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50-Plus Miles Per Hour Writer // Janelle Morrison • Photography // Submitted
Are you typically more reserved at work but when 5 p.m. strikes, you’re ready to put the pedal to the metal and live your best life? Perhaps you should try kart racing! Now before you shake your head “no” and flip the page, let us introduce you to Carmel residents James “Jim” Enney and his wife, Erin Rake.
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y day, Enney is a CPA, CFO at Central Indiana Hardware and Rake is a dentist at My Dental Care in Fishers, but after hours they are team Dancing Dragon Racing. They are also parents to three adult children.
How Their Love for Kart Racing Got Started “We started thinking about reliving our youth and doing the things we wanted to do when we were younger but didn’t do, and this was one of the topics,” Enney shared. “We both wanted to be race car
drivers when we were kids but never had the opportunity, and we thought why not [be race car drivers] at this age? Neither of us had any expertise in terms of a mechanical side or had even worked on our own cars per se, but we decided that karting might be a good option.” The duo went out to New Castle Motorsports Park (NCMP) to check out the kart-racing scene, and they fell in love with it. NCMP is their home base and where they have a year-round garage for their karts. “We both looked at it and said this was something we can do and acknowledged
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