We are just backyard ET chasers got lucky and had our 15 mins of fame but it always has been about quality time with Dad 30 years of fun
We both love just being at the track and hanging out with friends, watching what we both consider real racing!

2015 can't get here fast enough!

I'm the same with the ET or go home.
Though when a grudge does pop up, it's a whole different game for all of us I gather.

Old friends and I have new friends but this heads up racing man I love it and if you are having a bad day at the track and a kid comes up and is looking at my car it takes me back when I was a kid .One night about to years ago a man and a woman with three kid and one boy came up to me and started talking he was handed cap and I let him sit in my car and he came back four or five times but the last time he came his mom & dad had a shirt made of my car and they said you don't know how much you have helped him and he put his arms around me and smiled I went in trailer set down.So I guess going fast and people I just love racing with my kids to.

That is so cool! I had a little girl ask me for my autograph at a race this year, LOL...I let her sit in my car and she was so thrilled.

Well, it's this guy's fault...

My late father started drag racing in 1956 at age 14 and did it until he could no longer do it 44 years later. I grew up at the track and was destined to get in a car and have at it. Now that I announce I rarely get to race myself (been 2 1/2 years since my last pass) but the love my dad had for the sport is in me and comes in handy when I'm calling a race. I get as excited for two kids racing 18 second beaters as I do calling Pro Mods. Thanks dad!

for me it's how I do against the other guy, if I lose it's cause I screwed up , poor lite, didn't run the number, but I was out there trying, it's a cool thrill.

I now really do know why we race.
We're time travelers.
Did you know that when you launch from the line in the current time zone and finish 9 seconds or so later that you are now 9 seconds ahead of the world you left at the line.
You're 9 seconds ahead in time, so in your fall back daylight savings time, you have to set your clock back 1 hour and 9 seconds. You're really moving during Spring forward day light savings though. LOL.

This...#1 qualifier at a TEX275 jet limit race and at the time a new record for the class...And having to listen to MOPAR racers/gurus saying you can't compete with a MOPAR in headsup classes,Lol.

And this...Making new young fans...I think this Brett Millers son when we were at Norwalk !!

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I loved drag racing every chance I could for many years...But once I strapped my fat azz into a road course car and did several laps I was hooked...It was just so much more of a driving experience for me...So I bought a 1985 Porsche 944 and did the basics to make it track worthy...THIS sport will get under your skin quickly to find a better faster car..Just like drag racing im sure! But in 2013 I was invited to drive ALL the new Porsche cars at the Ford Test Track...Now the bug has bitten me bad for a killer road car..

Why do I Drag Race
It was a fire that started long ago , I was told when I was kid that could not build a car or ever race one that I built so it gave a me direction and purpose in life. I proved them wrong , I do it for the love of cars .
Plus who dose not love this! The way it was ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ7rAqjXr_8

This what really got me hooked when I was kid!

The Trill,The Speed and the Winning!In other words I like not only having the Fastest Car but being able to Win with it.It matters not how much $$$ you put in a car(but it does help to have $$$)or how much you know if you can not get in it and Win with it,its a waste of $$$.In other words beating the man in the next lane is Price Less and proves who is the Best Man on that given day!
"If You Want To Be The Man You've Got To Beat The Man"

PS I forgot the most important thing of all,I Like To Drive Race Cars!*!I some times drive other peoples cars at Big Races where there is enough cars that I have the time along with our cars.When it gets down to where there is not enough time for me to keep driving,I want only a percentage of the $$$ at the point I stop driving.If I win the race with your car (I have done that before)you take your car to the Winners circle and claim the $$$,just don't forget to give me my share of the Winnings! I like driving Race Cars!

Racing is what I enjoy, It's the way I use to relax after a stressful week at work. It's hanging with your buddy's, having a few beers and racing trophy eliminator for a 50 cent trophy for bragging rights...LOL
But those days are gone replaced by boring azz delay box bracket racing...Don't get me started...
LMAO

The Glory! http://www.davemilcarek.com/110214/pages/11-2-14%20R1%20151.htm
The Big bucks!
but no groupies, probly cause I'm so ugly

I won't tell you how I won

I have been into anything mechanical since I was a wee lad.
Was it the neighbor tuning his Triumph hill climber in the alley behind our house in 1963 ?
The noise was like a magnet , and then to see the shiny paint and chrome and that vicious roar really set a hook in me.
Seeing friends older brothers working and beating on their cars always seemed so cool .......... one was serious about his craft to the point of open headers , slicks screwed to the rims and a gutted interior with a roll bar in his '65 GTO " street car ".
He raced on the streets for cash , which seemed like a very exciting way to pass the time.
One Saturday when he was working on the car , he put his little brother and me in the back and had us hold on to the roll bar......then tried to launch us into the trunk.

I was maybe 11 years old , but events like that left such a deep impression on me that there was no doubt I would engage in much of the same shenanigans when I got older.
The people I have met have been with very few exceptions , some of the nicest folks you could ever know.
But I have met nice people all over the place.
The machines really do it for me.
There is tremendous satisfaction in building a fast , safe car.
But I get just as big a kick out of seeing other cars too.
Not much cooler than an American two door coupe with a snotty V-8 to scare the neighbors.