Drag Illustrated Issue 138, November 2018 | Page 19
Special Section
“WE HAD A BAD YEAR LAST YEAR AND WE HAD
SOME STRUGGLES, BUT MY TEAM NEVER GAVE UP.”
again, the class wasn’t having
cars show up like I was hoping
they would,” Boone admits,
looking back on the short
eight-car fields of 2016. “Now
we’re having 15-16 cars. The
class is growing. I really think
that by next year we’ll have
even more cars show up.”
Mountain motor Pro Stock, by
some accounts, was on its
deathbed just a few years ago.
But with a reliable place to
race and a bevy of sponsors
– like title sponsor Liberty’s
Gears – supporting Extreme
Pro Stock, Boone is confident
the class can continue its nat-
urally aspirated climb.
“We would all like to see it get
back to it was in the old IHRA
days when you had 20-21 cars,
but if we had 18 cars, that
would not be out of the
realm,” Boone says. “We sat
and figured up there’s about
26-28 cars still left in the
United States that could come
out and race. I honestly feel
like some of these guys will
come back.”
Trying to run at the front of a
thriving class has required
Boone to step up his program
this season. His Boone Motor-
sports ’07 Chevy Cobalt has
been consistently running in
the 4.0-second zone all
season, carrying him to
victory at the North-South
Shootout and the Fall Nation-
als, plus a runner-up finish at
Drag Wars at GALOT Motors-
ports Park.
Boone, who services the
engine and handles the sus-
pension between rounds,
shares credit for the car’s per-
formance with tuner Mike
Allen Jr. and the Boone Mo-
torsports crew, adding that it
all comes down to one thing.
“Hard work,” Boone says.
“ Very, very hard work,
between the engine shop and
testing different things. My
engine builders work hard on
my stuff. My team doesn’t
give up. My team is one of the
hardest working teams that
I’ve ever been around. We had
a bad year last year and we
had some struggles, but they
never gave up.
Racing Suspension has helped
us with the suspension. But
the main thing has been hard
work. Sometimes you don’t
have to have the biggest
pocketbook, you just have to
work hard.”
The always-humble Boone
also offers his thanks to sup-
porters like Hoosier Tire, Pat
Norcia at Ram Clutches,
Penske Shocks, and Richard
Boling Race Cars, as well as
the employees of his three
businesses: Boone Concrete
Works, WNC Refab, and Boone
Motorsports, a high perfor-
mance automotive shop.
“We’ve tried some new stuff.
Adam Lambert with Precision
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