Shootout Racer Profile: Slug Hefner & John Cosker

Driver: Slug Hefner

Thottleman: John Cosker 

Boat Owner: Don Onken

Boat make/model: 2013 51 ft. Mystic with 4 Chevrolet V8 Engines, fully capsulized carbon fiber boat

Boat Name: American Ethanol

Port of Call: Lake of the Ozarks 

Shootout Race Classification: PC6P4R

Horsepower: 9,000 hp

Modifications: Air intakes, tunnel tab extension, lengthened the hull, Arneson surface drives, 85% ethanol, SCS gear boxes, Vortech Superchargers, Holly Electronics. 

One Off (the only boat built like it). 

Highest Speed: 220 mph (The world’s fastest speed piston driven offshore boat) 

Notable Races/Runs/Wins: 

2016: LOTO Shootout PC6P4R Top Gun 217 mph

2016: GLOC Top Gun 206 mph

2015: LOTO Shootout Top Gun Overall 208 mph 

1990-2014 LOTO Shootout Division Top Gun

2016: Lucas Oil Drag Boat Series

2016: Offshore Series: World Finals and National Point Standing: 2^nd Place 

2016: Offshore Series: Cleveland, St. Petersburg, Marathon: 1^st Place

Sponsor(s): American Ethanol, South Dakota/Washington, D.C., Mystic Powerboats, Deland, Fla., Big Thunder Marine, LOTO.

Business: 

Slug: Hefner Furniture and Appliance, Poplar Bluff and Farmington, Mo.  

John: Mystic Powerboats, Owner (a Mystic has won 4 of the last 5 LOTO Shootouts)

Family: 

Slug: Three daughters: Quaker, Fathom & Topper. 1. Quaker (She was supposed to be born on the day an earthquake was predicted on the New Madrid Fault Line). 2. Fathom (She was born during the Great 1993 Flood) 3. Topper (The result of being asked, after drinking a six-pack, how he was going to top the other two names-Her full name is Marina Topper Hefner because he was at a marina when she was born).  

John: Married to Robin with two children