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Nothing Mini about youth’s NASCAR dream
Grass Lake High School sophomore Morgen Baird wears his dreams on his cap and boldly brandishes them in the paint scheme of his Carl Edwards-inspired Mini-Cup race car.
The 15-year-old Baird has a dream of one day racing with the big boys in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.
It’s been a wild first season in the Mini-Cup Series at Jackson Speedway for Baird, who expects to finish second in the points at Jackson after finishing eighth in the Great Lakes Supercup Racing series.
In the GLSR, which primarily holds its races at tracks throughout Michigan and Indiana, Baird races against current and former ARCA-licensed drivers, and he even went wheel-to-wheel this season with GLSR points champion Maurice Randall, a former Sprint Cup driver.
It’s all heady stuff for a young athlete who spends a good portion of his week at football practice, where he’s a wide receiver for the Grass Lake junior varsity team. Friday nights, however, are reserved for racing, and that works out this year, as the junior varsity plays its games on Thursdays.
Baird said the decision about next fall, if the varsity football and racing schedules overlap, will be an easy one.
“I have to go racing,” Morgen said.
That’s just fine with Baird’s parents, Dave and Stephanie of Grass Lake.
“I trust him,” said Dave Baird, who is a dynomometer technician at for Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn. “He’s good and wants to go on to something bigger in the sport already.”
Even though he’s not old enough to yet take the family car out on the street, the young Baird hopes to move on to modified stocks in the next year. He’d also like to apply for an ARCA license that would allow him to drive in that series.
For now, it’s the Mini-Cup cars, which are 1â„2 scale Cup cars styled to resemble cars in the Sprint Cup Series. The cars are designed to reach a top speed of nearly 90 mph on the largest go-kart tracks.
The family has spent more than $4,500 on a car and parts for Morgen’s racecar this season.
“We used to have all kinds of toys, but we’ve gotten rid of some things so we can do for our kids,” Dave Baird said.
“It’s his passion.”
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