{"id":102372,"date":"2025-10-10T14:44:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/di-classic-john-deflorians-new-life-in-extreme-pro-stock\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T14:44:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:44:32","slug":"di-classic-john-deflorians-new-life-in-extreme-pro-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/di-classic-john-deflorians-new-life-in-extreme-pro-stock\/","title":{"rendered":"DI CLASSIC: John DeFlorian\u2019s New Life in Extreme Pro Stock"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Drag Illustrated celebrates its 20th anniversary and approaches the milestone 200th issue in 2026, we\u2019re diving into the archives and republishing some of favorite features from 190-plus issues of the magazine. This cover story by Ian Tocher on John DeFlorian, who recently earned the 2025 JHG NHRA Mountain Motor Pro Stock world championship, is from DI #76 in April\/May of 2013. <\/em><\/p>\n

John DeFlorian Jr. rolled into Gateway Motorsports Park last summer, his home away from home just across the mighty Mississippi from St. Louis, knowing it could be a special weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

New to the American Drag Racing League\u2019s Extreme Pro Stock (XPS) class after years of on-again-off-again campaigning in Pro Nitrous, DeFlorian had qualified number one at the previous two events in Bristol, Tennessee, and Reading, Pennsylvania. Though no one doubted his performances, DeFlorian definitely wanted to prove he could do it again; that they were no flukes; that he and his team commanded the respect accorded to frontrunners of the naturally aspirated, mountain-motor class.<\/p>\n

Of course DeFlorian would never put it that way. His friendly and humble\u2014though somewhat excitable\u2014personality would never allow for that; but his competitive fires were burning bright and an analytical mind honed over 35 years of racing had been working overtime in the weeks leading up to the race.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There were other factors at hand, too. The ADRL race was Gateway\u2019s comeback event under new ownership after being unceremoniously shuttered a year earlier. DeFlorian had been racing at the track since 1977 when he was just 16-years old, beginning as a bracket racer and advancing through the ranks to nitrous Pro Mod, all the while serving as foreman at the Jerry Haas Race Cars (JHRC) shop in Fenton, Missouri, making him a familiar figure on the St. Louis drag racing scene. And racing so close to his Arnold, Missouri, home guaranteed that come race day DeFlorian\u2019s pit would be teeming with a virtual parade of friends, family members and eager well wishers who simply remembered him from back in the day.<\/p>\n

Beyond all that, though, DeFlorian was excited because of the weather. He\u2019d been keeping an eye on local atmospheric conditions and liked what he saw.<\/p>\n

\u201cI watched the weather for almost a month and we were in this pattern of highs and lows; real hot weather, then dips down and it would get real cool,\u201d he recalls. DeFlorian describes going to a car dealership near the track to put his race car on display about a week before the event and even before noon, temperatures had soared to nearly 100 degrees.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMy crew guy David (Koch) and I were there, just dying, because we had to unload the car by ourselves and we were sweating like dogs and that\u2019s when somebody asked me if I hated it being this hot, this early. And I said no, actually I\u2019m pretty excited.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey looked at me as if I was out of my mind, but I said, \u2018Yeah, I\u2019m excited because if this works out the way it looks, by next weekend we\u2019ll have some good weather for going fast.\u2019 I was thinking good weather might be 80, 85 degrees, which would have been good\u2014never dreaming that we were going to see what we actually had.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Thursday, the day before qualifying began for the 2012 Gateway Drags IV, DeFlorian and his teammates arrived at the track in a driving rainstorm. When the rain finally stopped the temperature dropped, sending crewmembers and fans alike scrambling to find their hoodies and sweatshirts. DeFlorian didn\u2019t care. He had been watching the barometer the last couple of weeks and knew it had shown consistently high pressure and he expected the same even after the bad weather front rolled through.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That night, still under a misty, drizzly rain, DeFlorian was out at 10:30 walking the race track. He often does that on race weekends in order to get a close-up look at the racing surface and try to develop a feel for where he might need to be on the track to make good runs. \u201cI was out there with a buddy of mine and said to him that just based on the weather, it\u2019s going to be fast, really fast. We just kind of knew at that point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ambient conditions for Friday\u2019s opening qualifying session confirmed DeFlorian\u2019s expectations: mid-60s on the thermometer, 29.47 inches on the barometer and by sheer luck of the draw he made his first pass in the preferred left lane, covering the Gateway eighth mile in a record-setting 4.035 seconds at an also-unprecedented 179.28 miles per hour.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

