The story of SOAR RACING starts with Rick Altis. Founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Rick invested countless hours organizing and developing one of the finest sim-racing leagues on the web; but he is much more than a racing enthusiast. Rick is also a great sim-racer and has many trophies to show for his talents. Over 100 wins aint too shabby!
Rick is also an accomplished Blue Grass Artist, a terrific wood carver and more important than all this, a dedicated family man.
If you are fortunate enough to meet Rick, and look into his eyes, you'd see the picture of kindness, integrity, and respect for his fellow man!
Our gratitude and respect go to you Boss.
Wayne Smith is one of the "senior" members of CFM at the young age of 45! Needless to say, he has multitudes of experience in SOARACING. Currently, runs in the Online Winston West Series. Wayne has been running in SOARACING since 1998, and won his first race in the now defunct ORSA Bronze Truck Series in May 1998. To his credit, he is the 2000 99ers Offline Champion, the 2002 SOARacing Winston West Champion, and the 2002 SOARacing Saturday Winter Series Champion. In Wayne's spare time, he enjoys fishing and eating at Hooters! Wayne and his wife Barbara now reside in Clearwater, FL.
John Hemming, real life racer at the age of 15.
Served Uncle Sam where he logged 3,000 miles in an A-6E Intruder.
Started sim-racing in 1995 and has become a proven Champion.
Meet Don Bergin, Owner and CEO of BMsports. Co-Comish of SOAR -Racing. Don resides in Main with his wife Anne. Proud father of four; 3 girls and a boy: Melissa 22, Cynthia 16, Holliann 13, and up and coming racer Donald E. Bergin III, he is 10 and starting to paint cars and demolish BMsports profits.
Pipefitter by profession. Wonderful family man. Loves racing, been at it since N2 days. Discovered SOAR back in '99. When he's not racing, he enjoys hunting and fishing. Tough competitor and proven winner.
Tom Brusati (father of 6 and grandfather of 5!) was born in Las Vegas and is now a citizen of Montana. He's been racing since the first NASCAR game came out, and has them all in his library. Founder of his own racing team and now affiliated with CFM.
What a tough competitor!!
John Tenney, CEO and former airline pilot and software engineer, also involved in the field of Sports Marketing where he represents several drivers in their NASCAR and other racing pursuits. His Sim-Racing career is blossoming.
Andrew Mendes lives in Kentucky where he attends a Technical College majoring in, what else, Computer Technology. He built his newest computer just to participate in several computer games including NASCAR 3. Loves the challenge, loves the competition.
John Zakarauskas III Owner of the JZ3 Racing Team. He's a talented artist when it comes to cars. He volunteers his painting talents to any driver in need of a custom paint job. John is a graduate from Johnson College in Scranton, PA and is currently seeking a position in the Architectural field. He's a native of Pennsylvania.
Name: Steve Dunn Nickname: StevieD
Occupation: Black Hawk Pilot, US Army
Location: Ft. Polk, Louisiana
Born in Louisiana, Married to my beautiful Jennifer for 18 years. We have 2 kids, Zackery (15) and Shelby (10).
It was there that I began my online racing career with Sim Racing International (SRI). Later I found SOAR Racing. It's hard to compete for a championship when Uncle Sam is always calling me to far off places, so I do what I can to compete.
I enjoy fishing and hunting in my off time but would rather spend time with my family traveling or just hanging out.
Tommy Rose is 35 years old, married to Jessica. They have three wonderful children, ages 13, 11 and 5.
A career in Construction has prepared him for the position of Personnel Coordinator.
His hobbies include Harley motorcycles, Dirt Late Model Racing, Golf, Fantasy Sports.
He's been involved in sim racing for the last ten years or so and has accumulated an impressive number of wins.
Team wins: I don't know, 75 SOAR victories, 300+ online victories. Driver of fast and furious car #29
Our deepest Condolences go to Tommy for the recent loss of his wife Jessica.
Gus Campuzano, age 64 +. Married to Debbie. We have two sons, Mario 36 and Michael 26.
I'm an Architect working for a home builder in north east Pennsylvania.
Sim racing is definitely a change of pace for me but I do enjoy it and I will get better at it.
I've been with SOAR Racing since I started racing back in '98 or so.
After a few enjoyable years as a member of Team Cabin Fever Motorsports, Mario and I decided to form Team XS Racing.
Jay lives in Vinton, Va. with his family. Deanna is his beautiful wife and together they have two children, Justin (12) and Erin (7). Jay makes a living as a machinist and roving representative for Apparatus Repair Service in Salem, Va. He has been employed there over 12 years now. He met his wife in Charlottesville, Va. at a college bar (UVA) named Max and Trax. One Month later they started their lives together.
Jay captured his first Championship in 2003, by winning the 2003 Busch Online Championship. At the end of 2003, Jay decided to leave and join up with another good group of local guys at Midnight Motorsports, where he continued his success, but recently has decided to come back to CFM!!! Welcome back Jay!!! Jay is also proud that his son, Justin is also racing along side him as a CFM member!
Hello Everyone
My Name is Clyde "Pap" Pettit or CPettit and I am a retired 64 year old, living in Leesburg, Florida now, formerly from Southern Jersey about as far south in NJ as you can get.
I have been racing in the NSDRA dirt leagues for a few years and lately a few of us are trying out the asphalt. Three of us have signed up for the truck league and hope to sign on for a couple of others if all goes well. I will be looking forward to meeting you all on the site and especially Garry Brant who lives here in Leesburg.
Hey Ya'll
My name is Jim Reavis and I live in the Southern part of Illinois (Flora). I'm a Correctional Officer with the Ill. Dept. of Corrections for 15 years and have been married for 17 with 2 TEEN AGE GIRLS (17 & 13) that love to drive their 39 year old Dad crazy!!!!!! I've been apart of NSDRA (Dirtwizard.net) for about 3-4 years and as the Ole' Man (Pap) we are both Admins at that site. I'm also the Skin Director at NSDRA and Pap is my right hand man at helping with every season's skins and uploads (couldn't do it without him). Just as Pap said, I'm looking forward to meeting ya'll and look forward to some great racing. Also just to let everyone know, I'll probably be ask'n alot of questions till I get use to the format , so please bare with me...... I'm what ya would call Redneck Computer Illiterate!!!!!!
Hey Guys,
I'm the 3rd guy that came over with Pap and Jim to run with you guys,
Name is Paul Lininger aka DRT_Frogg Im 29 years old, I live Emproium Pa,lets just say there is more trees here than there are people. Its a small town. Married for 8 yrs. have a little redhead monster my little girl, Been racing online for about 9 years, started running dtr1, then jumped to dtrsc, then they came out dtr2,and one of old guys that helped form NSDRA,during my day there I ran a couple of leagues, sprints prostocks, and right now i run a little league Friday and Saturdays running N2k3 league just 4 or 5 that run in it, its fun
So I look forward to running in some leagues, see you on the track.
Tom Herod has been racing trucks for the past 12. He cut his teeth in the SUPER TRUCK division of NASS98 where he finishing 10th overall in his rookie season.
1999 saw him make a real charge for the lead in NASS99 with a win from the pole at Talladega and another win at Michigan.
Tom is a native of Waynesburg, PA. and is currently residing in Nora Springs IA.
