fter suffering through a
significant dry spell, Shane Stack
came back in a big way to shake
things up in 2017 with multiple
wins, a season championship,
and a whole new attitude to-
wards his racing program.
A lifelong Huntsville, Ala-
bama, resident, Stack has always
been close to racing. Besides
having Huntsville Dragway
nearby, his neighbor, Randy
“Snake,” was always working on
some new project and would let
Stack tag along. “It wasn’t my
dad, Jerry Stack, who got me into racing – he
can’t even put a chain on a bicycle, but he’s a
doctor so at least he’s good for something,” laughs
Stack, now 43. “Randy drag raced some but was
mostly a street/hot rod kind of guy.”
Starting around the fourth grade, Stack would
head home after school and spend his days hang-
ing out in Randy’s garage. “He was pretty patient
with me and put up a whole lot,” Stack admits.
Thanks to Randy’s encouragement and tutelage,
though, Stack was inspired to start a racing ca-
reer of his own. From dirt bikes to four wheelers,
RC cars and more, he raced anything he could
get his hands on.
April 2018
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