Speedway Videos - Richard and Tammy Ford

Speedway Videos has turned off their camera for the final time. We filmed our last race at 411 Motor Speedway in October of this year.

Tammy and Richard would like to thank all of the Track Owners, Series, Drivers and Fans of racing for their great support over the years.

Some may know that Richard raced off and on in his younger years (18-29), and Richard picked up the video camera after giving up racing. Well, Richard raced about 9 races in 2007 and has the fever to drive once again! Richard is turning 40 in February and seems to have decided to have his mid-life crisis by racing in the loc al FWD classes here in Tennessee.

The following people need a very special thanks:

* Donnie & Carol Yocum for giving us our start as videographers in 95 & 96. Thanks for taking a chance with us.
* Carson Branum for giving us our first break in Tennessee at Smoky Mountain back in 2000.
* Joe, PD, RW, and Beverly from Volunteer Speedway. When we thought we were done in 2002, they invited us to Volunteer and treated us like family. We stayed there until 2005.
* Roy Webb & Mike Copeland for all of their advice and help in making us better & bigger than we thought we could be. Roy gave us advice on what drivers wanted and talked us into doing in-car cameras. Mike did more than anybody by creating Speedway Video's first website, giving us a place to post pictures & videos, and so much more. We will never be able to repay him for what he has done for us.
* Sports Plus Video, who answered every question we asked. We learned a lot about shooting video by talking with and watching their videos. Steve deserves a lot of the credit for the way we shoot races.

Thanks to everybody who helped Speedway Videos throughout the years!

Richard and Tammy Ford

How It All Began: The History

Speedway Videos was formed in 1995 in Corpus Christi, TX after Richard Ford unfortunately blew the engine of his racecar at Corpus Christi Speedway. He went to the track the following weekend to tape his brother racing and caught an unbelievable wreck, and everyone asked if they could buy a copy of the video. By the next weekend the track had contacted Richard about video-taping at the track on a weekly basis, thus the beginning of Speedway Videos.

click here to see how it all got started.

Since then Richard, his wife (Tammy), and kids (Janie, Tabatha, and Kayla) have relocated to Knoxville, TN, where Richard and Tammy both began taping races at Atomic Speedway, Crossville Speedway, Kingsport Speedway, Volunteer Speedway, and countless other tracks.