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So in essence Drew really is part of the race.
So are the people that sell handlebars and the guy who sells bearings, the referees and announcers.
They are all part of the behind the scenes community that come with the industry.
Drew is just one example.
Drew Carl is from Washington, Pennsylvania and he took his crew through the Midwest to Spring Creek Track in Minnesota for two weeks.
The crew was not used to the damp Minnesota weather since they spent the previous three weeks in the deserts of Las Vegas.
And the months before that, they enjoyed the sunny rays of Key West Florida.
As employee Cody Tarr points out, to be on the road so much as the vendors and racers takes an unmeasurable amount of dedication.
With dedication standpoint, you know, it's pretty unmatched.
When they travel every week, you know, I just have to compare it to any other extreme sport, whether skateboarding, snowboarding motocross, all that stuff.
It seems to be sort of the same crowd. You can tell they're definitely dedicated kids.
This determination is what keeps the racers moving with hopes of qualifying for the national competition in August.
John Martin has been involved in motocross for over 30 years and knows how much the Loretta Lins mean to the racers.
There's a big amateur race that culminates at Loretta Lins every year in August.
And it's made up of racers that have to qualify to get there.
So it's a big event all throughout the U.S. of A that the riders have to try to get to in August.
And like I say, those areas and regionals are the qualifying stuff to get in there.
And it's a lot of prestige if you've actually qualified or make it to the Red Lins.
And even more so if you can get there and kick some butt.
And it's the responsibilities of businesses like E-Score to be at qualifying events such as Spring Creek to provide their services, giving racers and their parents their times.
And it's only during the busy summer months of the racing season that Drew gets to have a little bit of company outside of Remington, his Wiener dog.
With the exception of the 2010 season, Drew does a lot of races solo.
But when situation allows, Drew has his right hand man with him, Tom.
Drew explains why he needs a guy like Tom around.
Tom's definitely an interesting character. I met Tom in high school probably, I don't know.
I think about 7th grade, we've been friends. He's a really good worker, basically what he comes down to.
He doesn't complain about anything and whatever you need, he's there to do.
Then there's the couple of Cody and Ashley, both aspiring photography students from Pittsburgh.
They take on traveling with E-Score as a summer job.
A lot of the free time I spend photographing models from the areas that we go to.
And just getting to do as much as my own thing on the side.
We do a lot of just traveling, taking photos.
We went shopping at the Mall of America this week.
When a business travels on the road with 3 to 4 people in a truck,
there are a lot more important things to worry about than who does the cooking.
The biggest thing is the trust, the fact that I don't have to worry that they're going to take pocket a bunch of money
or that they don't care about the equipment that we're using and just beating it around and don't care.
And the other big thing is being able to live with someone.
If you hire an employee to go on the road with you for 3 months, you're not just hiring somebody that has to be able to work well,
but you have to live in a 33-foot trailer with them for that entire time.
It's hard to find a roommate to live in an apartment or even a house together,
let alone being on the road away from all your friends for that amount of time.
The tight-knit crew, like many others in motorsports, travel from state to state,
setting up their gear before the race and tearing it back down after the final lap.
Track announcer Erik McCracken is an exception.
He travels by himself as a one-man show,
but he has developed a friendship with Drew and others in the community for over 6 years.
Most cases the vendors here seem to be very friendly to one another.
The vendors to the mechanics and most of the crew people, yeah.
This is our fourth year doing this series, so by now, of course, I know everybody just from,
you know, they need something from me or I need something from them.
I mean, relationships I've built from just coming to the track, basically.
Mario!
Yeah, as far as vendors go, I mean, he's familiar with quite a few of them.
One guy in particular is Mario, the Red Bull sponsor.
He's, man, he's always inviting us over to his trailer whenever we're at the same races
or go over and watch TV or games that are on and movies and stuff like that.
So, you know, it's definitely a small community.
People like Erik and Drew meet up at random races or series
and the friendly, neighborly chatter begins, catching up with each other
and sometimes making new friends.
Yeah, I knew him like Jordy really well.
He was really nice.
He was straight, he comes up here at once.
Drew says the community just isn't between vendors,
but also in between event coordinators and racers themselves.
And these racers grow up in a unique fashion.
In this industry, there's very much of almost like a family structure.
The people that all show up to these regularly and the staff here,
they all know each other well, know each other by name,
and, you know, they might go out to dinner after a race even.
It's a very close knit industry and it's a very limited and unique industry.
So, you know, it's almost like when we are kids and go to school,
these kids go to motor cross.
In the summer, racers who qualify for the next event will progress
and meet up with companies like eScore later on down the road.
Skipping across the country isn't exactly a nine-to-five job.
It's to ever be able to go back to a normal job
is having to listen to somebody tell you what to do.
Watch you on your own business and you call the shots
and you do what you want when you want.
It's pretty hard to go through.
The same time, going from race to race has its perks.
I get to travel around a lot.
I say my favorite part about eScore is the traveling around that we get to do.
Yeah, really just traveling, getting to meet everyone.
Yeah, I've been home like nine days since February, man.
Drew, who has been in the motorsports world since he was 16,
has seen three quarters of the continental U.S. and he is only 25 years old.
While Drew has been extremely privileged to have experienced so much,
he has to take it with a grain of salt due to the amount of hard work, chaos,
and as Tom explains, bad luck.
But like most people in his industry,
Drew does it out of a love, respect and appreciation of the sport.
The desire to be involved with something so unique
is a major driving motive besides the travel.
Motorsports is a very unique sport.
It's a very unique format.
It goes both ways.
A lot of people are attracted to it for that reason to be their own boss,
to be out on the road away from everybody,
but it makes it very hard to find employees and find people
that are dedicated to be away from home that often.
When you're trying to be gone for six months out of the year,
people have families, parents, girlfriends, kids.
It's pretty hard to find somebody that's willing to leave home
for that extended period of time and not be there.
When it comes down to it,
this subculture is a novelty to be around and experience.
And it's that allure that factors in with the love of the sport
that keeps Drew traveling alongside with Remington,
showing up at event after event from state to state,
rain or shine.
Look for Drew in the eScore trailer.
Thank you for watching.
