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Logically enough, each member of the Medenica team got involved in motor racing through a childhood fascination with automobiles. "I was just always into cars," Medenica says. "At 12, I was into slot cars. When I got my license, I drove fast...it's a long continuum that just kept building." "It's basically the same for me as for Gordon, although I never thought of racing until my brother took me to a race at Watkins Glen, when I figured it was something I wanted to do," Herne says...
...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...
...think the response David gets from students is like what I got five years ago," Medenica says. "It was just generally unacceptable." Still, there was a very small group of us into cars. Five years later I'm back at Harvard and I find a lot more positive response. I think it's a combination of the Business School and it being five years later...
...competition at any level is not just plain fun for these men. Racing requires money, a fact of life that leads to conflicts between their personal politics and the world of racing. "It's a frightening sport. You've got to do everything big money demands to get it," Medenica explains. "A lot of people who are big in racing are big-time fascists. Even in Europe, road-racing itsn't necessarily considered right-on. There's a lot of politics in racing, and for the most part, I don't agree with a lot of the people involved...
...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...