From watching on television to driving carts and open wheel racers, a kid grows up to drive a Porsche 911 GT3.
The video above comes to us from Brad Day Productions, but it looks like something that could have been produced by the folks at Porsche. The video follows along with a young boy who grows up loving race cars, driving smaller cars and eventually ending up in a Porsche 911 GT3. Along the way, there are hardships that come with a life in motorsports, but in the end, the experience is worth the sacrifices.
The Young Boy
The short video begins with dark skies and hard rain over a race track, with a field of Porsche 911 GT3 race cars lined up and ready to run. As the drivers prepare for the race, the camera heads inside car #911, where the driver daydreams about key moments in his life that led up to this point.
The young boy starts off racing his bicycle down an empty street to a restoration shop that has a great many Ford products. We see a classic Cougar in one of the bays and an original GT500 is parked in the lot, but the young boy runs to a rough, round roadster sitting out back. It kind of looks like a 356 and the boy enjoys pretending to drive it, cutting the wheel hard back and forth as he slaloms through the imaginary turns.
Next, the boy watches Porsche 911 race cars on television before heading to a nearby track to see the car run in person. As he watches the classic 911, the footage transitions to the young boy driving a cart around a road course.
The Young Man
After spending time in the cart ranks, the young man got into open wheel racing and his career intensified. He meets a girl and falls in love, but she appears to leave him when things in the racing world aren’t going well. However, he pushes through the crashes and the personal issues to rise to the ranks of a GT3 racer in a Porsche 911.
It is a remarkable piece for being so short, detailing the lift that many racers live before making it back in the racing world.
"Before I was old enough to walk, my dad was taking me to various types of racing events, from local drag racing to the Daytona 500," says Patrick Rall, a lifetime automotive expert, diehard Dodge fan, and respected auto journalist for over 10 years. "He owned a repair shop and had a variety of performance cars when I was young, but by the time I was 16, he was ready to build me my first drag car – a 1983 Dodge Mirada that ran low 12s. I spent 10 years traveling around the country, racing with my dad by my side. While we live in different areas of the country, my dad still drag races at 80 years old in the car that he built when I was 16 while I race other vehicles, including my 2017 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and my 1972 Dodge Demon 340.
"Although I went to college for accounting, my time in my dad’s shop growing up allowed me the knowledge to spend time working as a mechanic before getting my accounting degree, at which point I worked in the office of a dealership group. While I was working in the accounting world, I continued racing and taking pictures of cars at the track. Over time, I began showing off those pictures online and that led to my writing.
"Ten years ago, I left the accounting world to become a full-time automotive writer and I am living proof that if you love what you do, you will never “work” a day in your life," adds Rall, who has clocked in time as an auto mechanic, longtime drag racer and now automotive journalist who contributes to nearly a dozen popular auto websites dedicated to fellow enthusiasts.
"I love covering the automotive industry and everything involved with the job. I was fortunate to turn my love of the automotive world into a hobby that led to an exciting career, with my past of working as a mechanic and as an accountant in the automotive world provides me with a unique perspective of the industry.
"My experience drag racing for more than 20 years coupled with a newfound interest in road racing over the past decade allows me to push performance cars to their limit, while my role as a horse stable manager gives me vast experience towing and hauling with all of the newest trucks on the market today.
