Bio time. My name is Andy Mahood and I’m a former semi-professional race car driver (I say “semi-pro” because, even though I competed in a number of professional racing series, I still needed to hold down a regular job in order to subsidize whatever the sponsorship and prize money didn’t cover). I raced in Formula Vee, Formula Ford, Formula Atlantic and Player's/GM Motorsport Series events throughout the late 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s before ultimately retiring from the sport in 1993. I won three Formula Ford Championships (in 1980, 1981 & 1984) and was twice nominated by Autosport Canada (the country’s leading motorsports periodical of the time ) as one of Canada’s top ten F1/IndyCar prospects.

I'm now an on-again off-again writer and I've contributed reviews, previews, articles, and columns to the publications listed on the "Published Articles/Columns" page since 1996. I live in West Kelowna British Columbia with my lovely wife Debbie and our two dogs Dexter and Lexi.

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Opening two laps around Westwood in a Player's/GM race - 1989