Jennifer Barrett
Writer
Jennifer is from Adelaide, Australia. She is currently saving up
for a proper driving school course, since all she has ever wanted
to do is race. She is in the process of buying her first home, and
has managed to befriend a bunch of guys who run a Harley shop, knowing
she will be in need of some hardened mechanics around wouldn’t
hurt. She is rebuilding an old Holden just for street racing and
she has great of hopes for a racing future.
Bianca Bickford
Tech
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Daphna Blech
Tech
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Amanda Connolly
Writer
Amanda is from Aurora, Ontario, Canada, where she spent every weekend
since she was a kid at the race track, where her father and uncle
were top late model drivers in Southern, Ontario. Her mom even got
behind the wheel for some powder puff events once in a while. Racing
was what their family loved to do, and they did it together. In
1999 she bought her own thunder car and has raced in the thunder
division for three seasons.
Sharon Constantine
Writer
Sharon, from Victoria, B.C., Canada, has two sons and four grandchildren.
Her youngest son is fixing up his father's old stock car and hopes
to be racing in 2003. Sharon had wanted to race since she was 18,
and finally got her chance 16 years ago. She currently races a mini
stock with the International Mini Stock 4-Cylinders Association.
Her twin goals are to break a track record and to win a season championship.
In addition to her racing, she is a contributing writer for the
Geared For Racing magazine, in Courtenay, B.C.
Betsy Frazier
Press Room Editor
Betsy Frazier provides Web Design, Bookkeeping, and Newsletter support
through her small business, Frazier Business Services, based in
Hood River, Oregon, U.S.A. She is an avid windsurfer, dirt-biker,
skier, and loves the outdoors. Betsy has previously autocrossed
her 1976 911S Porsche. She frequently placed first in the PCA NW
Region and won one international event in Canada, defeating all
women and men in class. Betsy is excited to be able to support women
in racing by maintaining the Thunder Valley Racing Press Box.
Christine Moy Harmon
Tech
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Tamara Hull
Writer
Tammi lives near San Francisco, U.S.A. and started drag racing in
high school at the local race track, Sears Point (with a fake ID
because her mother wouldn't let her get her driver's license for
fear of what she might do). Later, she started doing driving schools,
autocrossing, rallying, etc. She is very involved in the BMW club
and became involved in SCCA as crew because she couldn't afford
to race until the BMW club started a racing series. A car accident
(drunk driver ran a red light) delayed her start for two years but
she’s been doing as much racing as she can afford ever since.
She has been writing articles and editing car related newsletters
for many years.
Katie Kelly
Writer
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Camille Keys
Writer
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Tom Moore
Public Relations Consultant
Tom Moore is the founder and president of Darkhorse Communications,
founded in 1998 as an effort to provide PR services to smaller race
teams and drivers. Since, clients have grown to include race series
and manufacturers. Darkhorse services have also increased to include
driver consultation. Currently, Tom has several clients both in
auto racing and outside of the sport. In addition to Thunder Valley,
Blueprint Racing Enterprises, LLC in the Indy Racing Northern Light
Series with driver Jimmy Kite uses the services of Darkhorse Communications.
Driver, Terri Hundertmark, who is currently competing in the Women’s
Global GT Series, is a Darkhorse client as well. Finish Line Racing
Art, an art company that specializes in the creation and sale of
one-of-a-kind pieces of art from racing and automotive parts is
also represented by the Georgia media relations firm. Other recent
clients have included Cigarette Racing Team, Inc., manufacturers
of high-end, off-shore powerboats for racing and customer use and
the American Le Mans Series.
Lee Parent
Writer
Lee, from Regina, SK Canada, was 19 when her future husband taught
her to drag race his 1955 Chevy. Since then, they've had about 160
cars between the two of them and in 1990 he bought her a yellow
1981 Corvette coupe for her fortieth birthday. In 1995 they joined
the local Corvette Club. After about a year, she was hooked and
was First in her Class for Western Canada in 1999. She has been
published in Vette Vues and Shark Quarterly, had a story included
in an anthology produced by MidAmerica Designs, and is a regular
contributor to a couple of national Corvetting newsletters.
Rhonda Rogers
Writer
Rhonda is a mother of two teenage boys's in Kannapolis, NC, U.S.A.
