Husband to Chantel... Father to Kennedy and Kaden... Love racing sprint cars... Jack of all trades at family owned ag-lime business in North Central Indiana
Still get emotional thinking about this past week, and what it meant to me to be able to wheel the GoldEagle 7TW
@knoxvilleraces
!
Thank you
@TEAMDGRD
and all of our sponsors that made this happen! We made memories that I will cherish for the rest of my life!
I will never understand why everyone wants to bash tracks, teams, organizations in sprint car racing.... be thankful we have so many options and get to choose where we race every weekend!! If you want to travel do so! If you want to stay on the porch do so!! Merry Christmas!! 🏁
We need more 1/4 mile bullrings and less 1/2 miles
@WorldofOutlaws
!! Love
@jaxspeedway
!! Make big motors less of a factor and put more on the driver!
Proud of this team and what we did this week! We roll into the pits on an open trailer and beat some really good
@ASCoC
teams!
@JohnShewbrooks
does his best to give us a good car! Results don’t show but we made dash 2 of 3 nights! Bunch of guys that have fun and want to win!
The Wisconsin guys really surprised me with this one!! Can’t thank Tim Anderson, Chris Hartnell, and Donald Dodd!! First race is
@PlymouthSpeed
with the
@ASCoC
next week and then select IRA shows rest of summer!! Also thank you to Nick Alden and Todd Rhey
First off please don’t bash
@AtomicSpeedway
!! They are one of the very few trying to improve safety at there track!! Atomic is one of my favorite tracks to race at! Instead of bashing anyone let’s support a place that is trying to improve instead of do nothing!!
Race day with
@ASCoC
at
@PlymouthSpeed
!! Excited to get back behind the wheel of a 7tw car!! Can’t thank Tim, Chris, Donald, and Nick enough for making this happen!!
We need some positive news today... so I’m happy to say I’ll be back in the John Shewbrooks 79 car in 2021! This will be my 6th year driving for John and 20th year in a sprint car! 😳
I love the racing family! A random conversation
@AtomicSpeedway
got
@devinmoran99
a few laps in my car! Now I just gotta find a way into his car for a few laps! 🤷🏻♂️🏁
How many drivers last night with
@WorldofOutlaws
@BurgSpeedway
can say they made it to work at 7:30am this morning? ✋🏻 It’s not always easy but I wouldn’t trade it for anything!!
Will have more details later but we will be back at
@knoxvilleraces
Friday night to give it another go!! Thank you to everyone on
@TEAMDGRD
for never giving up no matter what! Also thank you to all you fans and friends for the messages and phone calls trying to help us out today!
Excited to bring this car back from the 90’s! So many memories wrapped up in this car and pumped to get my shot behind the wheel! Awesome to have GoldEagle on board for
@knoxvilleraces
Nationals! Thank you
@TEAMDGRD
for surprising me with this beauty!
#family
Rule
#101
: if you’re not happy with someone go deal with it at the track (we have all been there)... don’t wait til you leave then get on social media!
@TEAMDGRD
is ready to rock our first
@knoxvilleraces
Nationals! Thank you to
@maytag15
and
@BBBTYG_6
for trusting me to pilot this beautiful race car! Come check it out on the Block party downtown Knoxville til 8 PM tonight!
As it unfolded Live on it got probably a little too exciting for eventual winner
@BrandonWimmer
as lap traffic became a factor with 2 laps to go
@AtomicSpeedway
with
@coleduncan22
closing fast.
Yes that is a brand new never used wing from the late 80’s/ early 90’s.... why we kept it all these years I don’t know!! BUT I’m glad I have it at my house now!! I also think 1986
@ASCoC
champions!!
#familyhistory
No matter how crazy our country gets... I will always be proud to be an American!! Noah
@ShellShockCo
knocked this one out of the park! Thank you
@SimpsonRacing
@desireburkle
for all the support over the years!
I donated this original Tyler Walker Ratbag sideboard to the Hoserville Ohio injured driver benefit auction this weekend!! Please support this great group and pick up a rare piece of racing memorabilia!!
#helpingothers
#givingback
@BobbyGerould
One of the few things out here I don’t like seeing... the crowds in the pits after the races are getting smaller and smaller!! We need the races to get done early enough that the kids can come down to the pit after the races!!
FAMILY!!! To have this car back on the track and have my family and my grandparents there with me was definitely a special night!! Can’t thank my family enough for the sacrifices they have made to help me throughout my racing career!!
#racingfamily
Anyone have directions to some place called Lincoln in PA? 😂🏁 Thank you
@JohnShewbrooks
and team for giving me a hot rod tonight! I love Happy Gilmore checks!
Someone say there is a tire shortage? I don’t believe I have ever ran a 40 lap race in Ohio that didn’t take rubber! Held on for 11th tonight with the
@ASCoC
So this got brought up last night by
@StevenTiner94
... so let’s hear it! Have you ever really raced at Tulare if you don’t have a picture like this in turn 1-2?
@trophy__cup
2007
@RothMotorsports
Just one of those nights. Put it in the show with
@ASCoC
@AtomicSpeedway
but replaced ujoint after heat then no brakes in the feature! Survived to race another day! Thank you
@JohnShewbrooks
as always!
@BrandonWimmer
and
@TEAMDGRD
put it in victory lane tonight at East Moline Speedway in the Sprint Invaders series!
What a blast of a track and crowd, my goodness. Truly deserves an Outlaw or High Limit show.
We call this truck George. My wife jokes that I call it an investment! George Pears was the original owner and I am now the 4 overall owner since it was manufactured in 1947! Knowing the complete history of it in North Central Indiana makes it special to me!
