Classic BMW Motorsports is headed to Sebring Florida to start the 2012 season. Sebring is 1,172 miles from home but has long been a sought after venue for a racing victory. Tom Bull, crew chief for the team will miss this trip as he continues another wave of chemotherapy in Dallas and is not cleared by Doctors to travel. Tom was diagnosed with cancer a year ago and has fought hard enduring 8 months of chemo during 2011. Tom had been given the green light late in 2011 as the doctors determined that the cancer had been controlled. They changed medication to a maintenance drug and Tom's life returned back to normal. But Tom's reprieve was short lived as the cancer began to grow at a very high rate. He has been confronting the cancer with weekly visits to the hospital and has been told by his doctors that travel is impossible until further notice. For now, Tom will be guiding the team either from a hospital bed or from the iphone in his house. His passion for racing is enormous and so is his will to live. His attitude is always upbeat and positive, even while his face is sullen, broken out or tired and even though his hair is beginning to fall from his baseball cap covered head. These racing weekend allow him the opportunity to mentally leave the chemotherapy and join the race team, if only digitally.
Toby Grahovec, two time SCCA National Champion will pilot the BMW Z4's this year and will be featured in the first race of the season as he matches skills with the new SCCA Champion, Michael Scornavacchi. The quest this season is to win and win often. We hope to venture to many of the great tracks in America and bring home trophies, and if we don't we plan to make some friends along the way.
Say hello to the crew if you see them in Florida this weekend! And send your thoughts and prayers to Tom Bull, we all hope to see him at a racetrack soon.
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