My name is David Fletcher, and I’m the President of the Average Drivers Club. I was born July 1st, 1958 in Warren Ohio. I’m currently 48 years old, and I've been married to my wonderful wife Marsha since 1986. I have three Stepdaughters; Stephanie, Stacey, and Danielle. I have six grandchildren; Amanda, Zachary, Ryan, Cindy, Aiden, & Nicholas, and one Great-grandchild, Riley. Love them all dearly. 
My Father worked for the FAA as an Air Traffic Controller, so we moved quite a bit in my early years. Finally set roots down in '64 in Akron, Ohio. Lived in Lima, Ohio for two years after graduating high school, earning an Associates Degree in Automotive and Diesel Mechanics from Northwestern Business College and Technical Center. Came back to Akron and have been here ever since.
Hired into the U.S. Postal Service in 1979 once I graduated from NBC Tech. Worked as an Automotive Mechanic for 12 years until I got bored to death with it, and moved on to Stockroom then Vehicle Maintenance Administration. I'm presently the Administrative Clerk at the Akron USPS Vehicle Maintenance Facility, which basically means I'm usually sitting at a PC doing data entry, timekeeping, report generation, etc. And I don't have to get my hands dirty anymore, yeehah!
My real racing career started with SCCA Auto-X back in the late 70’s and early 80's, winning the Tri-State (Ohio, Pennsylvania, W. Virginia) Championship in my class in my '78 Volkswagen Scirroco. Most memorable real racing memory is an Auto-X event that was held at Nelsons Ledges in Ohio, the only time I've been able to drive a real road course in anger. Nothing like the feeling of entering T1 at 90 mph with the inside real wheel hiked in the air; loved it!
I started virtual racing on the original Playstation with Need For Speed. I’m not going to count the games on the old Colecovision, Sega Master System, or Sega Genesis; that was too long ago! First PC racing games were Viper Racing, and F1 Racing by Eidos Interactive. I can remember seeing GPL at K-Mart in early 1999 (it was over $50!) and remember thinking to myself - why would anybody care about those old cars?! Well, a few months later I stumbled upon a web article that was discussing GPL, and I realized what it was all about. Found a copy on Ebay for $9.25, and the hook was set.
GPL is my first love, but I also run a bit of GTL & GTR2. I also have F1 Challenge (and it’s mod’s), NR2K3 (for GTP and TransAm), Richard Burns Rally, and Rally Trophy on the hard drive. And if I need a non-racing diversion, it’s usually with the Tiger Woods series, as I’m a big golf fan.
My system is a P4 2.2G, 1G Ram, Nvidia 6600 GT. I use a Logitech DFP steering wheel.
BIO of Monte Smith
Born (yes) in August 1927 to a dairy farmer out in the back blocks of Queensland, and lived there until my parents found they didn’t even like each other. My mother took me to live in her parent’s home in Brisbane which just happened to be right next to the Davis Park Speedway.
This was to be my first exposure to such things as motorcycles and that people raced each other on them. (I was only 6 yrs old at the time) and it left quite an impression on me.
From then until I turned 18 it was just school and studying music which came in handy later when I moved around the Country. I got jobs in towns I wanted to stay in by finding the Brass Band Conductor and offering my services if he found me a job. (That never failed).
I turned 18 a week after World War 2 ended which suited me fine as the Army was not my thing, but I found something just as dangerous in the form of Midget Speedcars at the Exhibition Speedway. I say dangerous because in those days there were no roll bars or multi-strapped safety belts other than a single strap across your lap and what we called crash helmets were not much better than a pudding bowl stuck on your head.
It was there that I met another 19 year old tearaway by the name of Jack Brabham, who brought his amazing little 1,000cc J.A.P. engined midget up from Sydney for the season and what a goer that little car was. Not to mention the wheel skills of "De Man himself". I confess I saw more of the back of Jack's car than he ever saw of mine.
We Queensland drivers were unhappy with the pay we received compaired to the visiting drivers and so I became an inaugural member of the "Queensland Speedcar Drivers Association" which still exists, where I learned to officiate and the value of being properly organized.
