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Name: Patrick Staropoli
Current Residence: Plantation, FL
Age when started racing: 13
Personal Quote: “There are only three sports: Bullfighting, Motor racing and Mountaineering: All the rest are merely games” – Earnest Hemingway
Drug Free Message: “Weather you want to go 3-wide on the racetrack or get straight A’s in the classroom, you need to be drug free to make it happen.”
Type of racing: Super Late Model, Pro Stock, Pure Truck and Go-carts.
Series: Florida United Promoters Tour, ASA Late Model Series, FASCAR Pro Truck Series and FASTRUCK Series.
Awards/ Records: Series-Leading wins (6) FASTKIDS Series, Florida State Champion 100 Winner and Final Night Winner at Hialeah Speedway.
Toughest Tracks: Hialeah Speedway
Fastest Speed: 150 MPH
Best Racing Experience: Winning at Hialeah Speedway (my home track) on its final night of operation, August 13th 2005.
Worst Racing Experience: Having the steering wheel become disconnected form the steering shaft and hitting the wall head on at about 110 mph.
Sponsors: Rothe’s Auto repair.
Community Involvement: President of a chapter of Untie for Site (offering free vision screenings). Volunteering at a pediatricians office, and local events representing RAD.
Ultimate Goals: I plan to continue racing and attend medical school after graduation.
Important Qualities to Succeed in Life: Being relentless in pursuit of your goals and if given one shot to achieve what you want, to capture that moment and not let it slip.
Role models: My Parents. If I could be half the person they are I will be satisfied.
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