Anything You Can Do I Can Do Too

Cambridge, ON - August 18, 2014
Photo via NationalSpeedSportNews.com

This past Saturday night at Jefferson Speedway in South Dakota, Isaac Schreurs set a new motorsport record, becoming the first paraplegic driver to win a major 'A' Main Sprint Car race.  Schreurs led the 25 lap race flag to flag.  Sprint Car racing is a tough and demanding form of racing, so Schreurs has accomplished quite the feat with this win.  Schreurs lost the use of his legs 7 years ago at age 14.

Also, our friend Austin Riley was featured on Toronto, Ontario's Global News this past weekend.  Here's the link to the News Video.  When Austin's father Jason says that Austin will steal a piece of your heart and you'll never get it back, he's telling the absolute truth.  Austin owns a  piece of our hearts here at Inspiration At Speed.

Some other news from the last week comes to us from our friends at Race2Recovery over in the United Kingdom.  First, R2R co-founder Tony Harris and 2014 Dakar Rally-Raid finisher Daniel 'Baz' Whittingham will be representing the U.K. in next months Invictus Games.  You can get more information on the Games at their WEBSITE..  The REALLY great news was the unveiling of the new livery for one of the R2R Wildcats. This is the moment where we indulge in a little 'car porn'.  The photo of Gordon in his new livery comes to us courtesy of R2R.

Finally, we'd like to give a shout out to the blog of former R2R PR and Social Media Guru Deborah Harrison.  She's started a blog about occupational therapy in mental health and posted this week about the value of motorsport as a recovery therapy.  She was kind enough to include us in that post, for which we are very appreciative.  She raises an important point in her blog post on motorsport as a Recovery Tool that we can't argue with.  That point is that motorsport can be an incredibly powerful tool for recovery from physical trauma, physical injury, and mental health issues.  You can read her latest post here.

Welcome to Inspiration At Speed

Cambridge, ON - July 28, 2014

Many of you will be familiar with this series of articles from In The Pits Media and CBS Sports' In The Pits Racing Radio.  For the first year of its life the series lived on In The Pits Media's website.  I'm very grateful to ITPM for hosting the series in its first year, but there is so much more that can be done with the series.  We've moved it over to its own independent blog, which provides us with many new opportunities.  While the series will continue to be published on ITPM's website, this blog presents the opportunity to expand on the series and the people featured in the series.

First, we can now provide regular updates on the events and people featured in the series via the News Page of this blog.  That means we can tell you when one of our 'inspiring stories' is racing somewhere, how they do at the events they race at, and what news and announcements they have about their racing activities.  It also means we can create a Twitter account for the series, a Facebook Page, and make use of other social media to spread the continuing stories of inspiration we write and care about.

We're still working on more stories, as there are so many stories out there that need to be told.  They are from different parts of the globe, and it takes time to put those special and unique stories together.  As it sits now, we have two stories in the works, with one waiting for an approval to release and another ready to be researched and written.

We hope that when you're in need of a heartwarming story, a story to encourage you to continue on facing whatever challenge you're dealing with, or you just want to read a feel good story that you'll check us out.

We hope you'll agree with us.  There is 'Inspiration At Speed.'

Colene & Brooke