When I saw the visiting Americans Cal Niday-Perry Grim and Satin Brewer with their professionally built Offenhausers and Edelbrocks perform I felt foolish and sold the car, for in no way could I afford to be competitive any more.
I then turned to motorcycles which was more in keeping with my pocket and stayed with that until I was about 45 yrs old and beginning to feel "old".
Motor Sports was not my only attempt to "show off". There has been Boxing, Rugby League (one type of Aussie Football) and I.S.U. Pistol Shooting to mention a few, but to round it all off this wonderful Cyber Racing which started off for me as "Need for Speed 2" which my son Paul talked me into trying.
Since then I have worked my way through (with Paul) most of what's going in the "Cyber Racing World" to the present moment where I am now only driving GPL in ADC and having no restrictions on my time I am able to participate in every event which could be as many as six times per week.
BIO of Bernd Nowak
Born on the 17.12.1964 in Germany, Duisburg. I stayed here until now because I love this area. For some it's better known as the 'Ruhrpott' due to the history in mining and steel processing.
I had my 1st computer/game experience during my work qualification as an electrician. We had a Commodore C'64 at work and I remember long program listings which we tried to type in for some new, cool programs. Mostly with some type errors so the programs didn't run ;)
At that time, I was 17, I bought my 1st drum kit and a VW Bus and I joined my 1st band: A blues band. During the next years we did many rehearsals but less gigs. After some years the band split and I was doing some drum training alone. Finally a Punk Rock Band was searching for a new drummer and we tried it. It was a great Band and we had some greater gigs and even the chance to have a label contract (It was the label that had 'Die Fantastischen 4' under contract). We dumped it because they have watched us live as we played in a hall for 2000 people with only 10 well known friends and somewhere around this label agents. We played our worst concert feeling lonely in this hall but that was it. You only have one chance :( After some more good gigs during the next years we drifted away and the band split. I joined some other projects but it was over.
During this time I changed my profession and switched over to a company which sold PCs and local area networks. I learnt a lot during this days: MS DOS 3.3 and manual compiled Novell network servers. In my spare time I created my 1st PC. A 386 with a co-processor suitable for playing Wing Commander, Links and the F1 sims from Geoff Grammond (Split screen for more then one player :D )
As Grand Prix Legends hit the stores I read some of the articles and bought it. I tried for a month or 2 but found it so hard that I switched over and played other computer games. To bad :( Maybe I missed some of the good old days. I recovered the game in fall 2001 and did some google for updates. I found the Racesimcentral site, GPLEA and GPLrank. A new world opened. Then I found that this is an online game and did some testing in open Vroc races.
The next step was that I find the ADC in a thread I followed from RSC. Great bunch of people. At this time some Europe people (Markus, Rob, Frank, Paolo) joined the ADC and we did the Europe Division. Over the months I searched for more challenge and joined the league Markus and Paolo managed and was able to do some racing with one of the greatest drivers which are playing GPL today. Joosa is one of them. After they changed the race day I tried some other leagues but I never found such a great bunch of people like in Markus league and in the ADC. So David, Mark and I started to think about a league in the ADC: The ADL. The first try was a mess and is not something to be proud of. But the second start and now known as the ADL Season 1 was a success. Great racing.
BIO of Robby
Full name Robert Edward Canty
Nickname(s) Robby
Date of birth 03 March 1951
Place of birth Yakima, Washington
Biography – racing life
I’ve always been a sports car fan, owned a Fiat 850 and Triumph TR4 along the way. There’s never been an opportunity for any real life racing, just following 
Formula 1 from the mid ‘60’s to mid ‘70’s. Once PC’s came along I was attracted to flight simulators, purchasing multiple versions of MSFS, then combat stuff showed up and I got into Jane’s Longbow for a while.
