Pete Dove's corn-livery Fuel Altered launching at Darana Motorsports Park with header flames

New Dove Motorsports, Fuel Altered AA/FA 3816

Pete Dove Back from the Ashes

A farmer for 40 years and hooked on nitro since 1987. Pete built his corn-car Fuel Altered from what a shop fire left behind, and he named it Back from the Ashes.

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3816AA/FA, Back from the Ashes, the corn car

2 finalsIHRA Outlaw Nitro Fuel Altered, West Salem and Dunn, 2025

11on the crew, from five states

1987his first nitro warm-up. Hooked for life

Back from the Ashes

Pete Dove farmed for 40 years around Shelbyville, Illinois. In 1987 a friend took him to the U.S. Nationals, and his first nitro warm-up hooked him for life. He went from bracket racing to crewing on a Top Alcohol Dragster that won NHRA national and division races, Indy in 1992 among them.

He came back to nitro in the 2000s, started collecting parts for a Fuel Altered in 2018, and went to work with the Lawson family, who licensed him in their funny car at Joliet. In 2020 the Lawsons' shop burned. A few weeks later John Lawson called and told Pete to come get what was left and see what could be used. With a chassis and parts already on hand, that became Back from the Ashes, the corn car, painted at John Lawson's Auto Rebuilders.

Pete's own shop grew a machine shop, The Shop at County Road 7, and Dove Fuels, which supplies nitromethane and methanol to racers. In 2025 Pete made the final at the last two IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series races, at West Salem, Ohio, and at the season finale in Dunn, North Carolina. Both finals went to drivers who race with us now: Ryan Hill and Paul Miller.

Pete's team exists because other people gave him chances, and he wants to pass those chances on. That's what our races are for.

A Dove Motorsports crewman in the pit, hands black to the elbows, holding a shop towel — Black to the elbows

All in with Pete

Skilled work, with a clean finish.

Built by the trades

Eleven on the crew

From five states, each with a job: car chief and clutch, crew chief, cylinder heads, bottom end, fuel and oil. A Fuel Altered isn't torn down every round. It's skilled work, done right.

Skilled Works

Dove Fuels

The nitro man

Pete's fuel company supplies racers with nitromethane and methanol, and it sponsors our Christmas tree game, Beat The Tree.

Race the tree

The help we bring

The work between rounds

Sponsors and decks, travel and stays, and photos and recaps, built around the races the corn car runs.

Racing services

Dove Motorsports

In the pits

The Dove Motorsports crew lined up in the shop — In the shop

The supercharged nitro engine on the bench in the hauler — On the bench

The corn car in the pit under the Logue and Dove wing — Logue & Dove

Pete Dove's corn car and Ryan Hill's Nitro Bandido side by side at night with header flames — Under the lights with Ryan HillPhoto: Dragzine

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All inPete rebuilt a race car out of a fire. That's the kind of team your company rides with.
Extra effortWe work the pits, the paperwork and the photos, so your partnership shows up at every race.
Never quitIt's how Pete races, and it's how we work for the companies behind him.

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