DeFlorian and his guys were stoked. If anyone didn\u2019t realize it before, they knew it now; this team was for real.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It would get better, too; though DeFlorian says he \u201cscrewed up driving\u201d in his second pass that day, missing a shift point by a hundred RPM or so and delivering \u201conly\u201d a 4.07 at 177.84 that actually backed up his previous run within the required one percent for the official class speed record. But he wanted the elapsed time mark, too\u2014plus the 50-point bonus it promised.<\/p>\n

As Friday evening\u2019s session loomed DeFlorian liked what his weather station and experience were saying\u2014not to mention he couldn\u2019t wait to get back in that left lane. And the wait paid off, as he blasted to a 4.018-seconds pass at 179.92 mph, setting an ET record that remains in place nearly a year later.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen I left the starting line, it felt like somebody kicked me in the ass,\u201d he recalls. \u201cIt left so hard, harder than I ever left before; I knew it in the seat and I was like, \u2018Wow, that was awesome!\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThe shift light\u2019s on and I\u2019m consciously thinking in the car that was quick, and before I knew it I hardly got it shifted and the lights back on! Second and then third; holy smoke, I put it in fourth gear because it\u2019s coming so fast and I put it in fifth, and I\u2019m thinking that\u2019s got to be a good run. I was thinking another .03, maybe even an .02 if we\u2019re lucky. It felt so good and so quick on the shifts, everything was right; I could just feel it in the car.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I put the clutch in, shut it off, and take a quick look at the scoreboard,\u201d he says. \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe it said 4.01; I was in the car, talking to myself\u2014I do that a lot anyway\u2014and I\u2019m just screaming. I\u2019m pretty sure when I got to the end of the track that the track guys and safety crew were thinking there\u2019s something wrong with that guy because he\u2019s screaming like he\u2019s on fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

In truth, it was simply the day that John DeFlorian Jr. became an Extreme Pro Stock driver and put his Pro Nitrous past to rest.<\/p>\n

DeFlorian loved nitrous racing. He\u2019d done it for years on his own dime, eventually graduating to ADRL competition in 2006 with a sharp-looking \u201906 Corvette\u2014a Haas car, of course\u2014and despite sometimes sporadic attendance he represented himself well over the next couple of ADRL seasons, usually qualifying and going a round or two here and there, though never really posing a true threat to the Jenkins and Castellanas and Halseys of the Pro Nitrous world. Still, as a longtime competitor and hands-on fabricator with one of the nation\u2019s premier chassis builders, no one doubted DeFlorian\u2019s knowledge or talents; nor his dedication to the sport.<\/p>\n

But dedication doesn\u2019t pay for diesel fuel or race car parts. Though he had the car, DeFlorian was financially forced to team up with other racers just to put an engine under the hood; first with Thomas and Rebecca Myers in 2008, then with Michael Bankston and his Bankston Boyz team the following year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Thomas and Rebecca, they allowed me to run one of their motors so they could try and sell it, which is ultimately what happened, but because of that I was able to be at the race track and Mike (Bankston) saw that I was making a real commitment, almost at all costs, just to be there. He later told me that had made a big impression on him and was a big factor in making him decide to go ahead and work with me,\u201d DeFlorian says.<\/p>\n

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Throughout 2009, DeFlorian raced as a teammate to his good friend and Bankston\u2019s other driver, Tim Savell, and later alongside Stan Allen, too, enjoying his greatest success in the class to that point with several top-half-of-the-field qualifying runs and late-round appearances in eliminations. A win seemed just around the corner for DeFlorian at the time, and it was all going pretty much according to plan until race day in July 2010 at Heartland Park-Topeka. DeFlorian\u2019s time in Pro Nitrous ran out in 4.92 seconds.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately the motor broke pretty bad in the first round there and Mike\u2019s business was in a bit of a downturn then, so he decided he just couldn\u2019t afford to keep three cars going and ended up selling that motor, which kind of drew that deal to an end,\u201d DeFlorian says. \u201cNo hard feelings, that\u2019s just the way it goes sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sidelined, a half year later DeFlorian did something he never thought he would; he sold the Corvette.<\/p>\n

