Racing People

[Frasson118]

My parents took me to Spencer Speerway, in Williamson NY about 1968 or '68. I fell in love immediately.

The next day, while visiting family in Buffalo, I told my cousin Denny about the coolest thing in the world that I had seen the night before. He says "Me and Dad go almost every week to Lancaster Speedway". I was AMAZED that this cool new thing ran in HIS hometown too!

So, now I had 2 tracks to go to, and a new passion in my life. 41 or 42 years later, I've been to nearly 90 different tracks, seen almost all forms of Motorsport, and witenssed somewhere around 1000 races.

Unlike some, I have never felt burned out by racing, although I found it more enjoyable to go a handful of new tracks, versus seeing a regular show at the usual places. Sometimes I have to skip a few weeks close to home, to be able to travel to new & different places.

I go more for quality rather than quantity these days... but still average around 25 per year (this year was 11 different tracks... my best year was 20 different tracks in 6 different states).

[SeminoleWind]

My dad started taking my brothers, myself and some of the neighborhood kids to West Palm Speedway in the early seventies. By the time the eighties rolled in, I was old enough to drive and went down to Hialeah Speedway alot with some friends. Dad never liked Hialeah, thought there was too much crime. In the mid eighties, my whole family moved to Atlanta. After I finished college at FSU, I started racing ministocks at Lanier Speedway. My dad still comes to the races to help out with the SuperTruck.
No intention of a plug, but I even started a racing related business, www.RaceDaySafety.com. My wife, educated in retail sales, does a great job of running the business.
I love all types of racing: Supercross, Formula 1, Rally Cars, Dirt Late Models, but nothing will ever compare to my memories of South Florida asphalt racing in the 1970's and 80's.
Great Thread!

[Jane]

I guess you could say my Alex was born to race. He went to the racers, inside of mommy, the whole 9 months I was pregnant and back when he was about 2 months old. The cars never bothered him at all, guess that was from going before he came out, and he would sleep peacefully in his carrier at the track. Of course he was kindof different because here was a newborn with casts on his hands and feet loving the noise of the cars.

As he got older, he wanted closer to the cars and loved the nights they had kids rides in the racecars. Eventually, between him and his sister, they got his dad to build a runabout and the rest is history. Alex, even with bent hands and casts and braces, started driving and the funny thing was, the little stinker could handle a car. He surprised everyone and loved it.


Alex has not lost his love for racing just don't have the money right now to buy a dirt car but that is what he wants to do more than anything and he is good at it. Although he has never raced dirt, only asphalt, I am sure he will do just fine on dirt also. Sometimes we get thrown curves in life but Alex takes his curves and makes them work for him and one thing he can definitely do is drive.

When he finally got his first big boy's bed, of course, it had to be a racecar bed, Jeff Gordon to be exact. He loves Jeff Gordon and always has. And you will find racecars photos, models, and something from Jeff Gordon in his bedroom still to this day.