[IMG]://:0/assets/autos_db/thumbnails/WR_Magazine_2_1_jpg_677x1000_q100.jpg[/IMG]Thinking back on my life, it was the shape of that first Dinky toy Jaguar D-type; my dad taking me to that race when I was 5-years-old; seeing that yellow Lotus Europa go around a 90-degree intersection corner as if was a slot car; getting and reading that stack of mid-sixties Road & Track magazines a friend’s older brother gave me; that 1/20th-scale Ford GT40 model I got for Christmas; going to the local rental go-kart track a couple of times each year… Yes, my environment provided much fuel for whatever fire my genes started.