Devoted Racing Fan Becomes IndyCar Truck Driver
vBy Cora Van Olson
Greg Moser has always been a
car racing fan, going to the track
regularly with his parents as a
boy, and later in life with his own
family. Recently his skills and his
hobby converged with being in
the right place at the right time,
landing Greg in what is for him a
true dream job: working as a truck
driver for IndyCar.
Greg’s love of car racing began
when he was young.
“Greg and his brother would
play Indy with their Hot Wheels
cars on their mother’s corded oval
rug,” said Greg’s wife Lynn Moser,
who is also a car racing fan. “That
was their racetrack and they would
argue over who got to be Mario
Andretti.”
“My brother would actually
take pencil and paper and make a
spreadsheet and we’d have races,
especially around the month of
May, the month of May is Indy 500,
and we’d have a points system going for who won each race,” Greg said.
“He’d keep a tally of the points and we would have our own season
championships with our Hot Wheels cars.”
According to Greg, his deep-rooted love of racing started even
before that, during family summer outings every Saturday night at
Miller Speedway in Miller, where he grew up.
“My mom had two brothers that raced, Willie and Chuck Yost, and
then eventually two cousins of mine, Dennis and Terry Yost raced
modified.” Greg said. “We would go to Miller Central Speedway every
Saturday night to see the races and
then on Sunday night we would go
to Huron, the state fair speedway
and watch the races.”
Greg’s uncles raced for
many years and won many
championships, Greg said, but in
1985 Terry Yost, tragically died
following a racing accident.
Greg not only grew up watching
his mother’s brothers race, he had
an uncle on his father’s side who
raced: Leon Moser from Wolsey.
As a youth Greg also did a little bit
of pit-crew work for a neighbor,
Marlon Winter, who also raced.
Aside from racing Matchbox
cars, Greg and his brother also
enjoyed racing go-carts. Each year
they would save their pennies for
the family vacation to Long Beach
in Washington State, where there
was a go-cart track that charged 50
cents a ride.
“So once the small grains and
the hay were done and before
the silage cutting started for the
winter, we would make a trip out to the west coast,” said Greg.
One wet, misty Pacific Coast evening, Greg said, he and his brother
found themselves alone at the go-cart track. The owners required at
least three drivers to open the track. That night the weather drove
most people indoors, but Greg and his brother were staying at a motel
a block away and decided to walk over to the go-cart track to see if
anyone showed up.
“It had been a while and we were about ready to go home, when this
big motorhome pulled up.” Greg said. “It was one of those GMC motor
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