Today as I was talking to my new friend from of all places MySpace, I begin to think about when I started out as a young man working on race cars and the challenges that I faced as a young man in this field. Then I got thinking about why we as a people in this country still seem to have issues with race and what I see as the last great strong hold for people which are of a different race. Let’s get to the bottom line; this is a racing thing not a race thing. Oh, one more thing as I was talking to my new friend Matthew Miller I noticed a racer, someone that truly loves the sport of auto racing and wants to be a part of the sport. Furthermore, this young man that is referred to as (youngblood) at the Johnny Davis Motorsports shop has taken the first steps needed to see his dream of becoming a racecar driver to come to pass.

In addition, as this young man and myself talked I found out the he begun at 13 in the Davis shop taking out the trash and started to work into doing other odds and ends around the shop as well as getting to the point he was doing maintenance on the car. Plus as we talked he told me of learning how to change gears, prepare the exhaust system for the pavement car he works on each day after school, and now to the point in which he has been taught how to correctly prepare the car by scaling it each week to get it ready for the next weekend’s race.

Oh, and while we on this subject Mathew is very grateful to Kertus Davis, Danny Efland, and Al Varner for giving him a start at 13 years of age. Mathew pointed and made it clear that without the support and willingness of these people he would not be where he is at today.

Listen, this young man has the drive down within to make a great race car driver, so therefore; should get the breaks he needs to show what he is able to do. Furthermore, it makes me sick to think that we as a racing family as a whole still are having this issue with giving someone that does not have the same skin color, or even the money to get started in any form of racing. Because I have been in auto racing even before I was born, and been through many things, and seen almost everything one could or would want to see in the world of dirt track racing.

Therefore, let’s do away with the old way of thinking and look at this young man or any other young person in a different light, and start helping those of the future out, before dirt track racing is a thing of the past. Therefore, from my experience Mathew has all of what it takes become a great race car driver, and just needs to the support with the backing he needs to take his dreams, and all that he has learned to the next level.