Leaving a Legacy - College Racing is Here! - #84
The Newest Varsity Sport has Emerged
Find your way into the world of #grindlife and hustle-porn and youβll be inundated by young dudes (and sometimes women) who fully emulate the David Gogginβs approach to life:
stay hard! stay focused! work harder!
never give up! weakness is for losers! eat the pain!
reach your dreams! change your mindset! build your legacy!
While these platitudes serve (some), I think for many, itβs merely a phase in which many builders (need) to go through: a kick in the teeth to remind you that if you have any dreams, you must build them yourself. While this advice isnβt wrong, I donβt necessarily enjoy being yelled at as encouragement, but I fully understand it.
What Legacy are You Leaving?
βAlways be concerned with what legacy youβre leaving behind.β - Jack Hobbs, Founder of the Collegiate Racing Series
My trajectory in life has been blessed beyond measure. Entrepreneurship has been the life-blood of my career and this has allowed me to spend much of my time building speed-machines for myself and my son. 20+ years ago, I would have loved to go to Florida State and been given an option to join the FSU Race Team. How awesome would that have been! Iβve talked to hundreds of men and women who wished the same. Better late than never, right?
It has been my absolute pleasure to work with the amazing team at the Collegiate Racing Series, the sanctioning body of college racing in the USA and beyond. Some really profound numbers in just the last 6 months:
600+ schools globally involved
30+ schools in America using the CRS curriculum to build their varsity sport
3+ schools building their motorsports program with CRS - Clemson University has accredited our program as a full semester course starting in 2026!
50M+ views on social media with several videos going viral! - The appetite for student racing is voracious!
Student Racing is Secured
The Collegiate Racing Series has created the Bible for students getting into racing aged 12-25. It is exactly what the world has needed for decades: a codified and knowable program and ladder system for anyone wanting to get into the world of racing. Itβs been an absolute pleasure for me to participate in this amazing legacy project that will last far beyond my lifetime.
Imagine being one of the founders of the SEC or NCAA??? - This is how I feel.
200 years from now when Iβm long and dead, a curious mind will wonder who built the sanctioning body and accredited university motorsports program that has produced some of the greatest drivers of their generationβ¦ when they look it up, theyβll see me and the CRS team.
Iβm SO excited for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build a real legacy in a sport I love, a passion thatβs soul-deep, and a purposeful project I know Iβll be engaged in till the day I die.
Let Your Network Know
A full motorsports education is finally here.
A codified program to get into racing is finally here.
A championship racing series for college students on TV is finally here.
Follow them on Instagram and subscribe to see the journey on their YouTube.
Humbled and grateful.
All the best,
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