We ran each in time runs , and she was trip-zip and whomped it on me and went dead-on . In a time run ! Nobody does that in qualifying , but she ’ s always trying to get better . That ’ s her drive , and it pushes me . She needs to act like she ’ s racing me every round , but she ’ s very , very good . She ’ s probably harder on herself than anybody could ever imagine . She wants to be perfect – and she wants her equipment to be perfect , which is where it ’ s tough on me .
RL : When we ’ ve run against each other a couple times in Super Comp , to me , that ’ s just us having fun . When I big-money bracket race the dragster , I feel very serious about it – but I ’ m not expected to be the world ’ s best Super Comp driver . I ’ m just trying to get better , because I haven ’ t done a lot of it . When I ’ ve won , I just try not to screw it up the next round . I definitely think that running the dragster makes me a better Stock Eliminator racer , and while my Stocker is waiting to get rebuilt , that ’ s kept me in the mix of things . I like Bo running a Sportsman car , whether we race against each other or not . To me , it ’ s part of the stuff we get to do together . I definitely enjoy when I ’ m running my Stocker and he ’ s running whatever else he wants to run .
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How do you think you two complement one another ?
RL : I think we ’ re balanced . Bo is the nice politician everybody likes ; he can smooth out any situation , and I ’ m the opposite . I ’ m fired up and on the chip , and I need to be calmed down sometimes and brought back to reality . I have the fighting spirit , but Bo is the opposite . He doesn ’ t like conflict , and I ’ ll look conflict right in the face .
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Tell us about stepping up to Pro Stock , how did that happen ?
BB : I was running Comp for a long time , but at the time I wasn ’ t quite as fast as I thought we should be . I knew nothing about Jason Line and Greg Anderson , other than watching them on TV , but I was at the U . S . Nationals , and I wasn ’ t happy with the way my car was running , so I walked right up to Greg in the staging lanes and said , “ Hey , would you ever consider doing any sportsman engines ?” He hooked me up with Jason , and I started with them . We doubled-up in Vegas in Comp and Stock with a KB Racing engine , then went to Pomona and got runner-up right after that .
We had some very good luck with their stuff , so at one point I called Jason and said , “ Hey , I might want to run Pro Stock some time ; just one
BO AND RANDI LYN ARE INSEPARABLE , WHETHER RANDI LYN IS RACING LATE INTO THE EVENING OR BO IS TOWING HIS PRO STOCKER BACK FROM THE SCALES AFTER A PASS .
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