One Mans Dreams  

T Bone…thanks for the kind words.  Its not just me!  There are twenty seven other historians that are just as dedicated to our task of documenting and preserving our sports history. 

  I’ve said this all before, but I am really blessed to be working with some of the best historians in the country.  Bill Braga Jr. and I started the genesis of this organization over twenty years ago just for sh*ts and giggles because we had drivers that we followed and neither one of us ever threw out any racing newspapers and once we got together and began collaborating on research projects…we realized that we were really doing something good for the sport.  Within a few years, we brought in Steve Barrick, the late Bill Hanna and Bill Skinner and us five founding members officially got ARRA – Auto Racing Reseach Associates - underway.

  From that point, it got nuts.  We naturally just kept getting bigger and bigger and we had other historians suggested to us that we were told we needed to consider.  We are now twenty eight historians strong with our guys and our sources stretched across the country.  I made the decision a number of months ago, after the pleading of ARRA historian Thomas Schmeh, former curator of the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in Knoxville, Iowa, to expand and go national.  I have been fortunate to secure historians that are experts in a variety of factions of the sport.  We recently brought on Bob Marcos who has been with the National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame and obviously, excels in late model knowledge and research.  Long time sprint car expert Kevin Eckert is on board and provides expert views and stats on the national sprint car world.  The NorthEast dirt and asphalt modified world is well represented amongst our members.  We have members who have closely followed certain drivers…have attended certain tracks for most of their lives and are experts in their regions racing action.  I am always searching for other historians in other venues of our sport.  I am currently awaiting word back from a potential historian that has to do with the project that I am underway with right now that will definitely add to the variety of racing we cover and bring our work one step closer to national level.