Krusty Ramsey Measures Success Through Milestones|

Sometimes, in racing, as in life, information technology's not only nearly the victories; it's nigh the milestones, likewise.

Doorslammer ace Krusty Ramsey has won his fair share of trophies throughout his decades-long career. There are moments, still, that transcend the notion of wins and losses; this past summer offer a perfect instance.

Ramsey, a regular in the recently rebranded Premier (formerly Pacific) Street Car Association's eighth-mile Outlaw 8.5 class, was poised to accept the 2015 title in the PSCA's Rocky Mountain Summertime Series at Bandimere Speedway, about Denver. Ramsey'due south legendary, nitrous-equipped 1978 Chevy Malibu was at the testify and not simply won the race, but set up upshot records in both speed and elapsed fourth dimension, too. But the man himself wasn't there. He elected to miss the race—and the opportunity to take the flavor title—in order to attend the wedding of his best friend'south son.

Milestones.

Ramsey's greatest memory at the drag strip doesn't involve winning, either. It involves an amazing pass 3 years ago during the Street Car Super Nationals (SCSN) at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

"When nosotros went 4.98 (at Vegas) we didn't win, but it was the showtime nitrous car to go in the 4s and information technology was just amazing. Information technology was the coolest thing e'er," he said approximately five minutes after laying downwards a 4.82-2nd run at this year's SCSN event. "I didn't even come here thinking near the four-2nd zone. We just wanted to go faster. We went (5).50s, then we went .20s; nosotros just needed to go faster, then we had Bischoff build the motor and we came here and went iv.98 on it."

The man who earned his nickname from the infamous clown on The Simpsons (his real name's Brent, by the way, although good luck getting him to answer to it), comes past his drag habit honestly. He was raised at the drag strip by a father who passed his honey of win lights down to a son more than eager to take up the cause.

The senior Ramsey raced Comp and C Altered in a '48 Anglia with Krusty ever on hand to assist. When the junior Ramsey was fifteen, the pair built a V-eight Vega. Predictably, the local gendarmes became acquainted with the immature racer almost immediately.

"Drove it around on the street, had my license for almost four days, and got a 12-indicate ticket," he said. "I had to call my dad to get my ass outta' jail and he said, 'Did you lot beat him?' That was the first thing out of him. He wasn't mad at me; he just wanted to know if I beat him. I've raced always since."

Milestones.

His pairing with the familiar olive greenish-and-blackness Malibu that has terrorized drag strips all over the West Coast was initiated when he began racing with PSCA in what was then known as the Limited class.

"Paul Klyczek and I ran the machine for two years until Limited went away and Outlaw 8.5 became a class," Ramsey explained. "Paul was racing the machine and a customer of his endemic information technology; he merely let u.s.a. race information technology. He needed to sell the car to put his child through college, so I bought the car and allow Paul terminate racing information technology for like a year."

While Ramsey, whose "real job" is the trunk store he owns near his home in Peckham, Colorado, has yet to win the SCSN in Las Vegas, he earned the inaugural win at its sister event in St. Louis last yr and was runner-up there this year. The win at Gateway Motorsports Park was doubly impressive not merely due to the field of racers at the event, but the fact that ambience temperatures on event weekend were in the triple digits. He said making the switch to a new tire was a large factor in the win.

"Some of the smart kids had been running Hoosiers before united states," he said, "and the offset race we put a Hoosier on the machine, we won the (Rocky Mountain Summertime Series) race in Denver and and so we won in St. Louis. We idea it was pretty fast at the time for the amount of nitrous we had in the combination."

Milestones.

Mel Roth, president of the PSCA as well as promoter for SCSN, said Ramsey'southward racing mode comes from the veteran commuter's intensity of focus and his lack of apologies. "He'due south all or nothing," Roth described. "Krusty uses every bit of his nitrous pocket-size block on each and every pass. He wants to be the number-one qualifier and he wants to win no affair what parts or opponents' feelings he hurts forth the way."

Ramsey is every bit complimentary of Roth and the event he'southward congenital at Las Vegas from the ground up, a race that historic its 11th running this Nov.

"It'southward Mel, homo," Ramsey declared when asked why he believes the Street Auto Super Nationals is the premier doorslammer race in the country. "He puts together the blue-chip race on the planet. The employees are nice; the tech guys are nice; the lady at the gate's overnice. You don't get that stuff at all the race tracks. There's a different atmosphere here. People intendance almost what nosotros exercise."

Intensity, bulldoze, and a finely-tuned car are fine things, but for Ramsey, there's a expert gamble he has 1 more advantage over his opponents; a underground weapon. Socks.

His mighty Malibu isn't the merely famous matter nearly Ramsey. He's likewise well-known for his random footwear. "I've always simply wore dissimilar colored socks," he said. "I have a 5-gallon, bandage-iron milk bucket from the '50s or '60s next to my dresser and my wife puts all my socks in there. I have people send me socks who I don't know. In the mail, I'll go a sock. I don't know who it's from. It's weird."

Foot gloves aside, Ramsey has built a career off speed and relationships. The PSCA promotes him on t-shirts, DVDs, and its Facebook page due to his willingness to do whatever he can to make the serial bigger and stronger.

"The PSCA is all about family and so is Krusty Ramsey," Roth said. "If anyone needs anything, whether it's racing related or in real life, Krusty and his amazing wife Meg are correct there with the needed office, lending hand or a hug. Even when we're not racing, Krusty and his family unit have fourth dimension out of their decorated lives to aid the PSCA promote its events."

Ramsey, for his office, appreciates being involved so deeply in the series, one that continues to abound.

"I think it's amazing," he said. "Information technology'southward so absurd to exist office of something and then big. I know nosotros're in the Podunk 8.v class and you've got half-a-million-dollar Pro Mods here; nosotros're a big part of that show. There are guys with, easily, quarter-million-dollar viii.5 cars. It'south unreal. It's stupid the amount of money we spend to practise this; just I tin can't not do it. Information technology's what makes me wake up in the morn."

And continue to go later on those milestones.

Story by Brandon W. Mudd

This story originally appeared in Drag Illustrated Issue No. 105, the Champions Event, in Nov of 2015.

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