It was awesome . I loved it . What I like about PDRA is the competition is really tough in Pro Nitrous and Pro Boost . Any of the qualified 16 cars can win . I ’ ll take a win any way I can get it , but I earned it . It ’ s more gratifying to have a win like that . Hopefully we can get many more . It was cool because I won in a class I never won in , so that was pretty good . |
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You ’ ve gone head-to-head with your longtime Big Dog rival , Jason Harris . What ’ s it been like racing with him at this level ? |
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Man , me and Jason go back a long ways . We bracket raced together . It ’ s just a local rivalry . When we go head-to-head , we know both will be pretty good on the starting line . The cars are running good . I ’ m tired of racing him , to be honest with you , because he ’ s a very good competitor . It ’ s fun , but it ’ s tough racing against him . He ’ s got a great deal over there . We go back and forth . Sometimes in PDRA , I ’ ll get him , then we go to Piedmont for Big Dog and he ’ ll beat me . It ’ s fun for the fans , but I know me and him are about tired of racing each other .
Has there been anything about Pro Boost that ’ s surprised you ?
I knew going in the competition would be tough , but it ’ s actually tougher than I thought . Everybody ’ s
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got great stuff . PDRA and John Sears [ tech director ] and Tyler [ Crossnoe , series director ] and all the guys there have made the competition between the different combos pretty close . Anybody can beat you . It ’ s hard to win . Some guys are a little better than others , but anybody can win . But I like the competition .
You brought back out the other GALOT car recently . What was the reason for that move ? What ’ s the plan for the rest of the season with the Pro Boost car and the Pro Nitrous car ?
The plan from the start was to have two GALOT cars , the gray car and the car that I ’ m driving right now . That car was being repaired , but it
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wasn ’ t ready in time for me to drive . Marcus Birt was going to run the gray car in the small-tire , Radial vs . the World stuff , and I was going to drive the black and orange GALOT car in PDRA and select Pro Mod races . It wasn ’ t ready , so we had to run the gray car . I think they finished it up in May or so and got it back together . At the ProStars race , we brought it out and just wanted to test it to see how well it worked compared to the gray car . It ’ s actually probably better , so the plan is to stick with it all year and hopefully run it next year . |
I plan to run the Pro Nitrous car the rest of the year . Our main goal was to run a select few PDRA races , but run it at all the Big Dog races . We left that car in Big Dog trim most of |
the year because the weights are different . Going back and forth is tough . We have one more [ Big Dog ] race , so after that we ’ ll put it in Pro Nitrous trim and run it the rest of the year . So I ’ ll be double dutying . I like doing that because it keeps me going and I get more seat time and hits at the tree . It ’ s a lot of work , but I think it makes me a better driver .
What are your goals for the rest of the season ?
My goal is to win the championship . I know we ’ re sitting third , three or four rounds out , but we got a great car and a great team . Steve Petty and the guys that maintain the car are great . I think we have a shot at it , we just need a little luck .
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