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Have seen this before, but always a great read. This is so true! If you give your child a quarter midget, they will want to race. You’ll buy them the best car you can find, followed by a suit, helmet, gloves, neck brace and shoes. ... You look for local tracks to race at weekends, where you start to socialize with the quarter midget communityAnd then life as you know it, will end. Before you know it, they want to RACE so you find a CLUB..There will be no more lazy weekends watching tv. You will see more sunrises than you ever thought possible. Every spare minute of your time will be spent hauling campers, caravans and quarter midgets and enduring a crazy addiction to practice for the race. Your house may be a mess, and your car will be dirty. All because you gave your child a quarter midget. Your weekends will be spent freezing or burning to death on a fold up chair. And their weekends will be spent gaining confidence and friends, learning new skills and having fun and getting dirty!!!! You will be there the day he or she makes their first heat win , first top 3, first feature win. And they will make you SO proud. Other parents will congratulate you, but you feel weird saying thank you because it's not you on the track, it’s your child. It's everything that they did, they achieved. And right before your eyes, your little boy/girl will be transformed from the rookie who spun around or was all over the track into an experienced driver that was smooth and could run a good line. When you give your child a quarter midget , you give them more than just something to drive. You give them a sport, a talent, hope and dreams. Friends, a new family, a place to learn about life, room to grow as a person where they can push their limits, and bravery, and courage, and memories. And they will have ALL of these things, simply because you gave your child a quarter midget. Because you gave your child a quarter midget, you too will develop new/lifelong friendships, developed solely from the same passion for the sport. You will have a quarter midget family because you gave your child a quarter midget. Then one day, many years from todaythey will be in their room and a certain trophy will catch their eye. And they will pick it up and realize instantly that when you gave your child a quarter midget, you also gave them a childhood that they would never forget, at this point, you realize that everything you gave up along the way and sacrificed was totally worth it.. All because you gave your child a quarter midget

Winner winner chicken dinner! Wore the Ken Rice Cowboy hat for luck, and sure paid off! Jr. Honda Grand National Champion! #greyjayrice

Great job Damien!! Fast Time and New Track Record in Sr. Honda and Lt. World Formula - Way to go!! #TeamRice #RiceRaceCars

Ken Rice and Pepe!

Prayers to the entire Shelton family, and all of Dick’s many friends. Dick Shelton was an amazing engine builder, but more importantly a good man. He will be missed. Hope that you and Ken have some fun bench racing up there.

Had a great weekend at the #Usac25 Duel in the Desert at Valley Of The Sun Quarter Midget Association! Pulled off a combined 5 wins for the weekend, along with 4 additional podiums! Looking forward to a great season, and Congrats to William Davis, Tanner Stark, and Greyson Rice on an awesome job all weekend. Thank you very much to everyone at the VSQMA club for a great show, and See you in Tucson for the next leg!

Always fun when a kid gets their very first W! Nice job bud!

And today, Happy 66th bday to Dennis Rice!

Happy 86th Birthday to Mrs. Rice!!

Really proud to present the 2019 Ken Rice Champions Award to Chase Spicola! Chase is a great kid and a great driver, and we’re so honored to have someone like him represent the award. There were a lot of fantastic candidates this year and we are so happy that people have had such a supportive and positive reaction to how we are trying to keep Ken’s legacy alive. We as the Rice family just want to say a heartfelt thank you to everyone for helping to make this award special. ... And a HUGE thank you to the Good Times club for allowing us to use the Winternationals as a platform to be able to honor Ken and all the kids who are true Champions. See you all next year!

Matt Roberts wins Hvy. World Formula!!!

Matt Roberts wins Heavy Honda!

Greyson Rice wins Jr. Honda!!