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Racing Cars is in the Family!

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Meet Team Mallory! I am so blessed to have a wonderful husband named Chris.  We will be married for 30 years this July and have three beautiful daughters. 😍  We both race in 1/4 mile drag racing events around the US.  He also competes in road racing and autocross.  I don't race in those events because I don't like to use my brakes, just push the pedal to the metal!  The legal way to go fast.  🤣  (See blog "Meet the Race Car Teacher" for more details about racing.)  The next morning after the above pic was taken, I decided to have bangs again.  If I could help kiddos with cutting, surely this task couldn't be so difficult with more advanced fine motor skills.  WRONG!!!!  I cut them way too short.  The good thing about hair- it will grow back!  Seems like I've said that to my husband when the girls were little and they were cutting their own hair.  Hmmm Cindy is our oldest daughter and she studied biochemistry in college.  She now uses those sci
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Meet "The Race Car Teacher"

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My name is Michelle Mallory.  I am an elementary educator and YES I really do race cars! Click this link to see me race at Englishtown, NJ.  (I'm in the blue Caprice that wins!) I never had an interest in racing while growing up, but my husband was always into cars.  After he inherited his dad's '96 Impala SS, he started participating in autocross,  road racing, and drag racing.  During this time, we were living in Michigan.  I was  focused on my teaching career and busy with our three daughters.  I would bring them to some of his races, but never dreamed I would eventually race cars with him.   One day, some of the racers said my husband should  let me take the car down the 1/4 mile drag strip during  a "test and tune."  All it took was one time and I was  hooked!  We would take turns racing his car and our  girls would cheer us on.   They probably cheered for me  more than my husband. 😉 Racing created a common interest for us to share
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