What and Who is WavingBearFlag?

The What:

In August 2013, two of our members were working corners at Road Atlanta on a particularly boring Sunday morning. For lack of any on-track action requiring their attention, they began contemplating making and displaying their own flags to send arbitrary and confusing messages to drivers and control. They suggested a bear flag.

Yup. That's right. A flag with a bear on it. Why? You must surely be asking yourself. We would offer a more complete explanation, but the brain cells that would have prevented the bear flag idea were mercifully killed off in a post-barbecue moonshine haze the evening before and, as these things often do, the idea gained momentum.

Upon presenting the rest of the team with the bear flag idea, a number of questions were asked. 

"Is the bear just standing there?"

"Is he waving at the cars?"

"Is the flag waving or standing?"

"So would it be a standing waving bear flag or a waving waving bear flag?"

You can imagine where it goes from here. (He fixes the cable?)

And thus, WavingBearFlag was born. This is (sadly) the truth. We welcome more elaborate back-stories, we just couldn't think of any good lies.

The Who:

Adam Thomas is a Structural Engineer from Chattanooga, TN. Adam graduated from Tennessee Technological University in 2004 with a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering - Structural Engineering and a minor in Mathematics. In 2014 he earned his M.S. in Engineering Management from the University of Tennessee and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering. During his undergraduate studies, he lead a student design team to analyze various welding processes used in the fabrication of chassis for a leading NASCAR team. After graduation, he attended Claude Rouelle's OptimumG seminar and began providing part-time engineering support for a newly formed NASCAR Nationwide series team. After the team's dissolution, he became involved in road racing. Adam has raced in 24HoL, Champcar, WRL, and currently campaigns a Howe Camaro in NASA's ST class. Through multiple leadership roles in the sport, including as chief instructor for TracksUnlimited, co-owner of Viral Performance, and Chief Steward for World Racing League - Southeast, Adam has established himself as a racer, instructor, mechanic, and fabricator. He is currently available for private coaching, trackside support, and fabrication.

Andrew Diller is a Manufacturing Engineer that has spent all of his career in the Automotive OEM supply chain. After graduating from Tennessee Technological University with a degree in Industrial and Manufacturing Technologies, he follower his passion for cars into the automotive manufacturing industry. His interest in cars and motorsports started like many when he passed his drivers license test and bought his first car. After testing the waters in drag racing and autocross, he discovered road racing and the go-fast bug hit hard. From the point on, every decision, job, and even college education was just a way to fuel (and fund) the love of racing. After spending 8 years doing track days, time trials, and driver instructing, Andrew made the jump to wheel-to-wheel racing in the Spec Miata class. Andrew is currently acting as mechanic, crew chief, publicist, CEO, CFO, COO, chef and driver under the AndrewDillerRacing.com umbrella. Follow all of his motorsports shenanigans at @andrew_diller on Twitter and on Facebook at facebook.com/andrewdillerracing.