TESTIMONIAL
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"The task is familiar to him—he's required to find race-winning power. But repeatedly finding power is hard, even for the most gifted. It’s a standard that requires endless attention. For the less able practitioners it can become a muddle of the mind—there are so many elements to get right. In this arena, Joe Hornick has excelled."
~George Bryce~
“Joe’s always penetrating in his observations. An absolute master at soaking up knowledge, he’s been a great help to our team.”
~Jimmy Prock, Crew Chief, John Force Racing~
“Most racing teams know Joe as the definitive authority on competition valve train, that’s how he initially became known. And it’s a reputation that’s made him near indispensable”
~ John Medlen~
“Joe is one of the smartest men I’ve met, and it’s not just his acumen at the technical frontier it’s also his capacity to know what makes people tick.”
~Jack Cornett~
Greg Anderson reflecting on the origins of the KB Pro Stock drag racing team: "I moved to Charlotte because I had been living on the coast in Jacksonville, NC, where there wasn’t a freeway within an hour's journey. We had to drive two hours to Raleigh just to reach an airplane. I finally came to the conclusion that if I was going to do this full time for a living and do it right, I needed to be more centrally located where I had access to race parts, engineering prowess, and a convenient airport. "One of the considerations was Atlanta because I had several good years there with Warren. It was a practical place to base a race team, as was Indy or Charlotte. But I settled in Charlotte as it was closer to my wife’s family. When I arrived there I got lucky; I ran into Jason Line and Joe Hornick."
~Drag Racing Online~
Jason Line speaking of an opportunity to move to KB Racing: "Joe Hornick was involved in this because he was working the engine deal with Greg and knew I was a drag racer and understood that’s what I still wanted to do. He made the suggestion to Greg that maybe sometime, if they had a spare car, he might let me try driving. "Greg invited me to work for him, but at that time I couldn’t do it because my opportunities to continue learning engine theory and discerning the lessons from dynamometer testing at Joe Gibbs Racing were too important to abandon."
~Jason Line~
“That guy is one of the sharpest engine builders out there. He was the head guy at Gibbs before he got into Pro Stock - know SSAH cars, look out here come the Barton cars.”
~Moparts Forum~
"It doesn't matter the type of racing, nobody is a one-man band. One man might have compelling ideas but…it's TEAM WORK that succeeds! I've had the fortune of being surrounded by the best people in the biz for several years, but still my move to Pro Stock was the most humbling experience a person could ever have. Nothing endures like memories though, working seven days a week, either at the engine shop or at the track, side-by-side with the team and in the company of Joe Hornick…"
~ Pro Stock Teamwork~
Scott B., Joe Hornick is joining Johnny Gray at his own engine shop. I hope they will still run the Mopar. If you do not know who Joe is, he was Greg Anderson's head engine builder for three and a half years and Jeggy's for the last two. “The P5 head that Mopar designed was already being run before Ford's head came out for the trucks. My name has never been on a qualifying sheet, but I do have a pewter Wally from winning Topeka last year as a crew chief. I don't know if that counts or not. A little known fact about Pro Stock, however, is that Joe Hornick is probably responsible for at least 80 percent of the power improvements that happened in the class in the past 10 years.”
~ Yellow Bullet~
"Greg Anderson hired the NASCAR guy Joe Hornick to come in and help them, and it was he that got their engine program going,”
~ Larry Morgan, Competition Plus~