Flat Trak Fotos Information

Flat Trak Fotos has always been a family venture. For years we pulled our little cart, loaded with our picture books, around the pits selling pictures to the riders and their families. Early on, we were helped by our son Lance, but high school activities and then college pulled him away. He now lives in Maine with his wife Diane and three children, Ethan, Ella & Addison. In 1986 Kathy started working for the AMA (sign up & scoring). Kathy's job changed in 1992 when she started running the computer that generates entry lists and line-ups, with sponsor information, for the announcers along with results and press releases for all the teams and press immediately after each race. When the AMA's web site was formed, Kathy uploaded each race results to the web site as the races were run. For two years she mainly worked the Nationals East of the Rockies, but in 1994 she started to do all of the Grand Nationals and has not missed a race since, now working for AMA Pro Racing. This leaves the photography, photo-journalism and web site up to Dave, but Kathy still runs the office. When our daughter Danielle was old enough, she also started to help, but after a few years she followed Kathy over to the AMA. Danielle and her daughter Mackenzie have now moved to Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri. Danielle has worked many jobs for AMA Pro Racing from registration, hand scoring to Computer Timing & Scoring and now works Tech and is the Pit Steward at all of the AMA Pro Racing Grand National events. As of 2016 Danielle has moved on from racing. Along with a new job, they are moving to their new house south of Kansas City, Missouri. In the early years we shot black and white, but started to experiment with color in 1983. We continued to shoot black & white (for Cycle News) until the mid 90s, when Cycle News was able to switch over to color negatives and then to an all color format. The biggest change for us came in 2002 as Dave started the switch to digital photography. Dave shot negative and digital the first year before going all digital in 2003. In 2004 our web site flattrakfotos.com replaced the trusty old cart and books, the riders, families and fans are still the heart of our business. The web site was designed and has always been maintained by Dave.