Let's Race!

Lets Race!

Why do people want to race? I don’t know the history about when the first human decided to race another human, but the idea is as basic to human nature as anything else we do. Whether it’s kids racing each other on the beach, sprinters in a track meet or racers on PINKS putting it all on the line, we are all naturally intrigued with the idea of racing and beating someone else.

In this American culture, if we can’t compete ourselves there are virtually unlimited places and ways to watch someone racing something. It’s the true national past time.

It doesn’t matter what, who or how you race, the feeling is the same. – “I can beat you!” “No one can beat me!” “Let’s race!”

In my youth I was a pretty fast runner and I loved to race. I would race anyone anytime, anywhere and thanks to some genetic gift, I usually won. In fact I not only beat everyone at my school, I went on to beat everyone in my state, then my country (Australia) and got a four year track scholarship at the University of Texas at El Paso where I beat the pants off a lot of guys in the 100 yard dash. That was a long time ago but the idea of ‘winning’ and ‘beating’ a competitor lives on very deeply in me. In everything I do I am fiercely competitive and will do what ever I can to win. The only difference today is that the game of life requires extreme patience, poise, intelligence, character and loads of persistence rather than quick feet.

What is all this about? It’s the race. And for many people it is as natural as breathing, eating and sleeping.

Watching true competitors go at it, using everything they have to win is the best. At the moment I am fortunate to be present at every PINKS event during the actual taping and as the Producer/Director I have the best seat in the house. PINKS is a very special television show but an even more amazing live event because you get to see people stand and fight with every ounce of their courage to keep from losing their most prized possession, their rides. The intensity is not always the same, each situation, each show is different, people are not all the same. Beneath the surface of each competitor’s tough exterior however is the same feeling. “I want to race you.” “I can beat you.” “You can’t beat me.”

Let’s race!