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Black Diamond Motorsports Prepares for XDRL Season Opener

BD_DeFlorianThe Black Diamond Motorsports America’s Power Clean Coal-sponsored GXP will make its official debut Apr. 6-7, at Osage Casino Tulsa Raceway Park in the first-ever event for the X-treme Drag Racing League (X-DRL).

It will be the first of nine scheduled events for the debut season of the X-DRL.

BD_rigComing off a win in the ADRL Extreme Pro Stock race last month at Rockingham Dragway in North Carolina, John DeFlorian (above), driver of the Black Diamond Motorsports 2012 Jerry Haas Camaro , looks forward to duplicating his number-one start in Tulsa, as well as possibly resetting the speed record he secured at “The Rock.”

Meanwhile, Black Diamond team owner Kevin Bealko will debut the launch of his partnership with The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity with the EFI Sonny’s Racing powered GXP and new trailer wrap.

(Photos by Ian Tocher, courtesy BDM; Click to enlarge)

 

This story was originally published on April 1, 2013. Drag Illustrated

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