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DAVE HANDY

Dave Handy assumed Leadership of SascoSports after the untimely death of his partner and long time friend , Charlie Gibson, in the spring of 2004. As Sasco's President, Dave oversees all the work done on race cars in the shop along with his constant attention to Sasco's ever growing tire business.

Dave was born in 1959 and raised in Redding, Connecticut. He was your typical high school athlete playing baseball, basketball and many other sports. In 1974, his dad took him to Lime Rock and he was hooked. Dave's first project was a non-running 3.8 Jag sedan. He was able to get the car back on the road and turned it over to his dad after a couple of years driving it himself.

After high school, Dave continued to work in a couple of shops doing mechanical work and some restoration. In 1977, Charlie invited him to work with him at his house, working on Charlie's cars, which at that time were a Mk 1 Lola and also doing aground up restoration on his 1959 Lister Chevy which was eventually purchased by John Evans of Canada.

In 1988 when Sasco moved into its first commercial location, Dave married Erica and now has two children, Jillian and Ryan, who are often seen at the track with Dave. As the business has grown, Dave, of course, has grown with it. Today, Dave oversees the maintenance of Stevie Hynes' March 78B, Fred and Karl Kaimer's Lola T296 and RT1, Jim Hamlin's Lotus 11 and ex Bruce McLaren Cooper T55 F1 car and Brian Johnsons Pilbeam LMP2 car amoung others. Dave does all of Sasco's engine building and the dyno testing in the shop.
He tries to get on the track regularly. in either his M6B McLaren, Lola T200 and again in '08 Charlie's L23 that is finishing a restoration by the Sasco team.