It got loose going between second and third gear and rattled the tires,” Penland said later. “That probably cost us the race. We had run a .51 in the second round and should’ve been able to duplicate that.”

Herring said he’d installed a second nitrous bottle and turned on his Fulton-built 698’s third stage of nitrous for the first time all day in preparation for the final, but never used it during the run. “The car drifted around a bit about halfway down and I had the third-stage button installed on the steering wheel, but I was driving around so much that I don’t know I could’ve found it even if I needed it.”

Driving for team owner Tom Moore, Jimmy Keen made it to the FFW Street Outlaw final at Atlanta in only the second race with this car, a 2004 ‘Stang built by Tim Takash in Winter Park, FL.

Billy Glidden crushed all competition on his way to a third-straight ProCharger Street Outlaw win this year. He qualified number one on top of an eight-car field with a 7.061 at 194.97 mph pass, dwarfing the 7.416/186.68 combo put together by second-place qualifier Jeff Tyson. On raceday, Glidden easily got past Tony Watkins, who broke going into the first round, with another 7.06, then beat Travis Franklin 7.13 to 7.38 in the semis.

On the other side of the ladder Parrish, FL’s Jimmy Keen survived from the seventh-place starting position by beating Tyson in the opener and getting a fortunate bye in the semis. In the final round, the electrical bug that plagued Keen’s bye run was still in place, as he stumbled off the line while Glidden laid down a 7.10-secs pass at 194.76 mph.

Glidden considered his day “fairly uneventful,” saying he made some chassis tweaks before the first round, then essentially left his 1990 Mustang alone. “That last run was pretty nice,” he said. “It seems as if I can get through first and second gears I’ll be okay.”

Billy Glidden demonstrated why his car wears the number one with yet another Street Outlaw win at 15th running of the Peach State Fun Ford Weekend Nationals at Atlanta Dragway.