Age:  47 
CREW:  Heath Farmer, Kenny Norwood
CAR # 33F

CAREER STATS
WINS:  53
Top 5’s: 150+
Special Thanks to His Sponsor’s: 

• United Concrete
• James Fields, Trussville, AL
• State Farm Ins.
• Richard Wade, Springville, AL
• Coefield’s Racing Starters, Jeff Coefield, Rainbow City, AL 
  

CAREER HIGHLIGHT:  In 2000, Don won a “Last Chance Feature” at Bristol Motor Speedway. (It marked the first time that dirt was hauled in to cover the asphalt racing surface at Bristol.)

Occupation:   Owner of F&F Construction and Trucking
Don Farmer started his auto racing career twenty years ago.  In 1988 he built his very first racecar, a 4 cylinder pony car.  His very first race was at Hanceville Speedway in Hanceville, Alabama.  Even before he started racing Don admitted, “I lived and breathed racing.”  Prior to racing himself, Don would spend every Friday and Saturday night helping Randy Peoples and his race team.  “I learned so much just watching the Late Model Drivers and the  other drivers in other classes how they would drive into the corners, watching what their cars were doing.”  Don eventually informed Randy that he was about to build himself his own car. 

Don found a 1978 or ’79 Mercury Capri and the rest is history so-to-speak.  “I remember getting that car ready for my first race, it wasn’t lettered or anything.  I also remember my father coming into the shop and expressing his feelings about not wanting me to build the racecar.  That night after the first race we came back into the shop and got the car lettered and when dad seen his name on my car he  was 100% behind me in racing.”

Don lost his father, Cecil Farmer, three years ago.  “The last three years have been hard since dad has past.  It just not the same not seeing him at the race track.”  Before the loss of his father Don always had his dad’s name on the car in some fashion.  Since the loss, Don has added “In Memory Cecil Farmer” and it is always on the left side of the car.  “It is kind of like my dad is right there with me.”

Over the 20 years in which Don has been racing, he has made several friends through the sport.  “The friends I have made in this sport I hold very dear to me, but no racing relationship means more to me than the one I have with Carlton Freeman”  Don said. 
“If there was anyone out there I want to compete with the most it is Carlton, and if I can’t win then he is the guy I would want to win.”  The two have race for several years together and Don has actually lost a championship to Carlton by one point.  “That was a grudge match year between the two of us, but as hard as we raced each other, the one thing I am proud of is that are friendship has never been affected by anything that has happened on the track between the two of us.”

Don’s son, Heath Farmer, is the crew chief of his Super Late Model Masterbuilt Pontiac and GRT Crate Late Model Pontiac.  “Dad and I get along so well, our relationship I think is the key to our success.  Believe me if I think that he could have done some better or different out on the track I am not afraid to tell him.” 

The Don Farmer has never let racing get in the way of family.  “I never let my family go without because of my racing.” Don said.  “If I ever needed something and the funds weren’t there I just had to save and wait, my family has always come first before racing.”

The Farmer’s are definitely a racing family, 12-year-old Chassidy Farmer is currently racing go-karts.  Chassidy knew she wanted to race after watching a movie about sisters who were drag racers.  “I turned to Poppy (Don) and said I want to race.”  Even before she was racing she was an accomplished moto-cross rider.  Miss Chassidy is looking forward to racing at GVS’s new go-kart track that opens this spring.

Don is very excited about all the changes at GVS and can’t wait for the season to start.  “I am so confident in the changes and management that I am now making GVS my home track.”

Catch Don Farmer, in the F33 car, in action starting March 15th at Green Valley Speedway.

Don would like to thank all the fans who come to GVS for their support, of not only him, but of all the drivers and the sport of dirt track racing.

Webb Dillard, Multi-media Director GVS

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