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I am proud to announce that Jim Payne, Chad Delagrange and I (Tom Paterson) have formed a partnership to field a sprint car team for the upcoming season.
Chad, Jim and I have been the best of friends for many years all of us owning and driving various cars over the years. Each of us has even driven for the others over the years. But with escalating costs all of us have scaled back our efforts.
So after some discussion, the natural thing to do was pool our resources and form a single race team. We have a Maxim non-winged car we plan on racing in select races in the Northern Indiana, Michigan area as well as possibly a few Waynesfield shows.
We also have a slightly modified Dynamite pavement car we will be fielding with the HOSS series as well as a few other races.
After a spirited double elimination, round robin, rock- paper- scissors game, it was decided that the cars would carry the traditional Delagrange family white and red paint scheme with the number 100.
After another rock paper scissors tournament, it was decided that our team would be called PDP (Payne, Delagrange, Paterson) Racing.
Our first race will hopefully be at the new dirt track at Plymouth speedway. Jim lost the coin toss, so he will be driving.
We will not have a website, as that cost money and that money can be used to maybe have a spare part or two. We will eventually have a Facebook page. I promise no updates that start with, “it was a tough night for PDP racing……..” If we have a bad night, we promise to keep it to ourselves.
Since all of us are too old to be concerned about getting to “the next level,” our main goals are to have fun and not be broke at the end of the year.
Naturally, we are looking for help, both physically and financially for the upcoming year. Anyone interested can contact me through a PM on this website.
Thank you all for your time.
Tom Paterson
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