Am I the only one that will be laughing if the track is slick tonight and there’s a lot of passing and everybody talks about how great the format is... 😂
@knoxvilleraces
This is why you never give up! 2020 has been a struggle for our race team till now!! Thank you
@JohnShewbrooks
for giving us great equipment! And Scott, Roger, Trevor, and Andy for all the hard work! 🏁🇺🇸
They should nickname
@BrandonWimmer
“The Surgeon” because he was slicing his way through lapped traffic with precision!
He picks up the
@OVSCA
feature win tonight
@35racewaypark
Impressive 22 cars started and 20 finished the race. 👍
Started 7th and finished 2nd
@AtomicSpeedway
! Beat some good cars! Finally starting to get the car rolling! Can’t thank my guys enough for never giving up!
Getting excited for the 2019 race season!! First race for John Shewbrooks is March 30th
@AtomicSpeedway
! First race in the 7tw in Wisconsin will be April 20th with
@IRA_sprints
Hot Laps are getting ready to start!! Only 18 months and he knows you gotta push start them!! 😂 can you tell he is growing up at the races!!
#dumptruck
#sprintcar
Sad to see true car owners disappearing! In 2007 I drove for
@RothMotorsports
. Had a off weekend so flew to Ohio to drive for Rick Ferkel! Kenny Jacob’s told me I reminded him of Ferkel and himself… I would show up all over the country for big shows! Best complement ever!
It never gets easier to lose a fellow competitor but what I admired most about Jason was the love he showed for this family! Please keep Bobbi, Jaxx, and the whole Johnson family in your prayers!!
#Godspeed
Finished P9 in a stout field of cars last night
@knoxvilleraces
! It’s very special to be able to fly the GoldEagle 7tw banner one more time! Thank you to everyone that stopped by tell a story or show love for this iconic car from sprint car racing history!
I know it’s a long shot but I will be
@knoxvilleraces
@ASCoC
next weekend if anyone knows of any options to race. 410 or 360 I just want to race! Please share!
There are no words to explain the feeling of losing one of our own!! Many great memories of when Greg drove our family’s car!! Praying hard for
@GregHodnett
family tonight!!
#RIP
Excited for the 2024 race season! Looking forward to being back with
@TEAMDGRD
and
@JohnShewbrooks
Racing! Hard to believe this will be my 23rd year behind the wheel of a sprint car! 🏁
Love it when drivers aren’t afraid to drive anything! AND let’s just say
@ZachVeach
drove it hard enough to find himself at the bottom of the hill off turn 2
@AtomicSpeedway
! 😂
The purest racing car I’ve ever driven in my life. Today was some of the most fun I’ve ever had behind the wheel. Big thank you to John Shewbrooks for the chance. Photos: Tyler Carr
Disappointed I’m not racing at Knoxville, but looking forward to spending a couple days in Kville before heading to
@RaceMansfield
for the weekend!! Thank you
@RaceMansfield
and
@codysommer
for putting up big money for teams that can’t go to Knoxville!!
Dang this
@TEAMDGRD
7tw has so much speed!
Qualified P2
Heat P4-P2
Feature. P3-P7.
Few spots short of locking into the A-main tomorrow. Not to bad for a washed up part-time racer! 😬
Thank you for all the love this week toward the 7tw and
@TEAMDGRD
I want to wish my grandfather Tom Wimmer a Happy 80th Birthday! If you know me well you know how close I am to him! We share our passion for racing and he has rough me many life lessons. Love ya grandpa!
Started 15th and ran 9th tonight with
@ASCoC
... good first night with the Wisconsin guys!! Really brought back some great memories seeing the car in person!!
Was looking at results last night from
@AtomicSpeedway
. 30 lap feature went none stop at alittle over 7 minutes.
@coleduncan22
and I were lapping 3rd and 4th place cars at the end! 😳
We have had a lot of people ask so here is the design!! We need your help though... what color shirt would you buy? We will be putting in an order soon!!
#opentrailer
Glamorous life!! 1 AM just got done washing the car... another hour till we’re back at the shop! Taking tomorrow off to regroup and try to figure out where we can gain some speed!! That’s the good thing about racing, tomorrow’s a new day!! We will see everyone
@AtomicSpeedway
When I lived out in California in 2007 I grew to love
@pvillespeedway
!! It’s my favorite track in the country!! Glad
@WorldofOutlaws
are bringing attention to this awesome bullring!! Only thing that would make it better is if I was there racing it!!
With today’s rain out my 2018 race season has come to an end! It’s time to focus all my attention to our agricultural business here in Indiana. I can’t thank John Shewbrooks Racing and Hartnell Motorsports for the opportunity to drive both of their cars!! Looking forward to 2019
Good to have a race car back in the old race shop today!! Was great having
@Tanner_Thorson
, my buddy
@lee_lindgren
, and the whole Tri-C machine team today!! Good luck the rest of the week
@USACNation
Indiana midget week!!
My daughter Kennedy has set my 2024 goals for me already! I walk into the shop today to see this! She is only 9 but she really is my motivational coach! 😬🏁
Hard to believe our family has been involved in sprint car racing for the last 35 years!
@prishow
2023 was a success! Thank you
@ti22performance
for having us! Thank you
@TEAMDGRD
for throwing it back to 90’s for me to drive this year! We love this sport! Looking forward to 2024!
Dang it felt good to get back behind the wheel after 7 months off! Wasn’t great in the rubber after lap 5 but we will take a 6th! Looking forward to the next race whenever that is!
It doesn’t matter how you get there! We put her in the show both nights this weekend! Gotta figure out the feature setup to get better but it was a solid weekend overall with the
@JohnShewbrooks
Racing team!
I have two side boards for sale. $150 each. Yes they are bent up but if you want to bring some American Freedom into your shop or man cave these will do it! All money going back into the race car to help this little team rebuild! Located in Indiana 🇺🇸🏁