Every good racing team starts with a solid plan. Ours started with a mid-life crisis.
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Lou always wanted to get into motorsports, but between work, life, and general adulting, the closest he got for most of his 30s was the occasional go-kart at an indoor track. Then his early 40s happened — the kind of stretch that makes a person do something drastic, like buy a race car.
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Lizzy cut her teeth racing ATVs in IATVHSS for a couple of seasons, starting in 2024, before deciding "how hard can it be?" and stepping up to a UTV of her own in 2026. Turns out: pretty hard, actually — but she's doing it anyway. She runs her own build in the Women's class and still copilots for Lou whenever she's not busy embarrassing him in a separate car.
Lou always wanted to get into motorsports, but between work, life, and general adulting, the closest he got for most of his 30s was the occasional go-kart at an indoor track. Then his early 40s happened — the kind of stretch that makes a person do something drastic, like buy a race car.
At 44, he decided the family's new Polaris SxS wasn't just for trail rides anymore, and Crisis Forty-Four Racing was born: a one-man operation with a name that pretty much explained itself.
The 4-seat RZR Pro XP looked absurd on a starting line next to actual purpose-built race cars, and nobody took the new guy seriously. That lasted until race three, when he found the podium and the car earned a nickname that stuck — “The Limo.”
These days it's a family operation. Lou's daughter Lizzy raced ATVs in IATVHSS for a couple of seasons starting in 2024 before deciding "how hard can it be?" and stepping up to a UTV of her own in 2026. Turns out: pretty hard, actually — but she's doing it anyway, running the Women's class in her own build while Lou keeps grinding away in Amateur. They still ride copilot for each other whenever they're not busy embarrassing themselves in separate cars.
Lou's wife Lisa is at every race — cheering them on, worrying about them in the way only a racing spouse can, and being a genuinely good sport about a hobby that isn't exactly her first choice of weekend activity. She's warmed up to the friendships that come with it, which is its own kind of win.
Son Riley still races his own ATV in IATVHSS — the same series where he and Lizzy both got their start — so the family's motorsports calendar stays busy.
Fair warning: this team breaks down more than it wins. We're working on it.