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I started in R/C shortly before entering high school, and it didn't take long for it to become my favorite pastime. That eventually developed into a regular hobby, and from there I began racing electric trucks competitively at a local indoor track in Brookfield, Wisconsin called S&N's Trackside Hobbies. Soon I became a regular, racing every week and getting faster and faster, and learning more and more.
Today I still spend every week during the winter racing trucks at S&N's, but now in the summer I've developed a small taste for nitro racing. The truck is basically the same but with a fuel-burning diesel engine instead of an electric motor. I don't stick with one track either, I've entered my nitro vehicles in championship tours like Midwest Nitrocross that visit a different facility almost every round. I've got a few other little projects on the side as well, like the ultra-simple and inexpensive BoLink Legends cars that race oval in a MWNX-organized support series. After having some good times with those I came across a deal on a chassis that I could build into an R/C dirt late model, so now I'm giving that a whirl. But at the end of the day I'll always focus on my two-wheel-drive offroad racing trucks. I love to drive them, to work on them, and to win with them.
Outside of R/C I'm an avid dirt biker; nothing competitive, just recreational trail riding. I also follow a number of full-scale (or as we R/Cer's say, 1:1) on and off-road racing events, such as sports cars (ALMS), desertracing (SCORE), cross-country motocross (GNCC), rock crawling (WERock), and dirt oval (WoO). During the day I'm a CAD technician, and I'm currently going to college part-time for mechanical design engineering. It works out great between racing, school, and work because I can take what I learn in one and find ways to apply it to any of the other two.