Mike’s dream
When I was a little kid I had a dream to be a race car driver, I grew up poor, my parents divorced but I
was determined, everyone I asked for help and guidance laughed at me and said forget it because Racing takes so much money
and I would never have the money to buy a race car. They said you will never make it. I spent my years working hard and gaining
knowledge and learning what I needed to build my own race car, I helped out other racers on their cars, volunteered to be
on pit crews and whatever else I could do to learn. I didn’t have the money to buy quality materials to build my cars
with but that didn’t stop me, I was determined. I would pick up old washers, dryers, refrigerators and other
appliances out of the trash and cut them apart to have the sheet metal to make my race car bodies, I would also pick
up trashed bicycles to make suspension parts from the tubing of bicycle frames. I built my 1
st race car and
drove in my 1
st race when I was 17 .... When I was 20 years old I was 2nd in the Flemington NJ Speedway late model
stock car point standings and 2nd in the N.J. State late model stock car point standings. I'll never forget, the people that
laughed at me came running up to me waving a racing magazine with a story of me being in position to walk away with the track
and state championship. I did get into the lower levels of NASCAR but just couldn't get the sponsorship I needed to go further.
