• Give A Gift  As a young boy racing slot cars and reading Road
& Track, I always thought that someday if I could only get my
name in that magazine, I would have arrived, I would have made
it to the big time. As a kid you never think you'll get there.
Then one day you wake up and you have three different types of
cars, you win the Indy 500 three times, you win the 24 Hours of
Daytona three times and you win some NASCAR races. It's a dream
come true for somebody like me.  Driving racing cars in the late
'80s, I thought that maybe I could be involved in the sport in
another capacity and enjoy it just as much. At the time that was
a difficult transition to make because racing really wasn't a
bona fide business. You could hardly tell someone you did that
for a living because if you did, they looked at you with a
raised eyebrow—especially in Pittsburgh, which is where I'm
from. While Pittsburgh is a great sports capital, I wouldn't
call it the auto racing center of the United States. Racing was
something that a lo