Nick Dompierre Start Your Engines
March 25, 2009 @ 5:00 AM
Photography by Ian O’Connor
Words by David Luther
Nick Dompierre runs a tight rig. Literally, I mean that he runs super small wheels loose as a goose with rock hard trucks, the better to feel the power surge as he thunders through the world. A few years ago, when he was an amateur, his name was in the final running for Thrasher’s Skater Of The Year, but it was supposedly canned because it would be a sorry reflection on pro skateboarding if an Am came out of nowhere and blew the doors off everything all at once. Be that as it may, his subsequent and inevitable leap into the pro leagues has added a fuel injection to his relentless campaign of nerve- shredding skateboarding.
Fast, furious and For One Night Only, this is Nick Dompierre.
What occupies the top spots of importance in Nick Dompierre’s life?
The what?
Uhm…what are the most important things in your life right now?
Ah… My cars, probably. I have an ‘87 Camaro, that I run on quarter-miles, and I also have a ‘87 BMW, double charged.
Which series?
325iS, it’s an E30.
Nice. Did you just say you race quarter-miles?
Yeah, I take the Camaro, and race it on a track. Street races, too.
How often do you go race?
Whenever I’m home, pretty much. That’s all I do when I’m here.
Okay, I can see that as a professional skater of your status, you have a bit of spare cash—but that’s still one expensive hobby to have.
Yeah, that’s true. That’s where most of my money goes.
Dream car?
That’s kinda though, there are so many cars I’d want…uh…I don’t know.
Carrera GT?
That’d be nice to have.
Right. Have you ever heard that thing up close? I only saw it once, it overtook me while I did about 140mph on the autobahn, and it was gone again in under two seconds. I felt like in a parked car.
Yeah, that car’s bad-ass. There’s a lot of them in Miami. A lot of exotic cars down there. A lot of Lambos, new Porsches and all that…
Do skateboarding, and racing cars have similarities, apart from the fact that there’s very little room for failure?
No, not at all. It’s a totally different thing.
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