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go race to race and do the best we can . There ’ s a lot of teams that are more heavily funded than we are , but we hang in there .”
Camp ’ s racing career dates back to the ‘ 80s when he raced drag boats . When boat racing venue options started drying up , Camp shifted his focus to fast street cars . Those fast street cars started getting faster , and in the mid-2000s he jumped into the local Pro Mod scene near his home base in the Pittsburg area .
“ We thought we were going fast at 4.20s and 4.30s ,” Camp laughs . “ It progressively went from there .”
Nitrous oxide was Camp ’ s power adder of choice for many years . He
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kept going deeper and deeper into the nitrous racing pool until he reached the point where he felt like he couldn ’ t keep up . That prompted a change to Proline Racing ’ s Pro- Charger program over the offseason going into 2020 .
“ We ’ ve always ran nitrous – first , two kits , then three kits , up to six kits ,” Camp says . “ It got to the point where to go any faster was beyond my tuning capabilities . I kind of would ’ ve needed a professional tuner and professional crew and there was none really available . Proline came along with this deal and we switched .”
The switch quickly started paying off for Camp , who earned his first low qualifier award in the series at
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the PDRA Summer Shootout at Virginia Motorsports Park in late August . A month earlier , he won the Northeast Pro Mod Association race at Maple Grove Raceway . His first PDRA win followed in October at DragWars .
“ It was nice to be running at the top of the field again and to get some wins ,” Camp says of his long-awaited victories . “ We won an ADRL race [ in 2013 ] with nitrous , but then we had a big dry spell . We were right there . We never fell out of the top 10 , but we just weren ’ t getting the results that I wanted .”
Camp is especially proud of his team ’ s recent performance because the Pro Boost class is so competitive
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right now . It ’ s taken passes in the 3.60s to qualify in the top half of the field at the first two races of the season , and races are decided by slim margins and in more than a few occasions , holeshot advantages .
“ Anyone in Pro Boost now , they ’ re just all top-quality equipment and top-quality drivers ,” Camp says . “ Everywhere you go , these are all quality cars . There ’ s no easy rounds . Everybody is as good as everybody .”
Some of Camp ’ s toughest competitors in the class are also quasi-teammates in the Proline Racing camp . The group includes GALOT Motorsports drivers Kevin Rivenbark and Daniel Pharris , as well as Jason Harris in the “ Party Time ” ’ 18 Camaro and
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