Driverdb

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

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!

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Fahad_H

who? me?

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

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

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MPRacing

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

An old turd, like me? 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

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.

EIR Loe.307

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

Wylie13

Well if you really want to consider about age in a racing driver then down here in New Zealand we have a young guy by the name of Kenny Smith who has just started his 51st consecutive year of racing.

When he started racing he was against the likes of Stirling Moss & Jack Brabham and thru the years he has raced the likes of Jim Clark, Derek Bell, Mike Hailwood, Keke Rosberg, Paul Radisch, Craig Baird, Scott Dixon and today the youngsters like Earl Bamber & Co.

This season he will return to his favourite time of racing when he runs the Formula 5000 revival series and takes on his old adversery from the 70's in Graham McRae.

gordon

Wow-- I can't believe that there is a guy in New Zealand who is that old and still racing. How young was he when he began competing? I hope we end up with some folks like that here in the US.

creg

Kids learn things and remember them quicker than adults do, so the training might just start a little earlier than years in the past. Many people I remember growing up around, did not start racing until they were older, maybe now they are just starting sooner than the past did?