How This All Started

So anyway, on Jan 16th 2010 after our annual bowling tournament from Norine's On Oakwood, Oak Creek, Wi. I'm sitting at the bar minding my own business, (drinking adult beverages) when my friend Shawn Utphall comes up to me and says; "when are we going to do this"? and I say; "what"? and he says; "go racing, we've been talking about it for 2 years!" We then proceeded to discuss how much money it would take, and how much each of us had to put into this project. We decided to go into a new racing series the ASA Midwest Tour was starting for the Sportsman series. It's a traveling series here in the midwest. Racing in Wisc, Minn, Iowa. It's a 10 race schedule which is just enough for us since we decided we didn't want to race every weekend. The following Thursday got even better when my good buddy Dennis Koss stopped by Norine's (for adult beverages), and since he loved auto racing too, we talked him into throwing in with us! He agreed to buy the body. (Hence the Grim Reaper). He calls himself "Darkside". They call me "Maddog". We haven't figured out a nickname for Shawn yet. (LOL)
Did I mention Shawn is the driver? Shawn started racing @ the old Hales Corners Speedway (dirt) in the hobby stock division, then moved up to the Sportsman class. He decided after a few years of eating dirt, asphalt racing was the way to go. He raced Mid-American Series for a few years but for various reasons got out of it. He's been out of racing the past few years but now has his buddy's Darkside & Maddog & uncle Kevin to help out. And there you have it, that's how Maddog Motorsports was formed. Stay tuned for future posts.