\u201cA guy I knew in Michigan called and asked if I would consider selling him the car,\u201d he explains. \u201cI told him no, but he called again a little while later and by then I still didn\u2019t have any new prospects so I said that maybe I would and the next thing I know he\u2019s down at our shop with his trailer and I\u2019m pushing the car into it all the while thinking, what the heck am I doing?<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a pretty sobering moment really, because for the first time in my life since I was a teenager I was without a race car. It was a weird feeling because I realized then that maybe I was done; maybe I was never going to race again, or at least not at a professional level, so it was kind of a hard thing to deal with.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeFlorian, 52, remembers dejectedly telling fianc\u00e9e LiAnn Byington that he\u2019d probably have to satisfy his racing itch vicariously from then on, helping customers get their cars down the race track. That wasn\u2019t going to be good enough, however, for Kevin Bealko, whom DeFlorian had met and befriended in 2009, when the coal mining executive from Bridgeport, West Virginia, was having his Top Sportsman car\u2019s chassis upgraded at JHRC for the leap up to XPS competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the day we met John in Haas\u2019 shop, we just kind of clicked,\u201d Bealko recalls. \u201cI remember thinking here was a guy who was very sharp and knew the racing business and what he wanted to do in it, so when I learned he wasn\u2019t racing anymore it just didn\u2019t seem right to me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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After making several ADRL appearances in 2009 and 2010 with his ex-Dave Connolly \u201905 Cobalt, Bealko contracted Haas to build a new Pontiac GXP for the 2011 season, which he continues to compete with in XPS. Again, DeFlorian was heavily involved in the car\u2019s construction, as was his veteran crew chief, Dan Hellmer, who also works at JHRC.<\/p>\n

The relationship with Haas had provided Bealko, who races with his brothers Rob, Larry and Ben on the Black Diamond Motorsports team, a perfect up-close opportunity to see DeFlorian and Hellmer work together both at the shop and at the track in Pro Nitrous during the first few races of the 2010 season. The brothers agreed they liked the way DeFlorian also demonstrated a family-first attitude and all supported Bealko\u2019s notion in mid-2011 to add him as a full-fledged member to their team.<\/p>\n

For DeFlorian it seemed beyond generous when Bealko suggested they build a new car together, which DeFlorian would own, while Black Diamond provided the drivetrain. \u201cHe even gave me the option of staying in Pro Nitrous or coming over and becoming a Pro Stock racer with him. I mean, who does that?\u201d DeFlorian asks, a tinge of marvel still in his voice even today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s simple; if it weren\u2019t for Kevin and his wife, Karen, I\u2019d be parked,\u201d he states. \u201cLet\u2019s be honest, it looked pretty bleak as far as me being able to go out and race again. I was really in doubt.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Though admittedly difficult to turn away from nitrous racing, after speaking with Byington and Hellmer, who both encouraged him to give XPS a try, DeFlorian says he reached the decision he thought would bring the most benefit to the most people involved.<\/p>\n

\u201cI agonized over leaving Pro Nitrous because it really felt like I had unfinished business over there,\u201d he admits. \u201cWe had some pretty decent success, made it to a couple of semi-finals, but not at the level we could have if given the right financial resources. But after talking with LiAnn and Dan and thinking about it a lot, I thought the time was right to try something new. And I\u2019m so thankful I did. I\u2019ve told those guys numerous times that I was glad they pushed this deal toward doing it as Pro Stock, because that was the best thing we could have done.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Essentially, DeFlorian owns the car, his race rig, and brings his own crew to the track, while Bealko provides an 825-cubic-inch Sonny\u2019s Chevy hemi engine backed up by a Lenco transmission outfitted with a Ram clutch and Liberty shifter. It\u2019s very similar to the combination Bealko\u2019s GXP carries, though he\u2019s made the switch to EFI this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bealko insists he didn\u2019t hold a strong preference for which class DeFlorian entered, but admits his brothers and crew members were hopeful it would be Extreme Pro Stock in order for them to gain additional data at each event.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course we\u2019re all pretty happy that John elected to go in the direction he did,\u201d Bealko says. \u201cHe already knew all the Pro Stock racers from building so many of their cars with Haas, and Dan is just excellent when it comes to setting up cars, so it was good to get all that knowledge and experience to help us expand our own performance with the GXP.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeFlorian made his Extreme Pro Stock debut with his new car, one of the first of the new-generation Camaros created for the class, at the 2012 ADRL season opener in Houston, four months after beginning construction the previous November. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty much a standard Haas car that I actually built at the shop during the day,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was kind of an unusual situation to be able to do that, on shop time; the other car I always had to work on at night and on weekends.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Camaro performed solidly from the start, with DeFlorian qualifying 13th his first time out at the Houston event and it improved from there. The number-one starts at Bristol and Reading followed and though he wasn\u2019t able to back up his record-setting performance at St. Louis with the event title, that career-first ADRL win came just two races later at Martin, Michigan.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, (current back-to-back XPS champion) Cary Goforth told me last year that he felt like the hardest win to get was the first one, but once you got past that hump they\u2019re still difficult and hard to come by, but they somehow seem to become more obtainable,\u201d DeFlorian says. \u201cI guess it\u2019s the confidence you get with that first win where you feel like, okay, we can do this and we can win these races. That\u2019s how we felt after finally getting that win up in Martin.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of course there were a few hiccups along the way, too; a couple of first-round exits and a DNQ at Richmond come to mind, but DeFlorian is quick to suggest driver error in his XPS rookie campaign played no insignificant role in whatever setbacks his team may have endured. However, if this season\u2019s start is at all indicative of how it may finish, driver error may not even come into consideration.<\/p>\n

