How did you get started in Drag Racing?

goinbroke2 · 02-08-2024, 02:58 PM

I'll try to be short...

I grew up in a whole family (cousins etc) that all raced stock cars at a local track about 3 miles from my uncles. I started driving stock cars at 14. After building a car (for 3 months) that was quicker than anything in my class by almost 2 seconds, first evening running it it was destroyed by someone else's mistake. (Car in front checked up, I slowed and the guy behind me tapped me and spun me sideways where another car ran over my nose destroying the car) I was so mad I decided then and there I will never run or even watch another stock car race. Then in grade 11 I had an automotive teacher (Mel Moir) who had us build two cars for the "school boy competition" where schools all over the province built and drag raced their car against other students. I was hooked and have been drag racing since.

(this is still a thing and when my youngest got out of juniors he went and was the only NS car competing against all the NB cars. He got 3rd)

My kids story is, I bought him a junior for his 10th birthday and he drove it until 17 where he went on to sportsman but has since been too involved in the military to race much.(an excuse as far as I'm concerned, lol) We ran against each other in the Miramichi last year and I had a .018 light to his .030 and dumped him at the stripe, lol.

02-08-2024, 02:58 PM	#27
goinbroke2 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: NS CANADA Posts: 902 Likes: 1,722 Liked 405 Times in 158 Posts	Re: How did you get started in Drag Racing? I'll try to be short... I grew up in a whole family (cousins etc) that all raced stock cars at a local track about 3 miles from my uncles. I started driving stock cars at 14. After building a car (for 3 months) that was quicker than anything in my class by almost 2 seconds, first evening running it it was destroyed by someone else's mistake. (Car in front checked up, I slowed and the guy behind me tapped me and spun me sideways where another car ran over my nose destroying the car) I was so mad I decided then and there I will never run or even watch another stock car race. Then in grade 11 I had an automotive teacher (Mel Moir) who had us build two cars for the "school boy competition" where schools all over the province built and drag raced their car against other students. I was hooked and have been drag racing since. (this is still a thing and when my youngest got out of juniors he went and was the only NS car competing against all the NB cars. He got 3rd) My kids story is, I bought him a junior for his 10th birthday and he drove it until 17 where he went on to sportsman but has since been too involved in the military to race much.(an excuse as far as I'm concerned, lol) We ran against each other in the Miramichi last year and I had a .018 light to his .030 and dumped him at the stripe, lol.