What was your best moment in racing

[Jim Hanig]

Originally Posted by Toby Lang

My best moment was when my mom would get on her three wheeler and drive down to the end of the track to tell me good job after winning a race. Then going to dinner with her later at the Outback.

Miss you mom.


-Toby

Would be hard to top that.

[Mickey Whaley]

Originally Posted by Jim Hanig

Would be hard to top that.

britt cummings broke on his bye to the finals this year at atlanta and i had a bye in the final at a national and dedicated it to my mom then britt came and congradulated me true class from that family and would give the shirt off their back for anyone !

[MFR440]

Not 100% racing, but there's something curious about tent camping at the Mopar Nationals in August, and our daughter born the next June?!?!??

1997, I won the semi-final in the Max Wedge Shootout at the Mopar Nats at Indy. Big Daddy was doing ESPN TV coverage, and I was shocked when he waved me over for an interview on the return road! My race aired, but my interview didn't make the cut, probably because Bo Duke showed up and hogged some of the air time...lol!

2003, I watched my cousin win 3 rounds in S/G at his first US Nationals and get into the $$. The next morning I drove to St. Louis and watched my brother win $4K in N/SS at Monster Mopar.

2006, my dad drove a friend's car on PINKS. Absolutely the most exciting thing we have done in racing - and, yes, we really did lose the car!

So many other great times with family and friends - too many to count!

[jmcarter]

A IHRA Divisional win several years ago, a fair amount of success bracket racing but nothing compares to my wife winning our local track championship in just her second year racing. Seeing a family member do something special often beats out anything else!

[cbohannon]

1. Without a doubt winning INDY in 03 with dad watching on the starting line, and joey, tyler, and my mom??? watching from the stands is tops.

2. The year Dad died 08 we didnt race much until at least 2-3 months after. I won the doorslammers and Joey runnerup'd, Tyler also runnerup'd in junior dragster at that race...Dad was with us all the way and I will never forget that weekend.

3. I tried at least 10 times to beat my good friend Ricky (Decker) before I finally got him a couple years ago...Dad got in our GT/DA camaro for the first time he had raced in at least 3-4 years for a combo race at the valley. It was in the late 90's I think and he beat Ricky in the final, I didnt think he would go a round. It probably isnt even thought about by anyone else other than me or my brother...but it was one of my proudest moments ever!!!

4. I was on the starting line with dad when Joey won his IHRA national event in Bristol in 96, I was wound tighter than if I was drivin'

5. And of course, anytime I get to see Tyler win a round little less a race, it means alot....his best days are still to come!

6. Winning D3 championship in 09', It was a goal for a long time before it happened....just wish I could have done it before Dad was gone.

I would probably be a rich man by now if it wasnt for racin.....I would not trade all the money I could spend in a lifetime for one of the things listed in this post. PRICELESS.

[rod]

i have two, which i will share. both of these are my 1956 Chevy Nomad with my 265 4V engine [O/S]. i took runner-up at the AHRA Grand American in KC,MO in the fall of 1974. i lost by a big fender to a 1965 Impala.
the second was with the car, still in class legal shape. this was the Bakersfield March meet in 1994. some sort of CA. nostalgia assn. ANDRA i think. anyway i was in street machine II, the class had 104 cars. my Nomad ran like it was computer controlled. to win at Bakersfield was something which happened to racers who got their name in national dragster, not me. yet there i was in the winner circle.
for a kid from a small Kansas town and now an old man from a small Arizona town, i can say 'it was very special'.
i feel sorry that today's racers will never see those kinds of races again.
rod in AZ

[Carl Weisinger]

Our first SS/BA class win at Indy in 1990 was great. But, becoming acquainted with the Vignona family was just as good.

[GarysZ24]

Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone

I suppose I'd have to say it was the first time someone handed me money for doing what I loved to do.
I can't remember when that was specifically, but I DO remember winning Super Stock one night at the Funny Car show @ Lebanon Valley.
I was sitting there in the clubhouse afterwards, having a beer and a sandwich with Don "The Snake" who had just won also.
They pulled back the curtain for the payouts and handed me a stack of 100, one dollar bills! I felt like I robbed a bank that night.

Hey Mark, you forgot to add your (to date), being the only national event winner with a fwd stocker, due to your E-town win back in '86...that is both unequalled and unprecedented , plus a history maker!