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At the ADRL\u2019s Dragpalooza IX in Rockingham, North Carolina, the series\u2019 first race of the year, DeFlorian posted no worse than a .033 reaction time through four rounds of racing on his way to the event win. And it was much the same just a couple of weeks later in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where in the debut event for the upstart X-treme Drag Racing League, DeFlorian repeated his race-winning ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be honest, to win the first race of the season exceeded my expectations,\u201d DeFlorian admits. \u201cWe go to the races with the intention of winning; otherwise there\u2019s no reason to go, but to actually get a win is extremely difficult to achieve because these races are tough. You cannot go in with that expectation because you win and lose races by thousandths of a second. That could be a car performance issue; it could be a driver performance issue; it could be just plain bad luck.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSo getting that first win was really special. And then to come back around and get a second win was just beyond my wildest dreams. I really never dreamed of winning back to back. The confidence level for the whole team just skyrocketed.\u201d<\/p>\n

This represents just one more benefit to going the Extreme Pro Stock route for DeFlorian. He realizes had he remained in Pro Nitrous, the level of camaraderie and cooperation between his and Bealko\u2019s crew members might never be so strong.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith all of us working on both cars, the cars being very similar, almost identical, there are a lot of rewards. Not the least of which being that when we do get to the winner\u2019s circle, I want everybody up there with me and in the pictures. I want everybody to be a part of that and celebrate, because it\u2019s a lot of hard work on everybody\u2019s part to make that happen,\u201d he stresses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThese guys work very hard, it doesn\u2019t matter which car they work on. They deserve that right. They deserve that opportunity to be up there and have the pictures and the accolades that go along with it. The drivers, to be honest, get all the attention and the glory. The guys behind the scene don\u2019t. People don\u2019t know who they are for the most part. They don\u2019t get the fans wanting their autographs. But those guys in the pits, they make it happen for the drivers. The drivers wouldn\u2019t be doing what they\u2019re doing without them. So I am adamant about everybody being up there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a team,\u201d he emphasizes. \u201cOne team, two cars; that\u2019s our mission statement going into this race season, that\u2019s what this is.\u201d<\/p>\n

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To that end, DeFlorian has made it one of his goals in 2013 to put Bealko into a winner\u2019s circle of his own, or at least into a final round where the Black Diamond teammates can settle the race between themselves. \u201cFirst we have to get his car performing at the level of the Camaro in order for us to qualify one and two,\u201d he says. \u201cThat way we don\u2019t have to worry about running each other until we make it to the final.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ADRL event at Rockingham also delivered another milestone performance for DeFlorian when he became the first mountain-motor Pro Stock driver to power through the 180-mph barrier over an eighth mile. He\u2019d nearly turned the trick during the heroics at Gateway last summer and almost again with an oh-so-close 179.95-mph pass in qualifying number one at the ADRL season ender at Dallas in October, so the potential definitely remained.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After waiting patiently through the off season and heading into Rockingham, knowing its reputation as a fast track, DeFlorian says he was again glued to the weather reports\u2014and liked what he saw. He also knew, though, that there were other XPS teams equally intent on being the first to 180 and he\u2019d need a little luck to beat them to it.<\/p>\n

