Hello all you LSR enthusiasts,
My name is Steve Tobler and for the sake of continuity, I kept my
White Monster tag from the
Hot Rod and
CarJunkie forums.
I have always been interested in LSR, but Keith Turk lit the fires under me during Bike Week in Daytona this year, while we toured the pits. He invited me to Maxton for the April meet to be his "gopher" (I prefer Assistant Race Director), so I have only just started participating in LSR this year.
The first meet I attended was the ECTA April meet, where I got to help KT with tech inspection, helped Joe in the tower with some electronics problems and was eventually introduced to their Chief Starter, Al (which is an experience in itself) where I helped him with final inspection and driver check-out prior to staging at the starting line for the rest of the meet. Very interesting to see the cars up close, meet the drivers and crews and see just what "purpose-built" really means. What a great bunch of guy's and gal's.
The May meet, I got the opportunity to perform the Starter role and enjoyed that tremendously. Recently during the June meet, my buddy Luke loaned me his '98 Camaro to use for my first licensing run which earned me my D Class license at 134.575 mph. Yahoo, now I'm hooked !!!
See you all on the Starting Line in September !!!