CHRISTIAN RACING - Key Persons
My name is Brian Barkley and I will be 46 in November. I was born and raised in Carlisle Pennsylvania. I have an older sister and younger brother. My daddy died when I was 10. I have an awesome Mom who raised us three kids by herself.
After graduating high school in June 1986, my Mom, brother, and I spent 2 weeks with 32 others in Hawaii on a Girl Scout trip. Yes, I said Girl Scout. lol. While on the trip I met this beautiful girl, Stacey. Three years later we were married. This year we celebrated our 25th Anniversary. We have 2 girls. Rachael 18 who is a freshman at college, and Rebecca 16 who is a junior in High School.
In 1990 Stacey and I moved to Maryland where I started my career as a copier technician with Lanier. Then in January of 2006 we felt the Lord moving us to beautiful east Tennessee to a town called Mount Carmel. It feels like I lived here my whole life. I was able to transfer, and almost 24 years later I am still with the same company (now called Ricoh). I attend Higher Ground Baptist Church in Kingsport TN, where I volunteer with the youth and the sound ministry.
My racing career started in 1999 with Nascar 99. I then began racing Nascar 3 and then Nascar 2003. A friend and I raced on a LAN almost every Saturday for about a year. One Saturday he would bring his computer to my house and the next weekend I would go to his house. We raced against the AI. He was about to move and that is what got me interested in online racing. So I did a search one day and found Christian Racing and have been here ever since. My friend never did move, but I did. Even though I left my "real" friends behind, my online friends were there just as before. What a blessing that was. You guys really helped me through that transition. I have been racing here at Christian Racing since around 2003. Christian Racing is the first and only league I've raced in. That was with Nascar 2003. Then we moved onto ARCA Sim Racing and Rfactor with SCE mod and now iRacing
Hi, my name is Bruce Hawkins, I have been hanging around CR since October 2004! I am 46 years old and live in Joliet Illinois. I have been blessed with a wonderful wife Cathy, Cathy and I are both on our 2nd marriage, between us we have 2 children, Trish 26 and Tom 16. Cathy and I where married in November of 1997. We attend St. John Lutheran Church in Joliet IL.
I grew up in a small town about 20 miles south of Chicago. After graduating High School I attended the local Junior college and took several programming classes while working full time for the local school district in the maintenance department. I joined the local fire department as a volunteer and put in 15 years there during which I earned my Fire Fighter III Certification along with my EMT, First Responder(Haz Mat) and Driver Pump Operator certifications. I am now a computer programmer working for Freedom Graphic Systems(fgs.com). I have been with Freedom since 1989 and have worked my way through the programming department and I am now Senior Programmer(in other words OLD)! Unfortunately work is the one thing that keeps me away from online racing. I tend to have to work long hours and miss a lot of races due to that.
Beside online racing I enjoy golfing, music, Nascar, football and basketball (watching, too old to play). I had no idea when I joined CR what I had ahead of me! I have made so many friends here I am truly amazed!!! This is by far, in my opinion the best racing league around, not to mention my favorite part, Team Speak and the fellowship during the races!
Each week I really look forward to get on the TS and talking to all of you and listening in to the needling that sometimes goes on. I have been really blessed to have found this place and to have been welcomed in by all of you.