12-20-2005, 09:17 PM
hrm....first the abbreviated version. Ill go back and edit in more detail when I get time.
Ive always been into cars...never knew how to get into racing (or had the $$ anyway)
Senior year of college i saw the MM flyers, and went to the first meeting, went to a few other meetings and flagged at jefferson circuit for a weekend.
Graduated, bought a WRX, and immediately started AutoXing it w/ karen and the NASA program in her winter series. Got hooked on autoX and did one about every weekend.
That June I did my first track event at Summit (this was also Maeng's, and I think RJs first event) I was hooked again and started doing track weekends at every chance, sometimes 3 a month (to the detriment of my visa bill) with every club under the sun, like the alfa romeo club!
that was the beginning, and I think you guys pretty much know the rest...the more I tracked, the less I autoXed,
after doing about 15 weekends of HPDE I took the NASA instructor school and became an instructor....the same weekend I put my wrx into the wall at VIR.
That year was a slow year since I didnt have a car and was recovering from my severe credit card debt, but I managed to drive maeng's pile a couple times (and my wrinkled wrx for a weekend or 2 also) and flagged for CarGuys a lot.
then came the miata..... a couple years of instructing and whoring up the track with it, and now on to wheel to wheel racing!
Ive always been into cars...never knew how to get into racing (or had the $$ anyway)
Senior year of college i saw the MM flyers, and went to the first meeting, went to a few other meetings and flagged at jefferson circuit for a weekend.
Graduated, bought a WRX, and immediately started AutoXing it w/ karen and the NASA program in her winter series. Got hooked on autoX and did one about every weekend.
That June I did my first track event at Summit (this was also Maeng's, and I think RJs first event) I was hooked again and started doing track weekends at every chance, sometimes 3 a month (to the detriment of my visa bill) with every club under the sun, like the alfa romeo club!
that was the beginning, and I think you guys pretty much know the rest...the more I tracked, the less I autoXed,
after doing about 15 weekends of HPDE I took the NASA instructor school and became an instructor....the same weekend I put my wrx into the wall at VIR.
That year was a slow year since I didnt have a car and was recovering from my severe credit card debt, but I managed to drive maeng's pile a couple times (and my wrinkled wrx for a weekend or 2 also) and flagged for CarGuys a lot.
then came the miata..... a couple years of instructing and whoring up the track with it, and now on to wheel to wheel racing!