Wcaswell

Nope. was in a 12 year relationship that ended this past fall. A little over a year ago we had a ceremony in Mexico and we separated a year later(this past fall). Its too bad really. She's an amazing woman but she never once came to a race or to my shop/office or to any of my public speaking deals or really anything I did in the 4 years since I quit my job and started living my dream. That was far worse than separating.

Im still racing to have fun with my friends. That will always drive certain people crazy because the only important part of racing to them is the win. I don't race for those for people or for their reasons and its almost impossible to explain to them why. The journey to me is so much more valuable than the result. I clarified this for myself during these past 4 years as I tried different approaches to racing.

The most rewarding for me was 2nd place with Wyatt Knox at WRC Mexico 2012. We had to find a new motor and swap it on the way to race. That year's race was incredible. Amazing really as we struggled to keep that motor running and finish. And I do love to party. sorry for that. I think it sucks more that the current group of pro racers are bunch of politically correct, corporate pu$$ies. But thats me.

As for the success of my initial story? No one I talk to focuses on the result. They focus on the getting off the sofa and going after your dreams. They focus on learning how to build a car and race because I learned from books so why can't they. If they talk about the result, its usually in relation to finishing the three day rally with no service crew/mechanics. And for me, the success is the number of new racers and rally cars hitting the roads each year simply because they read my story. That's cool and why I race.

As a side note, proper prep takes a ton of cash! like 4-10 times more than I spend. I've been doing this for 4 years and Im coming up on 5 this summer. You know how many properly prepped cars show up and break a stage later after spending 4-10 times the cash? A lot. One even burned to the ground as a total write off last saturday. My approach has lasted nearly 5 years with no real job. It could be better but usually its way worse for racers.

And as for the driving to the event. I do it because its fun. Its how I started racing back in 2002 before I had a good job and an enclosed trailer. And generally I get two types of complaints. I don't prep enough or they could do what I do if they had enough cash. Well the prep is easy. It just takes cash. And when the car is nice like at Targa Newfoundland I finished 2nd behind ACP or with Crawford Performance in their 500hpBRZ at Redline Time Attack.

But the money? You can race really cheap if you want it bad enough. So last year I went to ESPR on Dunlop street tires and raced on the same tires. It cost me two tanks of gas to get there instead of 6 like it does pulling my enclosed trailer. Did it show kids they can drive their rally cars to races and compete. You don't need a fancy tow rig or trailer. Just the will to race.

As for the guys that want to help me? I have tons of friends that want to help, but prep costs cash.

E30 is the answer to everything. Or BECAUSE RACECAR!

Be the first in and the last to leave. Never let them know when you go home. Ever.

Don't talk about your personal life. ever. no one cares.

knock out your spreadsheets. check every number. If its wrong its worse than if you didn't do the spreadsheet at all.

If someone is bad at what they do, don't ever point it out, stay away from them and ask a good deal team to take you on.

read everything you can.

know what your competition is doing. read about it. be knowledgeable. someday you'll get a chance no one else can because you know what is going on.

invest half your bonus. Spend the other half buying cars and F'ing beautiful women. travel is good too.

Be nice to others and call your mom often or you might end up someone you don't want to be. But I have tons of awesome friends who are still bankers and living amazing healthy lives. so who knows. I personally loved it and miss it. If my job had stayed the way it was, I would have never left.

Things are great on the movie front. Its amazing how slow hollywood moves! But the movie is funded which is really cool! Jeremy Renner is still committed to playing me and the script has been done and rewritten numerous times. I think they are looking for a director and that will determine filming dates?

I don't hassle them too much about it. Its their project now and they are great at what they do. But I do agree that a nice press release or update would be cool. And I do ask so its not just my word all the time but Hollywood is strange about stuff like that.