Bobby Joe Rippey: Working In A Race Car

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One day I hope to get into NASCAR it’s been my dream for as long as I’ve been alive. When I was little I remember working in my dad’s shop handing him tools and learning the basics of a race car. My dad says “ she has been starry eyed over race cars since she was little. She would always want us to start up the race car at late hours of the night after we were done working on it.” I always remember on Friday nights staying up late watching my dad and second father figure Bobby Joe Rippey work on the race cars and always winning the next day. I remember looking up at them one day and saying I'm gonna be just like you guys one day. Never once when I was young have I ever thought I would be where im at right now. Everyone I grew up around said