If the equipment and the people involved in his program are any indication, Steve Woolley will be a household name in radial-tire racing circles in fairly short order.
Woolley, a veteran of the sport who moved up to the Pro 275 ranks this season, has debuted this shimmering new 2018 Chevrolet Corvette to the class, ands he’s quickly gotten the attention of his peers, photographers, and the media alike. The C7 is, uniquely, one of just a handful of screw-supercharged engine combinations presently competing out of the Pro Line Racing camp, an engine builder traditionally synonymous with turbochargers and centrifugal superchargers.
Photos by Jesse Williams
“I started racing back when I was 16,” says Steve, who like many, was introduced to the hobby by his father. “My dad pushed me from day one, I really had no choice. He told me to get in the car and drive, and I was good at it and we had a lot of fun and I stuck with it. I had a couple crappy cars, and we just lost everywhere…we were a serious donator.” To illustrate how far Woolley, a milling and paving contractor, has come, his earliest race car had steel road signs covering parts of the floorboard. Contrast that with this world-class build and Woolley has no doubt done well for himself. “We had a low budget and couldn’t afford the cars, so it was all dirty stuff,” he shares of his humble beginnings.
After that car, an early-model Camaro, Woolley in his late teens bought a 1966 Chevrolet Nova and transformed it in time into a 3.7-second thoroughbred. He campaigned that car first in Outlaw Big Tire competition, then Outlaw Drag Radial and later Outlaw 10.5, chalking up wins in every one of them over the course of a couple of decades.
“It was 2011 when we got hooked up with Pro Line, and they built us five different engine combinations, all turbo, but different types of engines,” Steve tells. “We started off with a small-block, then a big-block, a 481X, a Stage IV 481X, and we built the…
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