Racing, even today, is a tight knit family.  When we entered into the sport in the seventies it was even tighter.  It was amazing how a set number of racers controlled the sport and the technology being applied.  Many had the ear of NASCAR and the rules reflected that control.  Until 1981 you basically had [...]

Although I heard all about the races and driver my father liked, it wasn’t until the mid sixties that I got the opportunity to experience racing first hand.  I was probably 7 or 8 years old when my father, my cousin John and I ventured into the old Speedway Park in the middle of Jacksonville, [...]

At a local event while I was doing a workshop on chassis dynamics, I asked if there were any questions.  A young man in his early teens looked at me and asked; “Did you ever meet Earnhardt?”  Over two hours of hardcore chassis design and theory this young man wanted to know something irreverent to [...]