Sprint car racing has been a family tradition for three generations of Stansberry

Sprint car racing has been a family tradition for three generations of Stansberry's. My Grandfather Ken Stansberry began the tradition in the 40's when he began racing at tracks like Culver City Raceway and the historic Ascot Park. He built his own cars and really came up with some very interesting things,

there is even a picture of my grandfather pulling a trailer to Texas with his racecar. However my Grandfather primarily hired drivers to drive for him. In the 60's my Grandfather won a NARC championship as a car owner. My grandfather was inducted into the CRA old-timers hall of fame in 2000. The Nineteen Sixties marked

the beginning of my father's ( Ray Stansberry ) racing career. My father was a racer and was also on Dempsey Wilson's Indy Car crew. This was my father’s ticket to racecar fame until he was drafted to the war, losing his chance to go to Indy. When he returned he began working and raced a little at Ascot Park and El Centro Raceway until he got married and mom talked him into racing something different

like stock cars. My father did that during the 70's and early 80's until he settled down to raise his family. Twelve years past and we went to some races every now and then. We would go to Ascot and Manzanita a few times but mainly Hanford and Bakersfield Speedway to see CRA in action. I remember watching Leland
	*Tom Stansberry*

McSpaden and Ron Shuman go at it looking for the championship and observing as that group of people in the crazy red and white polk-ka-dot hats went around gathering money for the wags bucks. The Stansberry's did indeed love to race and I was chomping at the bit to drive a racecar. Then in 1992 my

father and I went to PIR to watch an Indy car race and there on display were DWARF cars, A cute little concept car with a motorcycle engine. I didn't think much of it until later that year when my father went to the Dwarf Car Nationals at Manzanita Speedway. My father bought his first dwarf car that weekend and put us back into racing. After a full season in the 75 pink and blue dwarf car major front-end

Ken Stansberry

changes were made to the car as well as a paint job and a number change. We had ordered a new dwarf car to be driven by my father and I was set up in the number 57 DWARF car. It didn't take me long before I won my first race. We ran together for three seasons the second of which I won a

	championship in. Then after the 1997 season we sold our cars and jumped in a sprint car where we won the rookie of the year honors in the number 75 sprint car. We then moved on to race with USAC, which takes us to the present. We finished seventh in points and had a really good year. Next year we hope to run some races and turn some more heads. Our goals are to find a really good ride, with a really
good team, that I can chauffeur to the top of any group that I might get to run with. Hopefully with any luck at all that ride will be in either an SCRA sprint car or a USAC western states sprint car but for now we will continue to live our family tradition. In preparation for the 2000 season the Sic'em Racing stable is undergoing a diet. We are currently shaving weight off both our cars to make them faster and better than ever. See you all in the winners circle in 2006.