"My dad told me if 1 could get my grades up he'd let me start racing this season." Those were the words of a very young Brady Demeree, who spoke to me here recently, about how his incredible season got under way this past year. This young competitor had been running a Go-Kart in the very early part of the 2004 season, and his dad got him in a Micro Midget, and the feature wins started rolling in almost immediately. Readers this young competitor is just ten years old, and has just raced up his first major open wheel points title at JRP. Running a 250cc, plus a restricted 600cc, this very young and very talented driver wound up taking home a whopping twenty-two feature wins over this past season, and his entire family are hoping that this may just be the start of things to come.

1 managed to talk to this young lad recently, as well as his dad Brad Demeree, just to find out how everything got started this past season, and the elder Mr. Demeree said, "Well, we actually did this on a whim. I managed to sell my business earlier this year. I talked a few things over with my wife Teresa, and we decided to use part of the money to let my son, Brady race on. He had been running a Go-Kart in the very beginning of this season, and he had his grades up real well. So, I talked to him about some things, and I decided to buy him a 600cc restricted car. A Micro Midget. I wanted him to have some good dirt experience. I figured that if nothing else, his experience in the car would help him on his sliding and things like that with the Kart. At the same time, this other gentlemen had another 600cc midget. I thought, "Well, we got JRP, so I'll just pick up both cars and run one on asphalt and the other on dirt." After I bought them, I decided to go up to Will Rogers up in Claremore, and watch those these 600's run. I watched those things out there, and man they were fast. So, I thought maybe I had better look at the 250cc for Brady. It just so happened; a buddy of mine (Paul Beyers) had one for sale for about $2000.1 bought it, and he helped me set it up. I figured it would be food for him to learn in it. So, we put him in it, and he wound up winning in it his third time out. I think he finished second on his first try. He wound up winning twelve features there at Will Rogers with eight being in a row. He turned out to be a natural.