Brad Brand testing his XTF entry. Photo: John Fore III

The name Brad Brand has been around the sport of heads up drag racing for as many years as I can remember and has always been a stout competitor. Most recently Brad campaigned a 1992 Mustang in Outlaw 10.5 up and down the east coast with a powerful Proline Racing engine with twin turbos. This very car had a untimely demise at the Shakedown at Etown last year where it went through the sand trap damaging the Mustang heavily. But as any true racer Brad shook it off and started to prepare for his next venture in the world of drag racing.

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Back in April we reported that Brad Brand had been entertaining the idea of entering into Xtreme 10.5 with the ADRL. Brand searched for the right piece of equipment and purchased a championship caliber car which was once campaigned by John Nobile and Frank Gugliotta. In the most recent pictures of the car it appears that a turbocharged powerplant has found its way into the engine bay of the Mustang. We are told that it is a big block Ford combination which will hopefully set him apart from the rest of the field when the make the trek to St. Louis for this weekends ADRL race.

During a test session in Atlanta this week we received details that Brand was really onto something with just a few passes on the car. On the first full pass on the car they had a bit of engine trouble with a broken rocker arm and still coasted to a 4.11 @ 188mph. Judging by the 1.08 second sixty foot time and the eighth mile times on a hot and greasy Atlanta track we may just get to see the fifth member of the Mickey Thompson 3-Second club this weekend.