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Fastrack Engineering became a reality as a result of a personal challenge for Rod Hetrick to design and build himself a better race car. Rod's mechanical knowledge and abilities came about naturally by his exposure to cars at his fathers and uncle's auto repair facility and to his fathers previous racing experience. As expected Rod aided by his father became involved in racing Go Carts, motor cycles and NASCAR Grand Nationals known now as Winston West. The demands and expense of the tour began to effect other required responsibilities causing the Son Father team to look for other less demanding and expensive racing activities. This choice resulted in becoming involved in racing stock body Ford Pintos at the San Bernardino Orange Show Track, The stock Pinto requires considerable modification if you intended to drive this car around an oval track under reasonable control, this necessary requirement was the start of his desire to build himself a better race car. His success on the track brought others asking Rod to modify or build a car for them resulting in the start of Fastrack Engineering. The Fastrack hard body Pintos raced at the Orange Show and Blythe with the cars regularly finishing in the top five at Oss and dominated at Blythe. Fastrack success inspired a request from a customer who wish to elevate his racing level to Pro-Four Late Models that required an off set tube frame, coil over sprung car. Fastrack's first pro four was built for Jim Warden and was first raced with Msra in June 5th 1993 at Madera and resulted in Jim's first race in Msra , setting fast time and finishing 2nd by a nose in the dash and the main, a great start for both Fastrack and Jim with a 93 season of 4 top 5 / 2 top10/ 2 fast times/ 1 track record and sixth in points. 1994 season finished with the Msra Fastrack 02 car 4th in points two wins two track records including the all time Msra record at Blythe at 13:59. In 1995 rule changes at Blythe to give the Pintos the appearance of a Pro -4 these rules allowed tube chassis with limited modified stock suspension and late model bodies referred to as (LMC) limited modified late models. The Fastrack built cars became the standard and were the dominate cars in the (LMC) class at Blythe. Racing with Msra in 1995 the Fastrack cars were still a minority with only 2 fastrack cars that occasionally raced during the season neither finished in the top 10. In 1996 the (LMC) cars were accepted to race with Msra with special weight allowances Fastrack produced over a dozen of these LMC that were dominate at Blythe and finished in the top 5 and top 10 at the Msra events. During the 1996 season Fastrack finished the second full Pro-4 chassis car for Rocky Nash This Cosworth powered car won the 96 Msra champions ship with four other Fastrack (LMC) cars in the top 10 in point. The 1997 MSRA season produced 1-Fastrack (LMC) car in the top 5 and 3 Fastrack cars in the top 10 in final points. The 1998 Msra season finished with 2 Fastrack cars in the top 5 and 2 in the top 10. 1999 was a big year for Fastrack with cars finishing 1-2-3-4 in the season points and an additional 2 cars in the final top10 in points. A combined total of 11 Fastrack wins a Pro -4 track record of 19:33 at Mesa Marin and 1 car winning the Esslinger King Of Fours The 2000 Msra season again had Fastrack the # 1 car in points with 2 cars in the top 5 and 1 in the top 10 and again having the # 1 car winning the Esslinger King Of Fours challenge 2001 Msra season (?) 2002 Msra season resulted in major rule changes that resulted in only one Fastrack car #24 of Frank O'Brien driven by Ed Reed competing in the series but one fastrack car was enough to win the 02 Msra points championship. One other Fastrack car, the #84 driven by Eddie Secord freelanced the balance of the 01/02 season racing at any and all available Pro -4 challenge races at Madera, Lakeport, Mesa Marin, Utah, Blythe and Irwindale tracks against all competition with total winning success (winning 13 of 16 races) in spite of rules that forced unrealistic performance handicaps on this team. Their success was the combined energy of the team that stressed proficiency and consistency. The history of the Fastrack Pro-Four chassis is one of racing success, to this date Fastrack has never built a true production model race car. Each following car has received the latest new designs and improvements making each car unique. Quality Workmanship was never a question only a reality. |
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Car #0 Neil Hansen Car #1 Dennis Melton Car #02a Jim Warden (Car #24's "a" car) Car #02b Jim Warden Car #07 Richie Lloyd Car #23 Mike Wright Car #24a Pat O'Brien (sold to Matt Harold, Utah) Car #24b Frank O'Brien Car #39 Carson Woods Car #50a Steve Almquist Car #50b Steve Almquist Car #55 Sam Harris (Car #72 Terry Rennick) Car #57 Rob Miller Car #84a Eddie Secord (Car #79 Marty Elizg) Car #84b Eddie Secord Car #88a Rocky Nash (Car #38 Phil Pratt) Car #88b Rocky Nash (Mike Hildebrand) |
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