[Cajundaddy]

Pretty young. My dad always loved cars, motorcycles, and airplanes and we usually had one of the above being brought back from the dead in our garage. He grew up dirt poor and would find some rusted heap out in a field and pay the farmer $25 to haul it away. Over time he got pretty good at getting them running and would drag race his latest rat rod.

We always watched the Indy 500 on TV and some days he would hear about a team doing testing out at Riverside Raceway. We would jump in the car and drive out, park in the dirt and just walk into the hot pits to find Dan Gurney, Wally Dallenbach, or some other top driver from the 60s prepping for a major race. This is the stuff that got my juices flowing and motorsport became a game I wanted to play.