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Dennis "aXe" Sylvia
Austin, TEXAS
"aXe" aka Dennis Sylvia now living in Austin Texas. Was born in the Santa Clara Valley in California, in 1943. There was no one else in My family with an auto racing back ground except My Brother Ed Silva who pitted for a hard top team at the old San Jose spdwy in the early 60s. I went to My first hard Top race around 1956 at the now closed Alviso spdwy in the southern part of San Francisco bay. I have been a race fan ever since. I then at 14 years old got a job at Taylors Safety Service doing mainly auto brakes work soley because they had a Hardtop. They then graduated up to a midget, And I went along for the ride. My next racing job was at GMB Mfg building and repairing race cars, mostly the Benson midgets popular out west. I finaly went into civil service working for a city and a school district before retireing.  Then the internet hit, While gabbing on a forum way back about ten years ago I was asked to write for their web site. I have been doing auto race writting ever since, First with openwheelracing.com then openwheelracers.com, Along about then I came to do some articles mostly about indy cars from the speedway at indyracereports.com, Now I am publishing race reports and auto racing Stories along with news for My own site openwheelracers3.com


Brad "The Son-in-Law"
Deanna "My Daughter
Austin, Texas 
Official Web Designer's, Web Master's & Editors




Don Holbrook
Wheat Ridge, Colorado
contributor to OWR3
Check out Bon's blog here  http://freebirdmotorsports.blogspot.com/
Don Holbrook from Wheat Ridge, Colorado.  Born and raised in Denver, Colorado until I was 15 years old.  My father and I moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.  Been around racing all of my life.  Drove Modified Midgets and SCCA Formula Fords in the mid 80’s in the Southeast for a couple years.  My father introduced me to National Speed Sport News in 1985 where he was a writer for National Speed Sport News (NSSN) as well a PR person for numerous racing associations. That’s when I started and continue to work with them to the present.  I have had my photographs and reports published in various racing newspapers, magazines, web sites, and calendars.   

    Past clients include; Chevrolet, BF Goodrich, General Tires.  Contribute to various racing web site such as Midget Madness, Hose Heads, Big West Racing, Indiana Open Wheel and other racing web sites. 
Media/Marketing clients includes; Rocky Mountain Midget Racing Association (RMMRA), Chris Sheil Racing and Mikula Racing.  
   Been to numerous tracks through out the country covering dirt (USAC, World of Outlaws), asphalt (Indy Car Series, NASCAR, CART), road racing (SCCA), drag races (NHRA), and off road races (PPIHC, CHCA). 

Career Highlights: 
1985 - Present: National Speed Sport News
                            1989 - 1990:  Colorado Hill Climb Association Official Photographer
         1990:  Pikes Peak Auto Hill Climb Official Photographe
                           2002:  Rocky Mountain Midget Racing Association (RMMRA) Media Relations/ Asst. Director of Competition.
                2003 - Present:  Rocky Mountain Midget Racing Association (RMMRA) Media Relation/Photographer.
                   2003 - Present:  Bigwestracing.com (Staff Writer/Photographer) 

JR Williams
Carson City Nevada
Contributor to OWR3 
JR Williams an auto-racing writer from Carson City Nevada, He started racing stock cars around 1951 give or take a year. Graduated from high school in NE PA in 1952 - three years of college at General Motor Institute. Held licenses in Anthracite Auto Racing Association, Superior Auto Racing Association, NASCAR, USAC, ARDC. Drove stock cars, midgets, modifieds and sprint cars. Joined Hawaiian Airlines as a pilot in 1964. Drove SCCA sports cars in Hawaii for two years. Began sailing and logged over 50,000 miles of blue water sailing including three passages between Hawaii and the mainland US, plus five years of cruising in the South Pacific after retirement from Hawaiian in 1964. Swallowed the anchor in 2000 and began driving dwarf cars with NORCAL and Western States Dwarf Car Association in 2001 and moved back into midgets with USAC, BCRA and Capital Cities Midget Association in 2003. Two midget wins in 2008 (Petaluma and Marysville). Finished fourth in series points in UTAH USAC Focus Series in 2010. Wrote for OpenWheel Racing.com, Open Wheel Racers.com and Open Wheel Racers3.com since 2003. Prior to that He was a contributing editor for Private Pilot Magazine for seven years, also wrote for Ocean Navigator, Lattitude 20, Travel Holiday, Road Rider, Hawaii and numerous others. Non-fiction instrument flying book won Best Technical Book of year award from  Aviation/Space Writer's Association. Book went through six editions. As a pilot held ATC (airline transport pilot), flight instructor, ground instructor, glider certificates. Also worked as a Coast Guard licensed charter sail boat skipper.



Kevin Triplett
Live Oak California
Contributor to OWR3
 Kevin Triplett an auto-racing historian and writer from Live Oak, California was born into a racing family; his great-uncle was Ernie Triplett, the 1931 and 1932 AAA Pacific Coast champion and 5-time time Indianapolis 500 starter. Kevin drove his father’s sprint cars in the Midwest in the 1970’s and 1980’s before deciding that he was much better behind the keyboard than he was behind the wheel of a race car. Kevin’s articles have appeared in print in the The Alternate and National Speed Sport News, and online at Openwheelracers3.com. Kevin is a long-time member of the Yahoo! Racing History Group, serves on the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame induction committee, and provides the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame with research assistance. Although Kevin’s articles mainly deal with racing history, he occasionally provides openwheelracers3.com with articles on current notable racing events in Northern California and across the country.

