Alan Olson owns a Financial Planning firm in Northern Virginia, Olsinvest Financial (www.olsinvestfinancial.com). He started out racing small go-karts at a local indoor facility with a few of his neighbors and friends. One of his friends suggested that he try some real racing as he was taking a school at the local SCCA Club Track.
Alan began his racing in 2005 after completing the SCCA Racing School at Summit Point Motorsports Park. In his rookie year he had finished 6th in points in MARRS – Mid Atlantic Road Racing Series. He was also nominated for Rookie of the Year in 2005.
2006 brought the beginning of Weekend Warrior Racing. Alan took the year off of racing for MARRS series points and made trips to race at Daytona, Fl. and Beaverun in PA. Since he was a young man he always dreamed of Road Racing at Daytona. In his first ever race there, he would qualify 19th out of 69 cars and finish the race in 6th. The following weekend at BeaveRun in PA., he would qualify on the Pole for both races and win both races! Later in the year, Alan began racing a few races with NASA – National Auto Sport Association, with several wins and 2nd place finishes there.

Later in 2006, Alan took up new cause, racing for a cure for ALS. ALS (see www.alsinfo.org/aboutals.html) is also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Alan’s brother-in-law was diagnosed with this cruel disease for which there is no cure. Alan would start from the back, giving up his qualifying position (once on the Pole) of his race group and collect money from fellow racers for each car he would pass. It proved to be a great fundraiser for the ALS Association. All Weekend Warrior Racing cars will now have the ALS Association banner on the hood and we will continue to raise money and awareness at each event we attend.