Name: Paul Fitzsimmons

Age: 40

Marital Status: Single

Hometown: Wrightsville, PA

Occupation: Police Detective

Years Racing: 10

Racing experience: Micro sprints, 250 & 600, Legends

Years involved in Racing: Since Birth!

Other racing experience: Karts, pit crew experience on micros, midgets

Other sports: 25 years amateur/semi-pro hockey, football.

States raced: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, New York, Indiana, Illinois, Delaware and Maryland

Wins: 14 (in Micro sprints)

Tracks Raced: Trail-ways Speedway, Path Valley Speedway, Hill Valley Speedway, Lincoln Speedway, Susquehanna Speedway Park (all tracks located in Pennsylvania)

Current Racing: Legends Cars of Central Pennsylvania, first year

Car: 1934 Ford Sedan, 1250 Yamaha motor, red and white

Sponsors: Hammerhead Promotions, Keystone Trailers

Biggest win: Pike County Speedway, Illinois in my micro sprint

Most Memorable win: Lincoln Speedway, PA in front of family and friends in my micro sprint

Worst racing memory: 1998 sprint crash at Trail-way speedway where I broke my back, severe concussion, and had to have my thumb rebuilt

Most disappointing race: Amelia County Speedway, Va., leading on the last lap of the feature coming out of turn four with the checkered in sight the motor burned and stopped 50 ft. from the finish line in my micro sprint

Favorite personal racing accomplishment: Founding Microracing.com in 1997 and guiding it to a national website for micro sprints and small car racing. The site has over a million people a month on it. I sold the site in spring of 2004 to Dale Thomas

Favorite racers: Jack Hewitt, Anyone but Gordon, Todd Kane, Keith Kauffman

Those that helped me in racing: Mike Dicely, Scott Fellenbaum, Mike Miller, Darryl Dunmire, Randy Kissinger, Ron Cooper and anyone else that helped me put things back together I may have missed!

Best friend in racing: Dave Nale, owner also of Hammerhead Promotions. The last few years have been a blast and a crash, but he stuck by me in the pits and off the track.

Future racing ambition: Have fun again racing. If the opportunity arose to get a ride back in a micro, call me!

Paul's Story:
Being born into a family where Paul’s dad Pete had attended races in New Jersey since he was a child, it was only natural Paul would catch that bug too. Paul Traveled with his family to the deep South following races on the NASCAR circuit, to the Midwest dirt tracks watching the sprint cars run. After helping on a midget crew at a younger age, Paul always knew one day he would love to drive. Eventually, Paul settled in Pennsylvania where the racing was hot from sprint cars to stocks. Paul got his start racing micro sprints in 1996. Not content after a couple years of getting into the weekly points drag, Paul innovated by creating a national website, MicroRacing.com in 1997 and built the site to attract national advertisers in the micro sprint world to help finance his racing, to allow more freedom of movement to where he wanted to race. The result was racing more tracks in more states, not being tied down to one area because of sponsorship commitments.

In 2003, Paul sold his entire micro-sprint operation after a successful stint in micro-sprints to ponder the racing future, and sat the season out to look at other more affordable and fun racing divisions. He settled on trying the LEGENDS cars. 2004 was Paul’s “rookie” year in this new but competitive series. Paul found that there was a learning curve as in any sport, and the drivers in this series were some of the best drivers around.

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Sarah, the most important cheerleader in my life!