PRESENTED BY together. All that’ s done at the shop. And that’ s because of the culture that we’ ve built.
Everybody says they have a good culture, but there’ s not a company in motorsports that has a culture like us. We’ re a family. We take care of each other, we love each other, we pick each other up when we’ re down. When you can get that type of environment … it took me a long time in business to realize that. I used to think Stevie Fast can tune it, drive it, and do it all – and I can, but not at the level of people that are working together with a common goal of winning. 2026 is our year. 2024 was building, 2025 was learning, and in 2026, we’ re on the gas and it is our year.
ABOVE: MOTION RACEWORKS OWNER DOUG COOK CELEBRATES ON THE STARTING LINE WITH THE KTR CREW AFTER JACKSON’ S $ 75,000 WIN.
BELOW: FLORACING’ S KAYLA MORTON INTERVIEWS JACKSON AND SHAWN“ MURDER NOVA” ELLINGTON PRIOR TO THEIR FIRST-ROUND MATCHUP.
together. KTR is a big operation with a lot of moving parts. I don’ t get to race a lot, but when I do get to bring my car out and have fun with it, it’ s awesome to know that they have done everything they can to give me the piece to go do it. So today we’ re just out here trying to make it look boring and that’ s my motto for 2026: I’ m going to make racing boring again. everything we’ re doing off the track is correct.
You don’ t win these things at the racetrack – you win them at the shop. Nobody in this industry works harder at the shop than we do. My guys, I have to make them go home every day. It’ ll be nine o’ clock at night and I’ m like,‘ You guys have to go home,’ and they won’ t. Their answer to me is,‘ When we get to Bradenton, we don’ t work on the race cars at the track.’ We don’ t build racks here. We don’ t put spare parts
With your victory, you jumped up to second in the DIWS points standings. You’ ve won championships before, but how would this one rank, considering the level of competition? The unique nature of this race is that you have the most condensed field of talented human beings on the planet running these types of cars, so it’ s so hard to qualify. If you miss the wrong run, if you don’ t make a good run in the good session, you’ re not in. When you talk about winning one of these championships and saying you bested 80 of the baddest door cars on the planet, it’ s really an impossible feat. I would call it an impossible task, but we’ re built for chasing after impossible tasks. That’ s the dreams we all had as a kid when we decided we wanted to drag race cars.
People have been asking me when I was going to get a real job my whole life. And it’ s because I have made it my passion in life to build drag racing and to chase after impossible dreams. Can we do it? Yes, we have a team that can absolutely do it. Can 20 other people do it? Absolutely.
The U. S. Street Nationals was also the third straight Winter Series final round appearance for Killin’ Time Racing. What does that performance say about the team you’ ve assembled? It really shows that we have the right people in the right places. A lot of companies have very talented people and they just don’ t put them in the right places. KTR has a culture of letting dynamic, really talented people thrive in their environment. If there’ s one thing I’ m good at, it’ s putting the right people in the right place to let them thrive. These races are hard to win and they’ re hard to go rounds. It’ s hard just to qualify. We’ ve never not qualified for one. And like you said, if you got a KTR-powered car in a final for three races in a row, it shows that
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