“Drag racing is in my blood. My daddy and his brother started when they were teenagers. They did mud racing and dirt racing. My uncle was killed in a car wreck in 2008 and I took over then and started driving the truck. It took me two years to get good at it. I have it down pat now and love it. You have to learn how to let off the gas, watch the other truck, keep going straight down the track and keep an eye on your gauges.There is so much going on with the truck. Make one thing wrong and you could wreck or lose the race. You have to do everything exactly the same every race. It takes me 4.4 seconds to get the end. My top speed is 90 miles an hour. Last year I hit the guard rail in a race and lost control of my truck, barely scraped the guard rail and had to get a body job. I wasn’t scared until I got sideways and hit the track. That gets into your head quick. Somehow I regained control. Thank God I didn’t flip. I have wanted to do this since I was a little kid. This is my passion. I don’t ever want to stop. One day I will go back to mud racing. It takes a lot of money to mud race and I just graduated from the police academy and don’t have a lot of money. You can win $500 or $1000 in a race. The most I have won is $2000. I travel around the state doing this. My truck is a 1972 Chevrolet Stepside with a small block. It has almost 900 horses and its name is Stroker. I work on it almost every night. Right now it is outstanding and hasn’t broken since last year and has been running like a top. i have about $30,000 in my truck. That ain’t a lot. Some have from $60-70,000. I will always keep the truck, I may give the motor to my daddy and get a different engine so I can go faster. I would be running about 100 miles per hour with a bigger engine. It is a big money pit and you never get your money back. You just do it for fun.”