TERRY ENGLISH..#96.. SUMMER NATIONALS..6/29/04.CCS
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FIRST TIME I SAW TERRY RACE WAS AT ELDORA SPEEDWAY IN ROSSBURG, OHIO.... HE HAD AN ALL RED CAR AND YOU COULD NOT HELP BUT NOTICE HIM... HE PUT ON A GREAT SHOW THAT DAY... WAS A REAL THRILL GETTING TO MEET HIM...
TERRY IS FROM BENTON, KENTUCKY.. HE STARTED RACING AT THE AGE OF 23 IN 1986..
I ASKED HIM WHAT HAD INSPIRED HIM TO START RACING AND HE TOLD ME THAT HE HAD ALWAYS BEEN AROUND IT..SAID HIS DAD RACED AND HIS COUSIN RACED...SAID HE HELPED HIS COUSIN OUT....
WHEN ASKED IF THERE HAD BEEN ANYONE THAT INFLUENCED HIM ALONG THE WAY HE SAID THERE WAS JUST TOO MANY TO NAME....
I ASKED WHO HIS TOUGHEST COMPETITOR WAS AND HE TOLD ME THAT IT VARIES FROM TRACK TO TRACK...
ASKED HIS LONG TERM GOAL AND HE SAID IT WAS TO GET TO RACE A FEW MORE YEARS...
WHEN ASKED WHAT HIS MOST MEMORABLE EVENT WAS SO FAR HE SAID IT WOULD HAVE TO BE THE "TERRY EGNER EVENT: AT KENTUCKY LAKE SPEEDWAY IN 1999..
WHEN ASKED IF THERE WAS ANYTHING THAT HE WOULD CHANGE HE TOLD ME HE WOULD HAVE STARTED AT AN EARLIER AGE AND WOULD HAVE LIKED BETTER EQUIPMENT..
HIS CREW CHIEF IS JUSTIN ENGLISH AND HIS CREW IS DAVID DOWTY, T.J. JOHNSON, AND MIKE WILLIAMSON.
HE TOLD ME HE WOULD LIKE TO THANK HIS WIFE FOR PUTTING UP WITH HIM AND ALL HIS PROJECTS...
THANKYOU TERRY FOR GIVING ME SOME OF YOUR TIME..WAS REALLY GREAT GETTING TO MEET YOU..HOPE TO SEE YOU AT ELDORA THIS YEAR..
CJ