He got it when ADRL President Kenny Nowling pulled his car number in a random drawing to determine lanes and run order for the first round of qualifying at \u201cThe Rock.\u201d DeFlorian would run in the second pair alongside Trevor Eman after Lester Cooper and Scott Hintz opened the session. With none of those three likely to be contenders for the prize, it essentially became DeFlorian\u2019s to win or lose.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt couldn\u2019t have worked out any better. I\u2019ll tell you the truth, when we were standing there in the drivers\u2019 meeting I was holding my breath when he (Nowling) made the draw and called my name,\u201d DeFlorian says. \u201cFor once I was actually happy to go early because usually you like to be at least a few cars back in the pack to get a judgment of what the track\u2019s doing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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As it turned out, the track was just fine, as was the weather with an overcast 64 degrees, 29.82 on the barometer and corrected altitude of less than 650 feet. It all translated into a near-record 4.025-seconds pass at the desired 180.26 miles per hour. That early run proved significant, too, as Richard Penland put 180.02 up on the Rockingham scoreboard in the very next pair and Goforth ran 180.14 as the final car in the session. No one, including DeFlorian, reached the 180 mark again all weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a super special thing for us because we really worked hard to make that happen,\u201d DeFlorian says. \u201cFortunately we were able to back the record up and it held for the weekend, too. I think it\u2019ll be a barrier that will be hard to break again, but it\u2019s there. All these cars are making lots of power and they can run it. It just has to be the right conditions and the right combination of car and setup and it\u2019ll happen. But we did it first and we\u2019re really proud of that and very thankful. Now we can set our sights on that first three-second run.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a certain swagger to John DeFlorian that wasn\u2019t there not so long ago, certainly not in his Pro Nitrous days. It comes with knowing each time he rolls through the gates for an ADRL or X-DRL event that he has a car to beat, that he\u2019s going to be a threat to win, maybe even set a record or two along the way. Quiet confidence might actually be a better way to describe DeFlorian\u2019s XPS state of mind, but he\u2019s not shy about enjoying the advantages that being among the best in class brings.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be honest, it makes you feel great; just knowing the other guys are gunning for you, that\u2019s exactly what it does,\u201d he says. \u201cObviously, the driver, your confidence level is extremely high. You feel like you can take on the world. But the fact is that your confidence is up and the other drivers are now aware of the consistency of your car and how fast it really is, so it causes them to get out of their comfort zones and race in a way they\u2019re maybe not used to. It actually gives you an advantage because you know they\u2019re going to do something they don\u2019t normally do and a lot of times it means they\u2019ll get too aggressive against you.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSo that\u2019s kind of where we\u2019re at now,\u201d he continues. \u201cWe\u2019re confident and the car is running well and we feel we are a legit threat to win some races, which we\u2019ve been working hard at to become. And getting these first two wins under our belt just makes us that much more confident. But there\u2019s a big difference between confident and cocky. We\u2019re not cocky by any means because we know how quickly this stuff can go away.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In other words, DeFlorian has the advantage of time and experience stacked up behind him. Not only has he been racing on his own for decades, but through his role at Haas he\u2019s rubbed shoulders with countless racers big and small, seen their fears and follies come to life, seen fortunes spent and lives ruined. He also knows, intimately, the hard work and sacrifice it requires on practically all levels of the drag racing plain, but especially among the pros, to excel and reap the rewards of success. He knows what it takes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been very fortunate over my career of racing. I\u2019ve had a lot of highs and a lot of lows, but the one thing that\u2019s been very good for me is I went through those challenging times before I got to this level of racing and it made me humble and also very grateful when the times are good and everything is going well and you\u2019re winning rounds and races,\u201d DeFlorian says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI always tell the guys let\u2019s hold onto this; let\u2019s relish it because it doesn\u2019t last; we have to enjoy this moment while it\u2019s here because it won\u2019t be here forever. It\u2019ll disappear and we\u2019ll have to go back to working hard again and hopefully it will come back, but there\u2019s no guarantee.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

For now, though, DeFlorian declares he\u2019s \u201chaving an absolute blast\u201d going through what he calls \u201cone of the best times I\u2019ve ever had in my racing career.\u201d Then, just as emphatically, just as sincerely, he gives all the credit to Kevin Bealko and his wife, Karen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have made my dream a reality. That is the truth,\u201d DeFlorian says. \u201cThey put me back in racing again. They are my saviors. They saved my life in this racing deal. I could never thank them enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOn top of it all, they\u2019re great people and we are great friends. We became really, really close friends long before we ever discussed this whole two-car thing and that\u2019s a special situation there because it wasn\u2019t like this was a business of us teaming up together to go race. It was friendship, a great friendship. Kevin said, \u2018You should be racing; you\u2019re a good person and a good racer and a good driver. You need to be back in the seat so what do we need to do to make that happen?\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cKevin gave me this opportunity to open the door and the rest is history, but there\u2019s a lot more history to be written\u2014and we\u2019re going to be writing it together\u2014as a team.\u201d<\/p>\n

The post DI CLASSIC: John DeFlorian\u2019s New Life in Extreme Pro Stock<\/a> first appeared on Drag Illustrated<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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