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Vol. 2 No. 5
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Racing Fever Still Catchy in Millis BY J.D. O’GARA
Young Driver Qualifies for Championship F1 Races
Ryan Locke, entering sixth grade at Millis Middle School next year, is your typical Millis 10-year-old, with one exception. He still likes to play with cars, and he likes to go fast. For three years, Locke has been driving a racecar.
“Not at all,” laughs Sharon. “My husband and I were Red Sox and Pats fans. Racing wasn’t anything we knew about,”
The Medway Fire Department boasts a new state-of-the-art piece of training equipment -- a Live Fire Mobile Multi-Simulator, purchased with federal grant funding. The multi-purpose unit, which is designed to simulate a comprehensive list of situations a firefighter might encounter was designed by Firefighter Charles Waldron, who not only closely worked with the Illinois manufacturer for about a year, but who also garnered the grant money which made the purchase possible. 10-year-old Ryan Locke, of Millis, took his driving skills to the F1 Junior Race Team Championship for the second year in late June.
she says. Ryan learned about F1 racing from a friend, who raced at F1 Boston, in Braintree. “My friend used to race there,” says Ryan. “Then I did the camp
just to see how it is. It turns out it was really fun,” he says. “When I first started, I was really scared, at the camp and the league, but every summer I just got better and better at it, and I just really liked it.”
Sharon says that her family has been able to learn more about racing from a friend, who got them in to see a NASCAR race in Loudon, New Hampshire.
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Ryan races small versions of F1 cars, motorized, open wheel karts, at F1 Boston as a member of the F1 Junior Race Team, and he’s pretty darn good. In fact, this year, he qualified first for the championship (his second one), where he competed against other junior drivers from Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, held on June 18. In the end, Ryan placed fourth in overall speed, but received a second place trophy for driver’s points. It’s not like NASCAR is in his blood. Ryan’s parents, Sharon and Jimmy, who were both top notch swimmers when they were younger, never imagined they’d be sitting in the stands to cheer on their son the racecar driver.
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