Jeannie Carmichael: No, not at all, actually. I’m from Florida. I’m originally from the Clearwater area, and no, not in a competitive family at all.
Vital MX: So, not really a sports-based family. Did you grow up playing any sports or not really?
Jeannie: No, not really. You know, in school, just a little bit of girls softball for a short time like most of the younger girls do. But that was it. I was getting the schoolwork done and I met Big Rick when I was really young. Then that was it.
Vital MX: How did you discover motocross?
Jeannie: We had gotten Ricky a Peewee three-wheeler when he was five because Big Rick had a cousin with boys just a couple of years older than Ricky, and they had them. So, we bought that for him, ironically, for Valentine’s Day (We recorded on February 14th) when he was five years old. Then we took him to Dade City because that was where everybody went. They had practice on Thursday nights and races on Saturday. Big Rick’s cousin and his boys were going so we just took Ricky over there. Then, you hear about other places after you’re around the racetrack. But we didn’t know about Loretta’s and stuff like that. We didn’t know about all that when we started out
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