Name: Chris Frost
Year / Make / Model Car: 1980 Toyota Corolla
Number:64
Class: Mini Mod
Years Racing: 17
Job: Ice Man, sell and service ice machines
1. How did you get into racing?
CF: My dad and his friend owned a street stock car and my uncle built the motor, well their driver decided he wanted to chicken fight instead of race. so they put me in the car, i was hooked.
2. What would you be doing if you were not driving a race car?
CF: Probably in jail for something stupid, racing is my drug of choice.
3. People who have inspired you the most while you have raced?
CF: My Uncle above all others, he taught me how to compete at a high level. Also doubters, tell me i cant and i will show you i can.
4. What is the biggest obstacle you are facing in your quest to succeed in racing?
CF: Laziness to be successful you have to out work your competitor. Its a grind, I have done it.
5. What driver are you a fan of?
CF: Scott Bloomquist, builds his own winning cars and dominates.
6. Out of all the race cars you have driven, which one was your favorite and why?
CF: Mini Mod, no horsepower to speak of requiring the discipline to keep the momentum up. That’s why i returned in 2014 to mini mod.
7. Pick one : CD player, I pod, 8-Track or Record player, and who do you listen to?
CF: Ipod, i like new gadgets. Bluegrass music, the original speed music
8. What have you been doing during the off season?
CF: Eating, no seriously its all i have done. I have been lazy, time to get to turning wrenches.
9. Is there any other type of race car that you’d like to drive that you haven’t yet?
CF: SUPER Late Model i just want to feel the power and speed.
10. Your best and worst moment in racing?
CF: Best Moment: winning double features at MMS years ago i set quick time, won the first race going away, started the rear in the second race and had the lead on lap two. Worst: Being turned into the wall at BIR and flipping down the back straight, lost a great car.
11. Any local legends that you admired while coming up in Short Track Racing?
CF: Johnny Day, growing up watching him race cars with lesser equipment and win was really cool.
12. What motivates you to be the best in your racing division?
CF: The drive to be first, does not matter if we are playing marbles or racing cars i want to win.
Second sucks!
13. Favorite smell at the track : race gas or burning rubber?
CF: Race gas, hearing a big engine ping and smelling it gives me chills.
14. What’s the funniest thing you have ever seen on the race track?
CF: A driver jumping up and down on another drivers hood, they were brother in laws too.
15. What local driver do you have the most respect for and why?
CF: Chase Spradlin, always drives clean and never cry’s about others cars.
16. Do you have another sport you enjoy to watch or participate in?
CF: Football and Baseball to watch, I like to play Softball.
17. What’s more important … racing for points or racing for the win?
CF: The win, points take the fun out of racing by requiring you to be there every race.
18. Your favorite track and why?
CF: MMS now that Huntsville is closed. I like the clean modern aspects of the place and the SPEED.
19. Which describes you best : calculating driver or kamikaze driver?
CF: Kamikaze, bull in a china shop
20. Last Lap, you’re in a side by side dash for the win… who would you want to beat and why?
CF: Chase Spradlin, I have never just beat him, we didn’t race much against each other. When he first started I was established already and by the time he honed his skills i had moved on. Now I am back and i want to beat him.
I would like to thank Commercial Ice, SCS campus store, The Thomason Take, My Crewchief and BOSS Hunter Gurley, his Mom, My Aint Janice, My Dad, Chris Thomason, Jesika Thomason.
You can find me on:
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/chrisfrost64
Thanks Chris, for providing us with this information, and if anyone else would like to be featured here please contact me at ShortTrackTalk@gmail.com