 
Sparky Hegwer
Tulsa Ok
Contributer to OWR3


Ernie Saxton
Langhorne Penn.
 Contributor to OWR3


Jerry Reigle
Contributor to OWR3
for Saxton Communications



Lonnie Wheatley
Tulsa OK.
Contributer to OWR 3


"Methanol Mel" Anthony
Washington
Contributor to OWR3

Born Richmond Beach, Wa. early 1920’s. Grew up within earshot of four operating speedways. As a young teenager, I was part of the “knothole gang”, watching races through the fences, or better yet, sneaking in.
Nearly every auto repair garage housed some type of race car. Often they would park them out front, and I developed a keen interest. My early race attempts began in 1939 at a 5/8 mile high banked dirt track. A Seattle newspaper, (Seattle Star) sponsored a 100 lap jalopy race, and my car was a “well used” former model T big car. My race lasted only two laps, as I was sidelined with a multitude of problems.
The next season (1940) I drove a roadster race on this same 5/8 speedway. This time I finished second behind the talented Tommy Leggee a very successful big car and midget driver. By now I had developed a “Swagger” and proceeded to practice at a ½ mile dirt horse track near Everett, Wa. I crashed badly, was hospitalized with serious injuries, lost a year of high school, and my reputation preceded me. When I attempted to enter any race tracks, I was refused entry.
Fast forward: WWII was upon us, auto racing was halted, and many of us were either drafted or joined the service. I chose the Navy, and it was a rewarding four years. I learned many skills that would later apply to building and repairing race cars. Upon discharge in 1946 I began a ten year career driving midgets in the Northwest. Washington, Oregon, and Canada. The family became larger, the purses became smaller, I hung up the battered helmet in 1956. 
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Over the years I would write short articles and submitted a few to Phyllis Devine of the Alternate Race paper. The late Phyllis was most helpful, and encouraged me to continue. Soon the articles became longer, and I finally made the move to publishing my book, Smoke, Sand, and Rubber. In it is my racing bio, and wherever possible I would bring along my fellow racers. The book was a six year effort, a lot of work, but rewarding in the end. Some of my short articles are on web sites in Australia, New Zealand, and our openwheelracers.3.com site.
Oh yes, I became “unretired” on May 12, 2010 at Post Falls Idaho, winning my first main event in 54 years, at age 87,  while driving our 1947 vintage Kurtis Offy. We have been quite successful racing the car last summer, and are looking forward to another fun season in 2011




This team below
Has for years brought to the So Cal scene
many fine articles by Richard Parks with photos by Roger Rohrdanz .
you can find them at
http://www.hotrodhotline.com


Richard Parks
Southern Californa
contributor to OWR3 

 
Roger Rohrdanz
   Southern California
Photo contributor to OWR3



Gerald Laurie
California
Contributor to OWR3

 


Tim Kennedy
  Los Angeles Ca. 
Contributor OWR3

 

Robert Haugh
Santa Clara Calfornia
Contributor to OWR3


  Dino Oberto
Pennsylvania
   Contributor to OWR3
 Hometown: Hazle Township, Pa. (Lattimer Mines)
Motorsports correspondent for Bloomsburg (PA) Press-Enterprise & Hazleton (PA) Standard-Speaker
On Board of Directors for Eastern Motorsport Press Association (EMPA)
2009 awarded Frank Blunk Memorial Writer of the Year with EMPA
Has won numerous writer awards with EMPA
Announcer/PR for Mahoning Valley Speedway, Lehighton, PA
Co-announcer Pocono Raceway
 Media staff, Pocono Raceway
 Been announcing for past 25-years which began at Evergreen Raceway, St. Johns, PA





 Gary Gasper
Indiana
Photo Contributor to OWR3
Gary Gasper is a race photographer/writer for racestarpublications.com out of central Indiana.  He hails from Valparaiso, Indiana since 2002.  Saw his first race
at the age of 6, about 100 years ago!  He will once again cover these tracks for Racestar this year:  Illiana Motor Speedway, Shadyhill Speedway, Kokomo Speedway, Salem Speedway, all in Indiana.  Kankakee County Speedway in Illinois and Hartford Speedway in southern Michigan.  A few others, Plymouth and the recently re-
opened South Bend Speedway will be visited this year also.  And maybe a few other surprises as the year goes along.  His photos have appeared in Stock Car Racing
Magazine, National Speed Sport News, various other online racing websites, driver's websites, racetrack programs, automotive catalogs and racetrack tee-shirts!
He has photographed at Daytona and many times at the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis.  Contact him at garygaspix@hotmail.com.  Also is on Facebook.
"Support you local racetrack before it becomes a shopping mall"                  




Richard Golardi
Melbourne Florida
Contributor to OWR3



Chris Cleveland
Sacramento California
Contributor to OWR3


Les Stark
Northern California
Contributor to owr3

I was born April 11, 1930 in Seattle Washing and grew up and attended school in the Ballard area. I was totally unaware of auto racing until 1946 when I attended a Midget race at Playland Stadium in Seattle. I was hooked right from the start. Auto racing has been a big part  of my life ever since.