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Originally Posted by Rob Petrie E395
Gateway in St Louis has a very good high school class they run on Wednesdays in conjunction with some test and tune nights. I mentioned it to some people at the schools here years ago. To give kids a place to run their cars and see if they might like racing. It was a solid no way. They want nothing to do with it because of liability. If the kids want to run they can with their parents. But the schools won’t be involved in any way. They can’t form a club, have meetings at school or anything. They won’t even allow flyers to be posted with the dates of the races. So kids can do it on their own with their parents.
The young man that did most of the work on my car wanted to drive it to prom. Basically they haul the race cars and hot rods into town on a trailer about a mile from the school. And the cops lead them to the school. Then they go into prom and the parents take the cars back home. But then he hurt himself playing sports and couldn’t drive. So it didn’t happen. It was supposed to kind of his reward for all the work. He races a little now with his dad.
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The High School classes used to be a big thing in the Northeast from what I was told. When I turned 17, in 2020, the only track left in Div 1 that seemed to do it was Atco. I went to the few races they had, and it was very good fun. I was running my 83 5.0 5spd mustang, and on the first race day, what comes through the gate? Another kid my age with an 86 5.0 5spd mustang. After the end of that season, there hasn't been any High School races at atco since. But, by the end of that year, I pretty much started my head first dive into Stock Eliminator racing anyway.