First Win Photo Gallery

Finally! My first win came in a 4 lap trophy dash on July 21st, 2001 (just shy of the 2nd anniversay of my first race). It was by far my best night of racing ever as I also finished 2nd out of 31 cars starting the main event for my class later that same night.

Every first win is a story. Every story has a bunch of people in it. So, here it is, here they are, and the pictures that go along with both.

To go racing one needs a car. Thanks to my friend Billy Broughton of SOS Auto and Tire for finding a great deal and going halves on a 76 Camaro to race and a 305 from an 81 Pontiac Parisienne Wagon to make it go (after a whole bunch of his time and effort to get it purring).

Billy started out as a sponsor for me and has ended up a very good friend. He races car #6 in the same club as me. On the night in question our cars were painted in a similar fashion but had different endings in the main event after Billy was spun and ended up backwards into wall in turn 1 and 2 (results in second picture on the right)

Usually I drive the #64 car, but I ran #62 that night in thanks to another good friend, Woody Woodruff, who built the car for me (along with a bunch of other people who pitched in and helped him). A big thank you also to Russ Hancock of HF Hancock Fabrications for building the roll cage and everyone else listed on the side of the car.

Well, after you've got a car, you need a crew. They help you get out to the track, set the car up, help you get belted in, cheer as you race, and then load up to go home. At the track that night I had lots of people buzzing around the car.

The top picture is Me with John Lennox on my right and James Lennox on my left. These brothers both attend the church I pastor and they are a great help before, at, and after the track.

Below them is Mike Noyce who didn't want his picture taken. Mike worked at setting up the car that night, changing tires, and overseeing how everything was under the hood.

Below his picture is Alex who also worked on the car (when he wasn't crewing on Billy's car. Brad Watkins was also helping out in the pits, but I didnt' get a picture of him.

Once you get all the mechanical stuff worked out, it's nice if your car looks fast. Besides that, the sponsors sure like having their names on the car so they can get the advertising benefit of their support.

Thanks to Billy's son, Mark Broughton, for painting the body of the car and to Lorraine Davenport and Sadie Woodruff for the excellent job of putting the sponsors on - especially the free drawn/painted Cybersalt logo on the hood.

Now's a good time to thank all of the sponsors - Cybersalt.org, SOS Auto and Tire, Good day Racing, Islandnet.com, HF Hancock Fabrications, Westside Bible Church, and Island Muffler.

Thanks also to all the fans in the stands and on the net who have been cheering us on!

Finally, in order to give them best notice, thanks to my wife and kids for all of their support and sacrifice to let me go racing.

OK, you need a driver too to win a race and that night it was me.

What a great feeling to take the checkered flag and then get to come around the track again to pull into victory square for the trophy presentation. Thanks to Illusion Photography for this other than typically pastoral picture. (Note that I have both of my hands on the trophy!)

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