Parents of Child Racers Need Reality Check !
 

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Do you have any kids yourself?Is your beef with a 5 year old racing or the raffle?

To the maturity level of a 5 year old.As I have one about to be 5 myself.

I myself come from a family of racing. I been going to the races since I was 4 or 5 years old.
I am now 27 years old and still go to races. I have a soon to be 5 year old BOY. He has sat and watched racing on tv with us since the day he was born and has gone to races himself. Most all of his clothes are of some sort of racer.

His older brother builds go kart motors for a living and races go karts himself now and then.

Now he has been around some sort of racing of some kind since he was born. How would he not understand what racing is? He goes around telling me and his dad that he wants to race.He will probably eventually be racing something.
What I am getting at is when a kid has been around things for so long they either enjoy it or not, and sometimes they want to do the same thing as they are around all the time.
If a kid at 5 years old said he wanted to play a certain sport, should you let him or not as he is saying he wants to play that sport. It is the kids decision to play or not to play.
Just a thought...............

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You know Paul, I kind of agree with you. My thought was that if you have to hold a fund raiser to buy a 5 yr old a helmet to race a go-kart, perhaps you should wait until you are on more sound financial footing before starting a racing program? However, if it works out for them....go for it, I guess. I just found it to be a little strange. JMHO :confused:

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I don't know Paul? According to his website, which I am sure he designed himself, he picks up cans off of County Roads!! So one would have to assume that if he is mature enough to have an Open House & design a racing website, he is old enough to be left wandering around County Roads looking for cans??!!






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Sounds to me like a kid that wants to race! Seems to me like I remember some young kids showing up at Columbus Kart track, with a desire to race, and also still play with the other kids their age. Names were Billy, Tony, Brad, David, might even remember their last names, Puterbaugh, Stewart, Fox, Bridges, gosh, that was a long time ago, anyone remember them? I think we've all been guilty of selling one thing, to finance another. Bob

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Sounds like a yard sale to me.

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Is this the same little guy they wrote an article about in the paper last summer? If it is, he sounds like a kid who genuinely wants to race and his Dad sounds like a parent who would do whatever it takes to help him achieve this dream. I admire the ambition they have.

I've got 3 big garbage bags of cans in my garage. I'll bring them to you if you want them. My email is below.

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My email is racing@jenmarco.com.

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i dont have a Hans, partially from the financial cost, and because of comfort reasons, so does that mean i shouldnt race. your post is competely pointless, whats wrong with someone doing what they can to get a little bit of money for racing. Robertastamm, hope your son is successful in karts, karting days were some of the funnest i ever had.

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It's none of my business. Raise money how ever you see fit. Good luck to you all.

There are some experienced guys on here, myself included, who have seen families mortgage their homes so Junior can race. Sometimes Junior is cool, sometimes he's a knucklehead who tears up their own stuff, and someone elses' stuff, then they're gone.

Please, whatever you do...

TURN THE CAPS LOCK OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Paul, I usually agree with most of your post, but this time I think you are out of line. I see no difference between Brayden Stamm And Daron Clayton (except age and type of car they drive) I have seen no one complain about Daron having a fund raiser for his team, maybe he needed a new helmet too.

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WOW! He already has a Press Agent too??! Amazing.

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Please quit ! Im very sorry making people mad at me. But crankin and paul gray have a problem with me call 317-362-5400.

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Im very sorry.

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My husband has been sharing with me the things that some of you have been sharing on this posting. I noticed that he was still logged on so I thought that I would share my 2 sense (as any woman would :)) I believe that my husband is teaching good values, to work towards your goals and dreams. Any one that knows my son, will quickly realize what a fan he is. What is wrong with Brayden collecting can? Can you think of any thing else that a 5 year can do to assist in making money for his hobby in addition to his weekly allowances for his chores at home? As for raising money for a helmet, he has a helmet. What is wrong with upgrading on a helmet? The real reason that Brayden would like another helmet is his current one is green that I purchased for him last year and he would like a red one to match his suit and car. Thinks are not handed to him on a silverspoon, I explained to him that he has one that meets his needs and that if he wanted a new one he needs to work extra hard for one. The "garage sale" was an idea that Brayden and his dad thought of. Maybe he should not of said a "fundraiser" How many times do we support sports teams, bands, cheerleaders, etc on their fundraisers for new equipment or uniforms. As my husband said he is sorry for offending anyone, but as I shared with him that is why we live in America and have freedom of speech. If we all had the same ideas, beliefs what a boring world we would live in.

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You folks were by no means offensive......What is ludicrous is throwing a young man and his family "under the bus" for trying to put a few dollars together for their hobby.....I applaud them for hustling up funds

When I started racing karts, my dad loaded up a kart (that was built the same year i was born in" with a converted lawnmower engine in a 1984 paint van and we went racing. No spares, no trailer, no driver development deals. Just father and son racing. I miss those times looking back on them.

I hope your son enjoys it as much as I did and I hope he gets that helmet.

Danny Holtsclaw

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[QUOTE=robertastamm;93154]Please quit ! Im very sorry making people mad at m e. But crankin and paul gray have a problem with me call 317-362-5400.[/QUOT

I just switched to bell helmets this year,I would be glad to give you the info on who to call at Bell. maybe they could give you a bit of a discount. e mail me at hudcone@gmail.com best of luck

hud cone
cone/corry racing

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Dwayne, your analogy to the Clayton Fundraiser is spot on. I found that to be a bit strange too. I wasn't going to respond to either thread until I saw this one. I don't begrudge any of these people from legally raising money any way they can. My "personal problem" is that there are so many worthy charities out there and families/individuals with serious health or financial problems in need of help, that I would struggle with the idea of having a fundraiser to keep our sprint car going rather than for a charitable cause. But, that is just me. In all honesty, I hope both of these functions were a success. If not, they'll just have to go back to the drawing board on how to generate some revenue for their racing programs. At least they took a shot at it.

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First, good luck in your racing efforts. Also, congrats on trying to teach your son the cost of racing. Too many silverspoons out there.

However, I am also tired of people doing fundraisers at the race track. I used to have a stock car that I had to sell when my wife and I had twins. I would love to be racing, but I can not afford the car. Thus, it frustrates me for other people to assume that I would want to support them. I want to support my own race team.

Also, some of the fundraisers have gotten out of hand. I remember the track passing of the helmet for a driver whose house had flooded. While it was bad luck, the driver did buy a house in a flood zone. It made me even more mad when I realized that he was still racing. If it was that bad, sell the car to take care of the house.

However, the worst one was the modified driving passing the helmet to pay for medical bills of his wife. Yet, he was still racing the $25,000 car with the $20,000 hauler. Once again, sell the house to pay the bills.

I think the frustration shown in the earlier post deals with the bigger issue. I know that I felt the same way.

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"The real reason that Brayden would like another helmet is his current one is green that I purchased for him last year and he would like a red one to match his suit and car. "

Ace hardware has Krylon for $3.99.