Dad,

I am Brad Funk from Illinois or Illinoise as our hoosier friends like to say. I first met Allen in 06. I hauled my ailing ZX11 all the way to Lawrenceburg just to pit near Allen and see what he was doing with the R1's. I could only afford to kept that old thing running a few races a year. He was more than willing to help me switch to a R1, even though I built my own chassis and was to fat to fit in a ERC. The man loved this class. When we started a club in Illinois, Allen sent 2 cars over most weeks to help us get started.