JOE MORRIS #83.... SUMMER NATIONALS..6/29/04 CCS
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I HAVE WATCHED JOE MORRIS RACE FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS AT MT VERNON AND A FEW OTHER TRACKS... ALWAYS LIKE WATCHING HIM AND RODNEY MELVIN GO AT IT...ALWAYS PUT ON A GOOD SHOW...
JOE IS FROM GALATIA...HE TOLD ME THAT HE STARTED RACING AT THE AGE OF 31 IN ABOUT 1988
I ASKED HIM WHAT HAD INSPIRED HIM TO START RACING AND HE TOLD ME IT WAS JUST SOMETHING HE LIKED TO DO...JUST LIKED RACING ANYTHING AND ANYONE..
WHEN ASKED IF SOMEONE HAD INSPIRED HIM ALONG THE WAY AND HE SAID YES ...THAT IT WOULD HAVE TO BE KEVIN CLAYCOMB...
THE TRACKS THAT YOU CAN MAINLY FIND HIM AT ARE MT. VERNON RACEWAY AND PADUCAH, KENTUCKY..
WHEN I ASKED WHAT HE THOUGHT IT TOOK TO BE A GOOD DRIVER HE TOLD ME "TIME"....HAVE TO HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO DO IT....
HE TOLD ME THAT HIS TOUGHEST COMPETITOR IS RODNEY MELVIN... HE HAS A LOT OF RESPECT FOR THIS DRIVER..
I ASKED WHAT HIS LONG TERM GOAL WAS AND HE LAUGHED AND SAID TO WIN MORE...
HIS MOST MEMORABLE EVENT TO DATE WAS HIS FIRST WIN AT HAUBSTADT, INDIANA..
SOME OF HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS IS HAVING FOUR TRACK CHAMPIONSHIPS...
WHEN ASKED IF THERE WAS ANYTHING HE WOULD CHANGE IN HIS CAREER HE TOLD ME HE WISHED THAT HE HAD STARTED EARLIER..
HE TOLD ME THAT HE IS HIS OWN CREW CHIEF AND THAT HIS SON JOEY IS HIS CREW...
I ASKED IF HE WOULD LIKE TO THANK ANYONE AND HE SAID,
ALL THE FANS.....
IT IS NICE TO PUT FACES WITH NAMES AND I HAVE HEARD THIS NAME FOR SOME TIME.... VERY NICE MEETING YOU JOE AND I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU RACE AGAIN....
CJ