sonona cart racers who went to become professional racers

Gidley suggested we meet at the kart track at Sonoma Raceway, north of San Francisco. He's spent the last few years on medical hiatus, coaching drivers and skippering a charter sailboat in the Bay Area. He drove turbo Champ cars for Chip Ganassi, then raced prototypes until a bad accident at Daytona in 2014. Age and lack of focus meant I missed the ladder that's lifted everyone from Jeff Gordon to Lewis Hamilton. I found road racing in college, through cheap sedans. Most pro drivers start racing as children, in karts. And because I had never driven a race kart, he agreed to help me try. Gidley offered to show us how one worked.

Karts don't use differentials or traditional dampers, so their function seemed like hoo-doo. Gidley has written several books on the sport I read one and got curious. Last month, I began researching our latest Lost Art, on the magic of karts. Two: Vaporize money, eat beans for weeks.) (One: Discover ridiculous thing and get hurt doing it. Then I bruised a rib and decided to start buying stuff, which is basically the story of my life. WHEN WE NEEDED A KART SHOP, I called Memo Gidley.

Sonona cart racers who went to become professional racers