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- I have lived in Turlock, California for my entire life and have been covering motorsports since my senior year in high school in 1966. As an honor student in high school, I was pushed to add outside activities and I wrote for the high school newspaper and took pictures for the yearbook. Attending auto races predates my birth with my family as I learned it was the primary date function when my father was courting my mother. In my younger years, my father kept telling me that he could afford to take us to the races just once a month and my brother and I spent the entire month looking forward to that night. One other racing memory of my youth was one time when we were attending the State Fair in Sacramento. As we walked around, we heard the Winston West cars warming up on the mile dirt track. I begged to attend, but my father gave me the choice of attending the race and getting a new toy truck. As a young boy, of course the toy truck won out, but that was one of the last times that racing took a back seat. Since we lived in Turlock, my favorite race drivers growing up were Turlock residents like Bill Bryan, Farrell Jones and Ray Donaldson. We premarily attended Stockton 99 Speedway when it was a Friday night race track and we started buying the racing publications that were on sale there, like Racing Wheels from Vancouver, Washington and National Speed Sport News. The writer who was covering Stockton quit and I realized that I could do that. My original plan was to cover Stockton each week and go to Merced Speedway every other week, but it immediately became a two track every weekend deal. Besides Stockton and Merced, our special events consisted mainly of super modified events at San Jose, Clovis, West Capital and Kearney Bowl, but we were also big fans of the NASCAR action on the road course at Riverside and attended those events for over 20 years before that track closed in 1987.
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