We’ve all heard Barry Meguair speak of being car crazy, but I guess you could say, I’m ‘nitro nuts’…got the ‘fever’. I guess you have to be car crazy to become a nitro nut.

  I did not play with dolls when I was little, I had a RED PEDAL CAR I wore out when I was 2 or 3 years old. I remember the big red tricycle next, that was so cool. We moved when I was 6 and remember hearing cars racing at a drag way off in the distance.  When I was 8 or 9 I learned the ones we could hear were TOP FUEL NITRO METHANE DRAGSTERS! Whenever we heard they were coming to town, my brothers and I would climb on the roof of the house to listen for that horsepower from Sacramento Raceway.

  Later both of my brothers became go-cart champions, and one went on to race circle track (Russ). We were watching him at Roseville Raceway, supporting his dream to race (since he was 2 years old. Runs in the family!). Ralph Shaheen was announcing the race and asked a drag racing trivia question to win a ticket to the inaugural NHRA race at Sonoma California. Well to make a long story short, that was in 1988, and we’ve made every race we could ever since.

  My grandmother had us collect autographs when we were kids. So I started doing that at the drag races, and met some of the nicest people at the NHRA events. I got to meet drivers, crew members, officials, technical people, support people, crew chiefs, sponsors, owners, the list goes on. I’ve had the opportunity to watch kids grow up, from cleaning car parts, to becoming champions. I’ve watched mechanics work together like poetry in motion. I started taking pictures to capture and share these special moments and it has grown into this…it is an awesome thing to see and experience.