Paul Sides - 11J

Paul Sides began his career in 1992 in the 4 cylinder Mini-Stock division racing in Memphis, Riverside Speedway, in West Memphis, Arkansas and several other local tracks in the Mid-South area. Paul won 36 features along with numerous other top five finishes in 72 nights of competition.

The next year, Paul made the move to Sprint cars, racing his number 11 car to several heat wins and top five finishes. He also competed with his younger brother, Jason, at their home tracks. 1994 featured that elusive first win in Memphis against the top veterans and placed third in points for the season.

After a four year break from racing, Paul returned to Sprint car racing driving the American Sprint Car Series (ASCS) cars owned by brother Jason. It was not long before Paul was back “in the saddle” with several heat wins, a Feature win and top five finishes racing in the ASCS, USCS (United Sprint Car Series) and local circuits. At the end of the 2001 racing season Paul finished fourth in points at Memphis Motorsports Park.

During the 2002 season, Paul carried the checkered flag many times at Memphis Motorsports Park and Riverside Speedway. He also competed in 410 cubic inch races at tracks in Missouri, Indiana and Illinois. He has led heat races and competed head to head with the “cream of the crop” in the sport’s most prestigious sanctioning bodies, The Penzoil World of Outlaws. Paul has let spectators experience this fast and furious sport by driving a specially prepared two-seater Sprint car that carries a driver as well as a passenger.

The 2003 season has proven to be one of the best performance seasons to date. Paul has won 3 features, 9 heat races, 18 top ten finishes in 20 starts with 10 top five finishes. One of the feature wins came in a USCS race in Atwood, TN, where he also won the invitational dash the same evening to gain his first “clean sweep” of the nights events. The second came at Memphis Motorsports Park where he missed claiming the points championship by the slimmest of margins.

For the 2004 season, Paul plans on running the local tracks of Memphis Motorsports Park, Riverside Speedway in West Memphis, AR., while competing in selected ASCS, USCS and World of Outlaw events. Paul’s constant companion, wife Deanna, assists in team management duties, t-shirt and promotional item sales.

For the 2005 season, Paul started the season driving a sprintcar "down under" at Parametta Speedway, in Parametta City, Australia. He competed with the World of Outlaws series that was running there. From there, on to East Bay Speedway in Tampa, Florida for the Ronald Laney Memorial.

Then, Paul started running with the USCS series in the Southeastern US. His plans were to run the entire Southern Series and make a run at the points championship. The first races yielded great results, with several top five finishes. In late May 2005, Paul was apporached about working for the World of Outlaws (Dirt, Inc.) driving the Pacecar and the two-seater sprintcar. He has taken that position and is currently touring with the World of Outlaws..