Adam Sobolik was a guy that everyone liked, and to those that knew him well, loved. He was a fellow racer and a friend, and he showed a lot of us how to go fast on the track! And man, we had a lot of fun doing it! I wish I had gotten to know him better in the year or so time that I would run into him at the track @ Poorboy RC Raceway & Hobbies.

With Adam being a Team Associated loyal fan, I will never forget the night when I asked him to test drive my TLR buggy and make suggestions on what to improve on it, and being the nice guy that he is, he reluctantly obliged to give it a go. I had been driving it for the last half hour with battery almost dead, and after I handed him the radio, and he drove a few laps, he says, "Joe! You got yourself a 14 second car!" I could see him smiling from ear to ear, but I thought he was just kidding me, and I dared him to "show me." So, I proceeded to put fresh tires and a charged battery in the car and within the next 5 minutes, Adam impressed us all and drove that TLR buggy one hot lap after hot lap after hot lap and so on around the track at PBR, besting his own hot lap time with his own car. I will never forget him saying, "Joe you know I can't go home tonight until I beat that time with my own car." lol

For the next several weeks, we messaged back and forth on Facebook and he would jokingly tell me to sell my TLR buggy to him. I would see him at the track, and he would smile and say "Aww shiiiet, you taking good care of my car?", and we would laugh about it. Sometimes, I think he was half serious and I think he lost some sleep over it actually, until eventually, he sets a new faster hot lap with his B6.3 several weeks later. It was good times, and we had fun messaging each other over that on Facebook.

I will miss Adam Sobolik for the fact that that night he showed me how to be fast. It wasn't my car that was the problem; it was my driving, and I was just slowing it down. His enthusiasm, passion, and determination for going faster is unparalleled. For several weeks, as he kept trying to set a new hot lap, I thought I had a hand in maybe converting him from a Team Associated guy to a TLR guy, but now that I think about it, I think maybe he had more of an impact about me being a TLR guy and now a Team Associated guy. These are toy cars that we race, but at the same time, they are more than that. They are part of who we are, and we are AE.

Adam, if you are able to see this, thank you, we all miss ya' man! I imagine you were there and you also enjoyed all the good racing that took place at Jcon 2022 WCCC. Just know that you are always welcome to drive my car anytime, and if it happens to be while I am racing against Austin, Matt, or Mikey so you can beat them one more time, it will be our little secret. ; )
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