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week-to-week between races?
I help run a construction company
and a concrete foundation
company. We have about 50-some
employees between the two con-
tracting companies, then we have
the racetrack. We’re open Wednes-
day nights, Fridays, Saturdays and
Sundays, so when I’m not racing
I’m pretty busy.
You’re very well-known for that first
5-second quarter-mile nitrous Pro
Mod pass. Do you have any tempta-
tion at all to chase after quarter-mile
numbers today?
Not really. I want to be the first
nitrous car in the 3.50s. That’s my
next big goal.
stepping stone into the beginning
of this year. We actually went to the
first Mad Mule race at GALOT to test
and it was rainy and cold and
nothing ever got off the ground
there, so our first test run was back
at GALOT for the PDRA race.
We’re always testing something, es-
pecially in qualifying during the early
runs, trying little things here and there
to try to pick up performance.
We go to win every race. I don’t
know if that’s realistic or not, but
that’s what we go for. I would love
to win a championship. That’s one
thing I’ve never done.
With the level of competition in Pro
Nitrous, what will it take to go out
there and win more of these races
and chase that championship? You’re gonna need to have plenty of
spare parts and be willing to work hard,
not only at the track between rounds,
but also at the shop between races
during the week. There’s a lot of main-
tenance in these things that people
don’t see that we take care of between
races. We’re going tire testing this
weekend at our place. A lot of people
don’t see that kind of stuff.
You have to be on top of your game. Speaking of that, what do you do
Do you feel pretty confident that
number is within reach?
I think it’s within reach. Based on
the information we have right now,
you’re going to have to have the
perfect racetrack and the perfect air
and make the perfect run to make
it happen, but I think it could happen.
How rewarding has it been to see that
effort turn into late-round perfor-
mances and a couple wins this season?
We struggled for a few years, thinking
back to 2010 or 2011. Goodyear
stopped making the tire that we were
really good on and we struggled for
several years after that. We never
really got good on the Hoosier or any
other Goodyear tire until we got
hooked up with Brandon (Switzer)
and he got us straightened out.
To run at the top of the field like we
have the last year, with the little bit
of time we spent with this new
program, we’re very happy.
You already have two wins in three
races. What are your goals for the
rest of the season?
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