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can see there’ s issues with that, with just not knowing how a car fully works. I guess growing up around a big car also helps. But it prepares you for the aspect of being a driver and learning how your body reacts and how it is going down the racetrack and just kind of being prepared for all the adrenaline rushes and mental battles you face as a driver. Since I’ ve done that since I was 9 when I started racing Jrs., I’ ve just prepared for bigger moments like driving the big car and final rounds. Especially the final at GALOT. That was a stressful one.”
At GALOT, McGee qualified No. 2 behind fellow young gun Austin Vincent and made his way to the final round to meet yet another young gun, Matt Schalow, who qualified third and knocked out Vincent in the semis. Schalow moved first in his nitrous-fed’ 00 Camaro, but McGee got around him with low E. T. of race day, a 4.629 at 149.83 mph, to beat Schalow
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’ s 4.663 at 157.52 mph by three thousandths of a second.
“ We missed a race last year and we weren’ t sure if we were really going to be competitive,” said McGee, who won twice in 2024, in his winner’ s circle interview.“ We proved that to ourselves last year. This year, we’ re definitely here to win and stay competitive. This win definitely puts that fire in the whole team. We set the bar and can’ t go much higher, but we’ ll keep chipping at it to hopefully end up with the championship.”
McGee’ s two wins last season put him third in the final Super Street points standings. First-round exits at three of the seven races where Super Street was contested prevented him from finishing better. With support from his family, partners like Driven Racing Oil, and friends Jalen Burbage of JBR Solutions and Kameron Koch helping in the pits and on the starting line, McGee is motivated to consistently
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turn on win lights this season to contend for a PDRA Super Street presented by Brian’ s Heating & Cooling LLC. world championship.
“ I kinda want to not go into every race thinking,‘ I have to win this,’ because I don’ t want to put too much pressure on myself,” McGee says.“ You’ re not gonna win everything, no matter how you think it’ s gonna go. I go into every event with a positive mindset and have
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set some goals. Of course you want to win all the time, but just be consistent. That’ s something we really didn’ t have last year. We won at Bristol and then I screwed up at GALOT 2 and we lost first round. Rather than having such an upand-down kind of year, we’ re trying to be more consistent, trying not to lose first round all year, trying to go to the semis as much as we can, and trying to win as much as we can.” |
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