John Schultz part 3

okay everybody we're back again for part three of our interview with John Schultz uh John is is there anybody that helped you during your racing days that you uh give thanks to or anything like that well my earlier years we went we had a lot of good guys you know and and but they always seem to come and go um my last years was my wife Barb and my son Paul mhm uh we could get her all done with just the three of us we needed to it's definitely helpful to have a supportive family oh yes in family is important and the nice thing about racing is is it brings your family together and and it it helps you Bond better keeps you out of trouble all that good stuff uh did you have any good sponsors that helped you at all uh there was some that that followed me through the years U Blackberry store was one that was always there a pretty decent sponsor yeah a supportive sponsor definitely doesn't hurt either um so you quit racing in the mid99s when you were running superstock and you handed the reins over to your son Paul and then he started racing was it probably 94 maybe somewhere around there okay and he currently still races yes the car we see behind you the Sprint car this is what he's doing now along with aods right an aod okay do you enjoy watching him race oh very much so I still stand up in the corner up on a trailer and when he goes and makes those Corners I still lean in those corners and back and forth and I'm just right there just seems like I'm part of that do you enjoy watching him race more than you enjoyed racing yourself or is it hard to make a comparison there today I do but I think if I'd have been younger you know uh it would have been fun to rub Wheels with them mhm so your son Paul has been Racing for nearly 25 years now I believe is there any signs of him wanting to get out of the sport yet uh not yet but we're slowing down we're slowing down you don't hit as many shows as you used to do and stuff like that correct okay uh so you're still involved in racing you go and you watch Paul yes and and you help work on the car and stuff so you're still actively involved in race right I do most of the motor stuff on the aod and uh we have Kevin Castle who has been with us for a long time now he's super guy and then uh wherever I'm needed I work now you you like to watch racing and it doesn't even matter if Paul's racing you travel around to watch races at different places oh yes you're still a pretty heavy race fan y you just got back from humbl Speedway watching the race the king of America down there what what is your opinion of today's racing uh today's racing it's more in the pocketbook out of the pocketbook than it is the experience the knowledge the building your own stuff back in your days you had to trudge through a junkyard and you could you could get things out of you had a scr y nowadays a lot of stuff is over the shelf right so it's more convenient but along with that convenience comes a cost the costs are terrible yes uh where do you see racing going in the future I hope ahead but uh it's getting tough we need to get fans we need to get people interested back into it it's such a family sport that I just can't believe more people aren't doing it okay so if I left you with the last word is there anything you have to say then yeah to anybody come come to the races give give Grand Rapids and he mean another chance give give these guys another chance we got to work together and get this done and hopefully we can kind of get some fans back get some more cars back and keep the sport alive yes that's the tough yeah I I couldn't imagine what it would be like without the tracks open we'd sure you You Don't Know What You Got Till It's Gone correct you know okay all right John well I thank you for taking your time out and sitting down and doing this interview with us I really appreciate it and like I say it's great to see you again and uh sometime this summer I'll see you at the track yep thank you very much thank you John