[T.O.Dillinder]

WARNING THIS MAY BE A LITTLE BIT OF A READ.

My Grandfather use to race with the Thunder Valley Motorcycle Club in the 40's and 50's. The formats were primarily oval, hill climb, and trail.
My Father in the 60's drag raced at Union Grove (WI) and Byron (IL), and in the 70's he raced short track at Rockford (IL) Speedway. However My father would always make the yearly trip for the June Sprints at Road America.
Myself, I did karts in the 80's, AMA Motorcycles (Road Racing) and AutoX in the early 90's. Even earned a Comp Liscence that I ended up not using.
There is a whole list of people that have helped in some form or another along the way. I would have to say the biggeset and closest names that have been Dave Watson, Ray Irwin, and Gerre Payvis. As mentioned there have been others that have given support such as John Eberhardt, Bob Denton, Steve Butzen, Rick and Jill Peters, and Phil Daus.
I just wanted to thank these people for their assistance, advice, and friendship.
what I love about road racing is economics, seat time, and the variety of makes and models that are involved.
Economics:
If you were to fiqure what it cost for every minute you are in the seat, road racing comes out being cheaper than circle track and drag racing combined.
Seat time:
20 to 30 minute practice session, 20 to 30 minute qualifing session, and a 30 minute race each Friday and Saturday.
Your HPDE has 20 to 30 minute sessions, and that is usually three sesions per day for each group.
road racing provides tons of seat time.
Different makes and models:
No matter what kind of racing you do, we all have one common factor. They love of the automobile.
A road racing event is like a car show with the added benefit to see those cars perform.
Sorry for the length, but now you know a little about me.
So, what got you hooked?

This post has been edited by T.O.Dillinder: Nov 18 2007, 04:47 PM

[Crazy Canuck]

always loved cars and bikes.
Got into bikes, and also racing them.
After a few track accidents, i started thinking about car racing... but nothing came out of it... continued on bikes.
My street bike got totalled on a heads-on collision going ~80-85... I ended-up not getting anything due to proper safety gear, but the bike was totalled.
That made me buy the SS.
With the SS, got the interest on learning to drive it better under controlled environments... so i started looking for places w/ schools, track time, and came accross solo1/solo2.
Actually what caught my mind is that solo2 in my mind maid more sense being called solo1 because one would think that you are better off learning @ lower speeds and concentrating on techniques...
anyways, that got me into autox... and the rest is history (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
Took me awhile to get used to the difference in lines and visibility @ tracks compared to bikes. Maybe I should've found a car where i'm seated in the center of the car... lol

[wdtiger]

I've always been into motorsports in general. If it has an engine and wheels, i'll probably watch it and want to drive it (and that includes the two wheel variety). My dad used to drag race a 1972 Chevy Nova. It was a bad mamajama. He's the one that got me into racing. We used to watch NASCAR races when i was a kid (4-5 years old, so 81-82). Back when NASCAR was cool and had some good racing. As far as road racing, that was Formula 1 and Indycars (when they were still Indycars). These days, i don't watch much NASCAR (i hate that Car of Tomorrow BS, the "Chase for the Cup" is lame and NASCAR died with Earnhardt Sr.), my love of Formula 1 is strong as ever and IRL just doesn't do it for me. So, really any racing is good enough for me, although road racing is my drug of choice.

I used to do kart racing with 100cc Yamaha engined karts. I've crewed for late model dirt cars. But that was in my teens. It's only been in the last couple of years that i've been able to get back into racing my own cars. Being in Alaska though, my choices are limited to autocross, a couple of circle tracks (a dirt track and a tiny 1/5 mile paved oval), ice racing in the Winter, and two or three track days a year in the Summer at an old airport thats a five hour drive away.

This post has been edited by wdtiger: Nov 27 2007, 09:35 PM