From: "Doug Finley" <dfinley@wco.com>

I'm 47, single, live at the NE corner of San Francisco Bay. Grew up in a suburb of Los Angeles at the height of Kar Kulture, but instead of being into street hot rods like all the other boys, I became the only F1 fan I knew at age 11 thru Henry Manney's reports in Road & Track. 1st race I saw was the Times GP at Riverside in '62, Penske winning in his F1 Cooper with fenders & a US V8. Have seen lotsa big-time road races since, including the 1st Canadian GP in '67, F1 vs F5000 like Bob, every F1 race at Long Beach ('76-'82), & the 1st GPs in Vegas & Phoenix. These days, I try to catch every yr the CART race & the biggest motorcycle (World Superbikes this season) or GT race at Laguna Seca, plus at Sears Pt NASCAR on Saturday & at least one sports-car event. I'm a good fast driver--nobody goes faster than me on a winding road, even if it's 944 Turbo vs Corolla--but have never done organized racing.

For now I'm doing tech support for Web and e-mail servers for StarNine, a semi-independent Mac Net software company in Berkeley-- it sells the most popular Web server for Macs, WebSTAR. Hope to get into Net tech support on Unix or Windoze soon, before the Mac software market dies completely. Other hobbies besides computers include reading (largely science fact & science fiction), cycling, & photography. In my family, my father had 4 planes starting with a Waco biplane in the '20s, an uncle was a AAF mechanic in WW2, a cousin has a copter mechanic, & another cousin died as an Edwards test pilot, so I have aviation in the blood but only count as a fan.

Doug Finley
dfinley@wco.com