My old PC got passed up by newer games due to hardware limitations. I remember looking at GPL when it came out and having to put it back on the shelf because my PC didn’t have enough grunt. Finally, I was able to build a new PC and gaming once again became available. I picked up a cheap package deal that included SCGT, which was pretty fun. Then I remembered GPL and went looking to see if it was still available. Lo and behold I found a copy and the rest is history. I had no idea of the amazing on line community and all the add-on stuff out there. I flailed away at it for some time until I ran across this spiel about an Average Drivers Club, which held some curious attraction to my sense of a good time.
Somewhere along the line I made a nuisance of myself and got promoted to Division Director of the Average bunch, which is something I consider to be one of the significant events in my life.
My present PC is an AMD 2.2 with GeForce TI 4200 64 MB card. Of course I use a Momo Force wheel / pedal with squash ball mod.
Biography – normal life
In spite of what some may believe, I do live a fairly normal life here in Springfield, Oregon. I’ve got a great job with the City of Eugene and look forward to retirement in just a couple more years.
I’ve been married to Linda for 20 some years. Together we raised up two kids, and now have two grandkids with a third on the way. I’m not sure she understands my interest in all this, but she is generally tolerant given the proper concessions.
Other interests include scuba diving (when I can afford it), playing ice hockey, and maybe some golf now and then.
BIO of Andi Cole
I am currently directing the GTR arm of the ADC.
I was born in September 1955 (yes I’m 50!) just north of Bristol in the UK, my father was a local government officer and we travelled around the country whenever he changed jobs, ending up at Bristol again where I did my secondary education. 
I studied Computer technology at Swansea University (Wales) in the early 70’s, none of which is relevant today. But it did manage to get me first job at GEC writing operating systems for automatic test equipment. These test systems are still being used and until recently used to test system boxes for Condorde.
I started real motor sports, rallying and auto tests, whilst at university in the Welsh forests where today’s Rally GB is held. But I couldn’t afford to carry it on once I started working. My first job was writing assembly code for Data General mini computers using paper tape as the input medium and the memory core really was small round magnets with wires through them, all 8K of it. My claim to fame was to be able rewrite code on the CPU switches in binary. But I’ll never forget 63077 (octal) meaning ‘halt’ and the ever popular program comment ‘; should never get here’ – which was usually placed next to the halt command.
I met Nicola at work and we married Oct 1981, her father was in the Royal Navy, managing the dockyard in Gibraltar where we got married. Shortly afterwards we both changed jobs and I tried working for a software consultancy but it didn’t work out so I moved on to work for Marconi as a Software manager.
When software development became more of a science than an engineering skill I moved into computer management. The stresses of which led to three nervous breakdowns and a huge loss of personal confidence. This happened at about the time our son, Thomas, was born. Together with Nicola we have spent the last 19 years rebuilding my life. It has been very odd ‘growing up’ again alongside Thomas who has now left home for university.
My computer gaming started with Elite on a BBC Micro and I still love space adventures especially the highly underrated Wing Commander series. If only I had the time for X2 and 3. Sim racing started seriously with RAC rally, TOCA, Colin Mcrae Rally and Sports Car GT. All of which I’ve used at Lan parties prior to the Internet being widely available. I dabbled with on-line GPL but never got a satisfactory group of people together.
Last year I was diagnosed with testicular cancer – boy that’s a scary experience I can tell you – but, following an operation and several weeks of chemotherapy it has remained at bay for a good 12 months now. As most ADCers are male I won’t go into the details but I’ll show you the scar if you wish ;-) It was whilst recovering I started checking up on the GTR mod for F1 99-02 and that led to GTR and the ADC.
In real life, although I used to love driving off road I now find pure acceleration the most thrilling, which is lucky really as sustained high speeds are very dangerous – or so I’m told! I’ve always had a need to change cars and have had many over the years. The current car is an Evo VIII whose only problem is regular brake vibrations from high speeds.
Other hobbies include PC maintenance which I use as an excuse to upgrade my PC so the bits can be passed onto other family members. Currently the PC is a P4 Extreme Edition 3.73Ghz, 2GB RAM, Geforce 7800GTX, Logitech Driving Force wheel and ECCI pedals.
At the moment I spend most of my time doing ADC administration – and loving every minute of it.
Favourite music – Wishbone Ash.
