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Lots of Drive While David Senkow enjoys teaching accounting, drag racing really gets his motor running
along with his nephew, Gareth. “It’s something that keeps the family together,” he says, noting other family members also come to watch. Senkow has come a long way since
his first race in his ’67 Mustang nearly three decades ago. While he had beginner’s luck and landed in the finals in that race, he struggled to reach the top of the pack again. “It was probably another three years before I won another round, but I learned that there was more to it,” Senkow recalls. Now his team takes everything
from tire spins to the weather into consideration when heading out for a race, and that heavy analysis of numbers and figures takes a page out of his accounting playbook. “I collect lots of data, analyze it,
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T’S NOT JUST THE THRILL of barrel- ling down a track at 150 miles per hour that draws David Senkow, 66,
to drag racing. The sport is truly a family affair. While his interest in racing began
in his teens, it was only in the ’80s, aſter brothers Don and Fred got into the sport, that he decided to get behind
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the wheel. “When I started it was just a street car,” says the accounting professor and acting dean of the faculty of business administration at the University of Regina. “It’s just a thrill to go fast, and it still is.” Decades later he still travels across
Canada and the US with his brothers, but now as Senkow Family Racing
figure out what’s changed, what’s the same,” he adds. “It’s not just getting in the car and pushing down on the gas pedal as hard as you can; a lot of preparation and analysis goes into it.” And with the long gaps between races, it’s socializing with others on the track that also drives him. “We’re catching up, finding out what’s been going on in [each other’s] lives,” he says. “It’s a real community.” Senkow has encountered at least one other accountant who races, and while most people have an automotive or technical background, racers “come from all walks of life,” he says. Despite the excitement of being on
the track and winning a race this year, Senkow wouldn’t give up his day job to be a professional racer anytime soon. “I very much enjoy the work that I’ve done — the teaching and administrative work. I think I’ve had the best of both worlds.” — Dexter Brown
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