Drivers are Growing Younger

[Driverdb]

In the real world people grow older, but in the racing world the latest trend is to grow younger. :huh:

I've been sent updates to several drivers regarding their date of birth recently. The only change from for example 1982-06-15 is 1983-06-15. I then check with their official page and, yup.... 1983-06-15.

I then check their website using the marvellous http://www.archive.org to see a snapshot of their homepage from previous years. And if you go back a year or so you'll find that they then were born 1982-06-15. So for 2008 they grew a year younger! Pathetic! :mad:

[Fahad_H]

1983-06-15.


who? me? :lol:

It really sucks if you want to make it in the higher leagues, but you get older and you are stil in club racing.
I will turn 25 soon, and I continue racing in clubs championships. What an old fart I am :(

[Driverdb]

who? me? :lol:

Didn't realize I got pretty damn close to your birthdate with my random example. :lol:

[MPRacing]

who? me? :lol:

It really sucks if you want to make it in the higher leagues, but you get older and you are stil in club racing.
I will turn 25 soon, and I continue racing in clubs championships. What an old fart I am :(

Ummmmm, I didn't run my very first race of any kind until I was 43. If you're an old fart at 25 what does that make me? :(

[saltysurprise]

Ummmmm, I didn't run my very first race of any kind until I was 43. If you're an old fart at 25 what does that make me? :(

An old turd, like me?:lol: J/K But you have a couple of years on me

Gotta keep in mind, a lot these guys are/were career racers from a young age, getting into Kart and whatnot when they were young.

[MPRacing]

An old turd, like me?:lol: J/K But you have a couple of years on me

Gotta keep in mind, a lot these guys are/were career racers from a young age, getting into Kart and whatnot when they were young.

Well I look at it like this, Morgan Sheperd is in his 60's, and he is still at it. As far as I'm concerned, if I can get a good ride with good sponsorship, I've got 20 years of good racing ahead of me. My two biggest obstacles when I started on this quest was lack of experience and my age. But EVERYBODY had their first time for everything. :D

[EIR Loe.307]

It also depends on what series you're racing in. Old in F1 is young in NASCAR. It's all relative.