Hi there! Rick Young is my name and I live near to Ottawa, in the great country of Canada. I was born in Ipswich in the UK and moved here in 1994 .
At a very early age I became interested in auto racing and got my first taste of action as a toddler in the 1950's. My parents were followers of the Ipswich Witches Motor Cycle Speedway team and regularly watched them at the local Foxhall Stadium. I was taken there as a small child to see the bikes, as well as the new sport of stock car racing.
Following a change in my father's employment, the family relocated twice. From the late 1950's to the mid 1960's we lived in Witney, Oxfordshire before settling in the Dunstable area of Bedfordshire.
Not long after moving to Dunstable, the family made an afternoon visit to the Brafield Stadium in Northamptonshire to see the stock car racing and the interest was rekindled.
From that Sunday in 1965 onwards, I became a schoolboy race fan infatuated with the sport. When I left school my buddy and I built our first BriSCA F1 Stock Car car and in 1974 made my track debut at the Snetterton Circuit in Norfolk.
I raced both BriSCA F1 and F2 stock cars 'on and off' until 1989. Throughout that time, I remained an ardent race fan, going to watch any form of racing when ever I could.
In 1994 I moved to Ontario, Canada and within 2 weeks of my arrival I had visited my first stock car race. (the now defunct, Golden Lake Speedway) . After seeing DIRT Modified racing for the first time, at Can Am Speedway (Lafargeville NY) I got hooked and knew what my North American racing preference would be.
In 2003 I was asked to contribute North American news to SHORT CIRCUIT MAGAZINE, which is Europe's leading oval racing publication. From small beginnings it wasn't long before I took over the SHORT TRACK AMERICA pages which I do to this day. From there it mushroomed to a busy life in the media side of DIRT racing.
This web site is devoted to my life and times around the race tracks. I hope you enjoy your visit.
Rick Young