BOB KINSER, LARRY GATES, calvin gilstrap, RANDY KINSER, STEVE KINSER, BOBBY BLACK, BUTCH WILKERSON, RICKY HOOD, DOUG WOLFGANG,MIKE WALTZ, ALLEN BARR, SHELDON KINSER, JUST TO NAME A FEW

There is one mans name i can't believe I have not seen on this thread. Richard Briscoe???? Seen alot of his drivers names but not his.He has booked alot of wins!

No fair you're biased!

Steve/Sheldon Kinser,Jack Hewitt,Ricky Hood,Pancho,Vogler,my father but basically everyone who straps in one of these beasts and put it on the line for or entertainment.

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Sorry.Cant believe I forgot to through Sleepy Tripp in there.

The men and women who defend are country - SUPPORT YOUR TROOPS

The Kinser's, A.J Foyt, Jack Hewitt, Jon Stanbrough, Tony Stewert

:2:Local guy who ran USAC Don Nordhorn and Chuck Amiti

In the back of my mind I consider drivers like Butch Wilkerson, Dick Gaines and Calivin Gillstrap and Danny Milburn to be my Racing Idols. A host of others old and new are tops on my list.

HEROS? Any man or woman putting on the uniform to keep us safe. Weather you and I ever agree on anything, Your a hero of mine!
Chuck

I think what got us started were the Books, Stand on the Gas, or Dusty Heroes.
Jan Opperman, Bettenhausen, letting my son sit in his Indy Car at PIR, AJ Foyt same day, around 1982 Jack Hewitt at Calistoga, Mel Kenyon and I watching Sleepy Trip and Rich Vogler at Handford Ca. tons of laps side by side! The Great GP we would stop by and say hi!, Shu, Tempe T. in the Baily Brothers 01 Dave Bradway jr., Rim Rider, Buckweat.
There was one only entertainer! The Great GP!
Remember what we watch is entertainment! This is what Louie Vermeil said in his days. Go put on the show!
So many racers

Then the Hero Maker, and the Brucer Hey it's empty Thanks!
Joe

My only true heros are my father and grandmother. My dad I can honestly say was one of the best, most honest, hardest working individuals I've ever known. Even after he lost half a leg to diabetes he stilled got out and did some masonary work.Even though the disease led to his death a couple years later. Plus without I wouldn't know the joys of watching a race. My grandmother is so strong willed she has beat cancer more than once and has outlived 3 of 5 kids and her husband of 53 years. If she can't be a hero I don't know who can because she never has let anything get her down. On the racing side I would have to say my heros growing up were DD, Tony Elliot, Steve Kinser, Gary Fisher, and Kevin Thomas. I'm sure there is more but that's what I remember. The drivers I admire today are DD, Stanbrough, and any other driver that you can tell that race because it is what they love to do.
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As a child race fan many years ago....

Doug Wolfgang, Shane Carson (won the 1st sprint car race i ever saw), A.J. Foyt and Jack Hewitt


As an adult driver/fan....

Tony Stewart, Jesse Hockett, and still A.J. Foyt..

Gotta pick Smoke as my overall #1, even though he's my age. I guess he should be one of my heroes as a kid as well because the year I started racing karts was the year he won the IKF Speedway Grandnationals with the underfunded operation.

I still have the "Karter News" magazine that had the stories/results from that race...wonder how much that bad boy would be worth on Ebay??