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Andy McCoy
Race Cars Sponsors Pro Boost in 2017
Rossler Transmissions Provides Low Qualifier Award
PITTSBORO, N.C. (February 3, 2017): Andy McCoy Race Cars
has been a staunch PDRA supporter since the series’
inception. Now the premier chassis builder is increasing
involvement by stepping up to sponsor PDRA’s Pro Boost
category for the 2017 season. As well as backing the
incredible Pro Boost action this season, Andy McCoy Race
Cars is sponsoring the ‘Ask the Pros’ segment on the PDRA/Speed
Video Live Feed for the second consecutive year.
Andy McCoy Race Cars Pro Boost has been a wildly popular
category, both in terms of racer participation and fan
response. Pitting different power adders against one
another, Pro Boost is reminiscent of Pro Mod’s beginnings
and provides similar excitement as turbocharged and import
entries continue to increase, battling the more
traditional blown, domestic machines. Andy McCoy Race
Cars’ customer Tylor Miller of the Pee Dee Fleet team runs
in the category and hopes to overtake the domination of
GALOT Motorsports team members exhibited last season. He
will debut a new AMRC-special body, a 1979 Corvette, later
this year. AMRC is also building a new Pro Boost ride for
Chris Russo, among others.
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“It’s a very exciting class,
a very healthy class,” McCoy said of PB. “Throughout the year we
maintained at least a 16 car field. When the class first started they were
running 3.90s. Low 3.70s is the number now. It’s exciting to see it grow.
In the PDRA you get to see a variety of really cool cars.”
McCoy hints that Miller’s new Corvette will likely debut around the time
the PDRA stops at the Miller family-owned Darlington Dragway. Other ‘79
Corvette bodies have already gone overseas to Australia, Sweden and
Germany.
AMRC debuted an industry-leading website last fall. Clients can build a
custom AMRC car right on the site and receive an immediate quote of cost.
Parts and accessories are also available for purchase through the AMRC
site.
“Our new online store has started taking off. We’re pretty excited about
it. We do composite bodies and parts. Over in the fab shop we build the
race cars. Then we expanded into the online parts - anything that goes on
a race car you can buy. But now we’ve also ventured out a little bit into
something different from other chassis builders. We’ve come out with our
own energy drink. It’s already taking off and doing well. We named it Pro
Boost so that we could hand it out in the PDRA to all the Pro Boost teams.
We’ll walk around to all the [Pro Boost] guys, welcome them back to the
PDRA and give them some energy drinks on us for coming and running with
us. We want to work hand-in-hand with the PDRA to make this thing better
for everyone involved. We want to do more than sponsor the class. This is
a partnership. Let’s see how many people we can reach, together, to build
the PDRA up.”
Pro Boost energy drinks are currently available at
www.andymccoyracecars.com,
convenience stores local to the company’s base in Washington, Missouri and
at the Pee Dee Fleet trailer at PDRA events.
“We always put God first in everything we do because if it wasn’t for Him
I wouldn’t be here and do what I do,” added McCoy. “All my guys in the
shop - I want to thank them. They come in here and work hard, give up time
with their families to help this business grow.”
For the fourth year in a row, Rossler Transmissions is sponsoring the Pro
Boost Low Qualifier award. Every Pro Boost number one qualifier receives
$500 thanks to Rossler Transmissions. Over the past 36 years, Rossler has
built some of the strongest transmissions in the industry. A Rossler
transmission was on the first automatic Pro Mod. It was also the
transmission aboard for the first Pro Mod five second run in the
quarter-mile. The company boasts its own machine shop to develop specially
designed components and continue raising the bar for performance
transmissions. In strength, durability and performance, Rossler
Transmissions refuses to skimp.
“From the very beginning we’ve never stopped trying new ideas,” emphasized
Carl Rossler. “That goes hand in hand with the number one qualifier. Every
year the cars get faster. You think it can’t possibly get any faster, but
it does. We want to reward those people who are pushing the evolution of
the sport to go faster. It’s a small way to help them be proud of what
they’ve accomplished. There’s a lot of smart people out there, always
thinking about the next move. That’s the same as us; we’re always looking
towards the future. Even when our stuff is working well we’re constantly
trying to reinvent the wheel.”
ABOUT THE PDRA
Based in Pittsboro, North Carolina, the Professional Drag Racers
Association is the top sanctioning body in the United States for the sport
of eighth-mile drag racing. The PDRA’s professional categories include Pro
Extreme, Pro Nitrous, Pro Boost, Extreme Pro Stock and Pro Extreme
Motorcycle along with several sportsman and various exhibition categories.
The 2017 PDRA schedule consists of eight national events. For more on the
world’s premier eighth-mile drag racing organization visit
www.pdra660.com.
Follow the PDRA:
Facebook,
Instagram,
YouTube.
Action Racing
Photo: Gary Rowe / PDRA660.com
PRESS CONTACT: Lisa Collier
Professional Drag Racers Association
lisa@pdra660.com
704.692.4636
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