Drag racers are by far the most awesome and cool people I have met in I don't know how long. I can't think of many other places that you could go and have an almost instant friendship with people who you have never really met before or only slightly know. (except for import races
So it's been quite a long time since I have been actually racing at the track as I have been putting a lot of things in my life together financially and although I could afford it I quit racing to help my future out. So 99% of the time my attendance at the track has just been watching and helping out with friends cars.
Saturday I decide it's time to start racing and having fun again before I start building the car and get some baseline runs. I get the car all washed up and ready to go and head to PIR and as I am going through tech they tell me that my battery is not properly strapped down and that I can't race until it is.
So I look around and see 3 Fox bodies together and head on over and put the wheelchair together and hop out of the car and introduce myself and ask if there is anyone who when they were done working on their own cars would mind helping me fix mine so I could race. The next thing I know I have 5 people under my hood getting me all set up, and two people used their own parts (although minimal it was big to me).
All I can say is that drag racers rule and that I can not say thanks enough as being paralyzed is hard enough as I have the mental ability to know what to do but not the body, and having people like this in the world really make my life so much better and being paralyzed just that much easier!
So it's been quite a long time since I have been actually racing at the track as I have been putting a lot of things in my life together financially and although I could afford it I quit racing to help my future out. So 99% of the time my attendance at the track has just been watching and helping out with friends cars.
Saturday I decide it's time to start racing and having fun again before I start building the car and get some baseline runs. I get the car all washed up and ready to go and head to PIR and as I am going through tech they tell me that my battery is not properly strapped down and that I can't race until it is.
So I look around and see 3 Fox bodies together and head on over and put the wheelchair together and hop out of the car and introduce myself and ask if there is anyone who when they were done working on their own cars would mind helping me fix mine so I could race. The next thing I know I have 5 people under my hood getting me all set up, and two people used their own parts (although minimal it was big to me).
All I can say is that drag racers rule and that I can not say thanks enough as being paralyzed is hard enough as I have the mental ability to know what to do but not the body, and having people like this in the world really make my life so much better and being paralyzed just that much easier!