Q & A with Greg Boyd

Greg Boyd, 45 years old from Washington, Indiana in the USA. Greg together with his dad Steve owns the Green Streak Pulling Team which is currently competing with 2 multi Hemi V8 powered Unlimited tractors and a V8 Hemi powered mini rod on NTPA Grand National and Lucas Oil PPL Champions Tour rounds in the USA. He's the driver of the modified tractor called ''Green Streak Unlimited'' and also have won the Lucas Oil PPL Champions Tour title in the super modified class in 2018. Currently, Greg also shares driving duty with his oldest son Austin on the Green Streak Unlimited. Also his brother Michael Boyd is a successful pulling competitor in the PPL Champions Tour, who owns 2 John Deere component pro stock tractors.

Another interesting point by the side, the Green Streak Pulling Team is sponsored by Lucas Oil Products for 17 years now.

 

pullingworld.com: What are you doing in your normal life?

Greg Boyd: My Father Steve and I own Boyd and Sons. At Boyd and Sons, we have 5 main divisions. Boyd and Sons Farm is a grain farm raising 6,000 acres of Corn and Soybeans. Boyd and Sons Inc is a nationwide flatbed trucking company with 80 trucks pulling flatbeds all over the USA. Boyd and Sons Machinery is a heavy equipment parts distributor selling undercarriage parts, rubber tracks all over the USA as well as selling used equipment and new trailers for companies like MAC, Reitnouer, XL Specialized and B-B trailers., Bobcat of Daviess County is a full line Bobcat dealer in our home city and Boyd and Sons Performance is our performance shop that we build hi performance engines fir pullers and drag racers worldwide.

pullingworld.com: What do you like to do in your free time, except Tractor Pulling?

Greg Boyd: I personally enjoy spending time with my family and 3 sons. We live in Indiana and love basketball. I still coach my youngest son and his 6th-grade basketball team.

pullingworld.com: What do you like about Tractor Pulling?

Greg Boyd: The people you meet and the competition you run against makes it fun. Lots of great people involved in the sport.

pullingworld.com: What was your first Tractor Pulling event?

Greg Boyd: Don't remember, very young age.

pullingworld.com: What is your favorite Event / Pulling track?

Greg Boyd: Lots of great ones, Henry, IL, Bowling Green, OH  are two of my favorites.

pullingworld.com: When and where do you have driven a Pulling Tractor for the first time?

Greg Boyd: Outlaw Tractor Pull in Davenport, IA in 1998.

pullingworld.com: What was your biggest success?

Greg Boyd: Personally winning the PPL championship in 2008 with a pro stock tractor and then 2018 with the 4 engine modified. As a team getting to represent the USA in Ahoy was great!

pullingworld.com: Which Pulling classes do you like too?

Greg Boyd: Modified, Mini and Pro Stocks are my favorite 3.

pullingworld.com: What was your biggest disappointment?

Greg Boyd: Not winning another championship in 2019. My team had done a great job all season and I didn't do the best job driving on some tricky tracks throughout the season.

pullingworld.com: Which things must be changed in the future of the Tractor Pulling sport?

Greg Boyd: The USA organizations do a great job. They just have to continue what they do.

pullingworld.com: What are your plans for the future in Tractor Pulling?

Greg Boyd: At this time keep running in the modified and mini rod classes as well as help our customers get to the top and stay there.

pullingworld.com: What was for you the most important moment in the sport?

Greg Boyd: Winning my first time down the track at Bowling Green OH in 1999 allowed me to realize we could compete with anyone if we did things right. 

pullingworld.com: What was your favorite Pulling Tractor project in the workshop during a winter?

Greg Boyd: Building the first Green Streak Pro Stock in the winter of 1997/1998. It was a John Deere 4455.

 

pullingworld.com: Something you want to say?  

Greg Boyd: The pulling world is filled with a lot of great people. God had blessed our family with the opportunity to get to know lots of families around the world that we would have never gotten to know without the sport.  

  

pullingworld.com: Thank you for your time and good luck for the future