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a racetrack and had the series and all of that to do, it’ s easy to say, hey, sometimes maybe we’ re not looking deeper and further into what can be better or bigger and where that goes. I’ m really excited to be able to put resources towards working on PDRA every day of the week. That’ s the most exciting part to me.
Obviously, Tyler is a smart guy who cares about the racers, who wants to make sure that the racers have a great place to race, and has the integrity to know that it’ s an event that has to go off in the right manner. Whether we like the decision or not, it has to go off in the right manner. Safety is first and everything has to be legit. We try to do all of that. Everybody will always have their stories, but we know what we do on our side, so that’ s all we can do. I think he’ s great to lead that. I think it’ ll show up even more now that he has more time to focus on just the PDRA.
What was critical to continue in 2026 and where did you want to build on and improve?
We have a great racer base, as I’ ve said, and the competition level is high. I want that to continue. I want that to only get better. Over the past
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10-plus years, I feel like we’ ve taken Pro Mod racing to a level that is crazy where these guys can compete as close as they do and be as competitive as it is. I want that to only continue.
I love the sport. I love the classes that we have. I said Pro Mod, but what about Top Sportsman, Top Dragster, the Jr. Dragsters? Every class that we have, the competition level is so high. I think that’ s one of the things that I’ m most proud of with PDRA. It’ s not,“ I’ m going to go race over here and collect this check.” You’ re going to earn it. We see people that choose not to come race with us because it’ s not easy pickings. And I’ m OK with that.
I want everybody to know that if they’ re going to come over here, they’ re going to come over here to win and accomplish. I’ m OK with that. That’ s what I want to continue to build, that reputation where everybody knows,“ Hey, this is the hardest grounds to race on and we’ re going to come over here and try to conquer it.”
What are your goals for the season?
My goal is just to continue to grow our racer base and really focus on
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growing our fan base. I think that we have a great product. Drag racing’ s a hard sport to come watch because it’ s a 12-hour-long day to watch it from start to finish, and you’ re going to do that for two or three days. But when people come out, I want them to know that there’ s some of the best competition on the racetrack at all times. We’ re going to focus on that. We’ re going to focus on letting people know when the classes that they want to watch are out there competing and narrow that down to a |
window where they can see some good racing.
I’ ve told everybody,“ We do what we do. We just have to focus on what we do and make it the best pass that goes down the racetrack every time.” And I think the rest comes with it. And there’ s always a lot of noise and chatter out there. The Internet’ s a wild thing, so we just need to continue to be noticed and let our racers elevate themselves and get out there in front of the people that they deserve to be in front of.
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