She currently homeschools her youngest son and, when he goes back
to school next year, she will fulfill her dream to race car's. She
currently works nights as a bus driver.
Karen Salvaggio
Featured Racer Editor
Karen has had a passion for racing since her youth. She loves her
day job as principal of an elementary school in Southern California,
U.S.A., but she lives to race. Her racing career began in the early
1980's, while she was in the U.S. Air Force. She had spent nine
years as an aircraft mechanic, working on B-52's and KC-135's in
the US, in the Philippines, and in Japan. A friend at Castle Air
Force Base in Central California offered to let her drive his stock
car at a local 1/4-mile dirt track. It took about 10 seconds for
her to get hooked. By the next Saturday night, she had her own car
and has been racing ever since. She now races Corvettes. In 2000,
she raced with the Women's Global GT Series, and hopes to rejoin
the ALMS, NASCAR, or SCCA road racing ranks in the near future.
Christy Sampson
Feature Story Editor
Director of Public Relations
Christy lives in beautiful Vancouver, BC Canada, and has been a
race fan as long as she can remember, watching F1 races with my
father as a child. When she realized that few women were participating
in the events, and not many behind the scenes, she started to investigate.
Her research turned into articles about women in racing, to becoming
the co-host of Fast Track Weekly, a motorsports radio show, and
to contributing to Raceline, a national Canadian radio show. She
would eventually like to see how she would fare on the track.
T.W. Theodore
Editor
T.W. is a thirty year veteran of marketing, fund-raising, and not
for profit management and currently heads Thunder Valley Associates,
a firm specializing in strategic planning, organizational development,
and fund raising consultation for mid-size not for profit organizations.
T.W. has created, built and directed innovative arts groups, consulted
in fund raising, headed a major development and marketing department,
and managed a broad range of media projects. He founded and simultaneously
directed two arts organizations in the 1970's and 1980's. For five
years in the 1980's, T.W. worked with a nationally known fund raising
firm on major capital campaigns across the Midwest. In 1988, he
joined Chicago's public television station, first as its Director
of Development and later as Vice President for Marketing and Development.
While there, T.W. was responsible for the creation and funding of
major national broadcast productions.
Jamie Thomas
Message Board Moderator
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Laurel Viera
Feature Story Editor
Laurel lives in south central Minnesota, U.S.A., and has three kids.
She has worked in newspaper and television and has spent 20 years
working in the food service industry either part time or full time.
Her family has been racing since the 1960’s. In 1991 she began
racing dirt oval track enduros in
Minnesota and Iowa, then moved on to hobby stock, stock car and,
in 2001, some oval track asphalt.
Kerry Watson
Executive Producer
Kerry's company, Pithy Productions, developed the web strategy for
the Thunder Valley Racing site. She designed a site that is lively
and fresh and easy to use, and then managed the volunteers who carried
out the plan and filled in for volunteers who came and went along
the way. A certified track junkie with her own Porsche 944 track
car, Kerry is a high performance driving instructor with local clubs
including several regions of the Porsche Club of America (PCA),
National Auto Sport Association (NASA), and a private club, the
Driver's Edge. She resides in Central Texas.
Juliana Williamson-Page
Writer
Juliana is an ardent race fan, especially of open-wheel road racing.
Her boyfriend (now husband) turned her on to F1 and Indy Cars and
they attended their first CART race together at Laguna Seca in 1995.
In 1996, her boyfriend arranged for driver Robby Gordon to offer
his marriage proposal to her in front of about 150 fans at the Grand
Prix of Long Beach. They returned to Laguna Seca for their honeymoon
and vowed to someday move closer to the track, which they did in
1998. They live in Monterey, California, U.S.A., now, where she
works as an administrative assistant for the Public Defender's Office.
Susan Zoch
Race Report Editor
Susan is from Belton, Texas, is married and has a son. She got started
in motorsports in the 1970's. At her first drivers school, she was
the only woman. Her instructor told her he didn't believe women
should be on the track, but, as the day progressed, she changed
his mind and received high marks on her performance. She began autocrossing
and then moved on to race a GT1 Mustang with SCCA. She currently
helps run the RSM Motorsports race team in Texas and is an officer
in a local Corvette Club. She still participates in autocrossing,
car shows, and racing.
