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“ This season ’ s probably been the busiest I ’ ve been ,” Harvey says from a dyno session at Modern Racing in Mooresville , North Carolina . “ I can ’ t even do much bracket racing because we ’ re doing a lot of headsup stuff . We ’ re running the whole PDRA season and all the Big Dog races , and a lot of work in between with my main job and just working with the race cars . It ’ s been a busy schedule . I haven ’ t had a weekend off in I don ’ t know how long .”
Harvey isn ’ t complaining . It ’ s just additional seat time for someone already known as one of the most versatile drivers in drag racing . An accomplished wheelman in bracket racing , grudge racing , and clockson heads-up racing , Harvey won in
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Top Dragster at the first-ever PDRA race at Rockingham Dragway in 2014 . He added a Pro Nitrous win in 2016 , and this season , he won the Mid-Atlantic Showdown presented by Classic Graphix at Virginia Motorsports Park to add Pro Boost to that list .
Harvey ’ s venture into Pro Boost started late in the 2022 season when Miles wanted to add a boosted car to the team ’ s program . Around the same time , a post circulated Facebook advertising one of the GALOT Motorsports Pro Boost ’ 69 Camaros available for rent . Harvey , Miles , and Holland got together with Pro Line Racing ’ s Eric Dillard and GALOT Motorsports owner Earl Wells , and the group
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signed a deal to bring Harvey into the Steve Petty-led GALOT program .
During the break in the PDRA schedule between the U . S . 131 Northern Nationals presented by Talbert Manufacturing in early August and the Red Line Oil Carolina Nationals , September 14-16 , at Darlington Dragway , Harvey spoke with Drag Illustrated for an interview about his experience in Pro Boost .
You race in numerous different cars and forms of drag racing . What does it take to go back and forth between these different cars ?
It ’ s just seat time , and you kind of just relax and think about what car you ’ re in . I can fit in about anything .
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I know I ’ m tall , but I ’ m slim , so I can get in just about anything . Sometimes I ’ m more cramped than others , but the biggest issue I have – and it ’ s not that bad – is just the burnout on different engine combinations . I try to take care of the engine , so I don ’ t like to over-rev them . I don ’ t use rev limiters or anything like that . That ’ s the main thing . Going from a nitrous car to a boosted car , it ’ s a difference in the feel of the throttle . That ’ s probably the only issue I have . And the smalltire stuff is definitely a different feel . Running big tire then going to a 275 radial , it ’ s a big difference in the seat of the pants .
What did it mean to you to get that first Pro Boost win at Virginia ?
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