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Harvard University, with its highly touted diverse student body, has within its current population two men bitten by the racing bug and actively pursuing careers in the sport. Gordon Medenica '73, a first-year student at the Business School, and David Aronson '79 are manager and assistant manager, respectively, of the Gordon Medenica Motor Racing team. Last season, the Medenica team, piloted by driver Herne, won the New England regional Formula Ford road racing championship...
...Aronson, a Social Studies concentrator and a talented graphic designer, says his fascination with cars dates back to early childhood. In 1975 he worked on Roger Penske's Formula 1 (the big time of inchildhood. In 1975 he worked as a mechanic on Roger Penske's Formula One (the big name of international road racing) team, staying on until driver Mark Donahue died in a practice run crash late in the season. During his freshman year at Harvard he met Medenica on the street in Cambridge, and eventually the team was formed...
...motor racing. "It's one thing to be into S&M here, but motor racing is something entirely beyond their ken," Aronson says. "Part of that is due to their misconceptions about racing--they think it's just going round and round a track." As Herne jokes, "Harvard students automatically put racers on the greaser level...
...United States, road racing types are a lot more liberal," Medenica says. "I don't try to justify it anymore, because I know it satisfies me." Aronson admits to a "constant struggle" between his politics and his racing involvement, but for now he says his commitment to the sport remains strong...
Sure, Cleary gave me the same story that he gave Mike Savit, Tom Aronson, and Bill Stedman before...