Nick Dompierre Start Your Engines
October 28, 2008 @ 5:00 AM
Do you take friends to the racetrack to make them shit their pants?
Haha, nah… A couple of my friends have race cars, too, so we go up there together, and… just go race, and shoot the shit. That’s good times!
How fast are you on a quarter mile?
It’s just 1.320 feet, that’s what a quarter mile is. And it runs somewhere around 9.5-ish. Yeah, pretty much completes a quarter mile in 9.5 seconds, that’s 141 miles per hour.
How about accidents? Kinda hard on a short distance…
No… No accidents. Nah.
Obviously, you skated before you got into racing, right?
No, I was skating when I was younger, and then I got my first car, which was my Camaro—and then I just wanted to make it fast. I got sponsors, started getting a little bit of money, and then…I spent the money on the car, to make it go faster.
In a car, are you a good passenger?
Well, on the street, yeah, but there’s no one allowed with you in your car, when you’re on the track.
Anybody else allowed a go?
Oh no, I’m the only one who drives it.
How did you get into skateboarding?
A skatepark opened up by my house, just a little outdoor concrete skatepark. I never had a skateboard, so I always went to my cousin’s house after school, borrowed his board, and gave it back the next day. One day—I was skating his board, which was pretty beat up by that time—some guy just gave me a whole complete.
Like, what?!
Yeah, that’s what I thought.
Was that already at a point where you kind of knew that you were good, like above average?
I don’t think I looked at it that way. I just skated because it was a lot of fun, so I skated more, and more—and that was pretty much all I did. It was like: “My whole life is about skating.”
During the last years, we’ve read your name a bunch of times—in different big-name interviews, as an answer to „Who’s the best“-ish type questions, for example. How does stuff like that feel to read? Do you read skatemags at all?
My brother reads a lot of the magazines, and he always comes up and asks if I heard what so-and-so said, or he just tells me, because usually I haven’t heard or read it. I don’t really read skatemags that much. It feels cool to have the pros talk about me, because growing up…
The way you say “the pros”…do you consider yourself a part of this…bubble that is around the actual act of skateboarding, at all? [Sorry for interrupting, didn’t notice.—Ed.)
What do you mean?
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