{"id":103796,"date":"2026-06-04T20:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/stevie-jackson-killin-time-racing-launch-ktr-u-education-courses\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T20:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:44:11","slug":"stevie-jackson-killin-time-racing-launch-ktr-u-education-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/stevie-jackson-killin-time-racing-launch-ktr-u-education-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Stevie Jackson, Killin\u2019 Time Racing Launch KTR-U Education Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"

KTR Drag Racing has launched KTR-U, a tuning education program run out of the\u00a0company\u2019s Thomson, Georgia, facility, with the first classes set to roll out in the coming weeks. Founder Stevie \u201cFast\u201d Jackson announced the program on the latest episode of the Shake and Bake Show, with additional details to follow in the days after.<\/p>\n

Jackson has spent most of his racing and engine-building career holding KTR\u2019s\u00a0process and data inside the building. By his own admission, he refused for years to teach what he knew because he was afraid of training his own replacement. That stance is now gone.<\/p>\n

\u201cI used to very much covet our process and data to the point that I would never\u00a0teach anyone how to do anything in drag racing because you\u2019re fearful that you\u2019re going to teach somebody smarter than you that\u2019s going to replace you,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cWell, KTR is taking a 180-degree backdoor back swing on that. We\u2019re going the other way.\u201d<\/p>\n

The opening curriculum centers on the two ECUs most common in the Pro Mod\u00a0and outlaw pits: FuelTech and Holley. Jackson said KTR plans to run roughly one course on each platform every month, then gauge demand from there.<\/p>\n

According to the KTR-U website<\/a>, courses include a course workbook, a KTR\u00a0backpack and merch, lunch both days of the class, and discounted\u00a0accommodations and the local Hampton Inn. Graduates will receive a KTR-U Certificate of Completion.<\/p>\n

Advanced courses come next, with a higher bar to enter. The advanced material is\u00a0where KTR-U starts to look unlike any tuner school the sport has produced. Jackson said the program will teach traction control, O2 correction, wheelspeed management, and the math behind blower-overdrive ratios. Students will need to complete a beginner course before they are eligible.<\/p>\n

Eventually, Jackson said, the program will move from the classroom to the\u00a0racetrack. KTR-U plans to rent track time, bring out 10 to 20 cars at a time, and put students in real tuning situations on real combinations.<\/p>\n

The instructors are not just Jackson. He said KTR will use multiple instructors\u00a0across the program and assign whoever is sharpest on a given subject to teach it. Jackson cited his prior involvement in the launch of the tuner school at Hennessey Performance as the template.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more people that we can get to tune cars, the more race cars we can get,\u201d\u00a0Jackson said.<\/p>\n

That line is the business case. Drag racing\u2019s growth ceiling is increasingly capped\u00a0by talent. There are more drivers and teams looking for crew chiefs and tuners than there are qualified people to fill those roles. Jackson\u2019s own staffing pipeline benefits if the school works. So does every other team trying to hire.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want to just teach you how to do it,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cWe want to make\u00a0your car better. Make it where I can hire y\u2019all to run cars for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

For a tuner who built his reputation on what he would not share, KTR-U is a\u00a0public bet that giving the playbook away is now the better long-term move \u2013 both\u00a0for KTR and for the sport.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published on June 4, 2026. \"Drag<\/p>\n

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KTR Drag Racing has launched KTR-U, a tuning education program run out of the\u00a0company\u2019s Thomson, Georgia, facility, with the first classes set to roll out in the coming weeks. Founder Stevie \u201cFast\u201d Jackson announced the program on the latest episode of the Shake and Bake Show, with additional details to follow in the days after. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}