About QMRacingInfo
About QMRacingInfo.com
QMRacingInfo.com was started in 2018 as a personal project of Bill Messmer intended to be a one stop shop for finding out information about quarter midget racing and preserving some continuity among quarter midget clubs. It started with the intent of making it easier to find quarter midget clubs and their racing schedules.
About Bill
Hello! My name is Bill Messmer. I'm a software engineer who has worked in the industry for the last 20+ years on low level software. Throughout my career, I've worked on device drivers, operating systems, runtimes, API libraries, compilers, and debuggers.
In the Spring of 2010, my wife saw an e-mail from someone where we both worked regarding a community event for kids 5-16: a quarter midget ride day at the WQMA club in Monroe, WA. Neither my wife nor I had ever heard of quarter midget racing. But every time we had gone to an amusement park, my son -- who was 5 years old at the time -- wanted to do rides involving cars. We thought that taking him to ride day and letting him try out a quarter midget would simply be a fun afternoon activity. So, on May 8th, 2010, we drove out to the WQMA club in Monroe, WA. In those days, the WQMA club did only one ride day per year. It was an enormous event where hundreds of kids would show up and there were tons of other activities while the kids waited for their turn to go out on the track. So, we signed the waivers, got our number -- 139 if I remember correctly --, and waited. It was a few hours of doing other activities -- looking at other race cars, playing in the bouncy house, hanging out on the club playground, etc... -- before he got his turn. He got his 10 laps and came off the track. The first thing he said (super excited, I might add) was, "Can I go again!?"
Since it was a several hour wait, we told him that, unfortunately, he would not be able to drive again. So we went home. After that day, the nagging was eternal. "Can we race quarter midgets!?" "Can you buy me a quarter midget!?" So we decided to go out to the club again on a regular race day and just see how that might work.
