Women's Motorsports Network Podcast
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Melinda Russell
Women's Motorsports Network Podcast
From Figure Skater to Drag Racing Champion: Dina Parisi's Journey
Former IHRA Pro Mod World Champion Dina Parisi shares her journey from professional figure skater to drag racer and advocates for prioritizing safety in motorsports.
• Dina discusses her unusual career path from Ice Capades figure skater to drag racer, noting surprising parallels between both performance careers
• Racing fans get direct access to drivers in drag racing, creating meaningful connections unlike other motorsports
• Dina emphasizes the importance of proactive safety measures, including proper protective gear regardless of rule requirements
• Critical safety equipment like neck protection, gloves, and proper helmets are non-negotiable regardless of your racing class
• "Fire burns at zero miles per hour" - accidents don't just happen at high speeds
• Common safety oversights include crews turning their backs to moving vehicles and excessive personnel on starting lines
• Junior racers need consistent safety education from parents and race organizers throughout the season
• Complacency is a major safety risk even for experienced racers
• Dina recommends walking the racetrack before races to familiarize yourself with exits and turnoffs
• Understanding proper fire suppression system preparation and chute packing is essential knowledge for all racers
Find Dina Parisi on social media: @DinaParisi or visit DinaParisiVentures.com to learn more about racing safety.
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Dina Parise:yourself. Melinda, thank you so much for having me on. It's been a hot minute since we have spoken.
Melinda Russell:Yes, it has.
Dina Parise:Yeah, so hello to the listeners. My name is Dina Parisi. I am a former pro figure skater turned pro drag racer. I know that sounds odd, but it actually makes sense in my head. I am a drag racer, I run Pro Mod, so I have a 3,000 horsepower Cadillac. Her name is Stella, named after my grandma, who never had a driver's license. That's so hilarious and sorry, I lost my train of thought. I am, I was 2015 IHRA Pro Mod World Champion, and that's about it. I mean, that's pretty much me in a nutshell.
Melinda Russell:And before drag racing, though, you did some interesting things. Why don't you tell us a little bit about that? Because transitioning from that career to drag racing still is am amazed about that. So go ahead and tell us what were you doing in your 20s.
Dina Parise:So in my in my 20s, I was, uh, I was a professional figure skater for the ice capades. Um, unfortunately, some of the younger set may not know what that is, uh, but um, kind of like a disney on ice. But we were a little bit more. They called us a variety show instead of we didn't have just characters. Um, I did that for about four years and it's funny because I do tell people that, you know, skating in the ice show and and drag racing in a series, they're actually more parallel than people would think. Um, you know, when we were skating in the show, of course we were putting on a show, we were entertaining, and it's the same thing with drag racing, it's totally entertainment. Um, we went from city to city to different venues and, uh, many times we would see the same fans. We would see the same workers, you know, like the locals as we call them. And same thing with the drag racing we go to different tracks. We see a lot of the same track workers. We'll see a lot of the same fans. That will, you know, come and see us and come to our pit area.
Dina Parise:And it was an amazing way to spend part of my 20s. You know, I got to travel the United States, skate in an ice show and, you know, feel like a megastar every night. I wasn't, but it made you feel that way. It was just, it was, it was just super cool and I enjoyed. You know, sometimes we would do autograph signings after the show, kind of by the door of the arena, much like we'll sign autographs in our pit area. And that's for me, that's my favorite part is the fans just getting to hang out with the fans, because you, you know, drag racing, every ticket's a pit pass. So all of our, all of our fans get to come in and, you know, hang out with us and ask us questions. And the good thing for our marketing partners is they get to see our marketing partners up close and personal and we actually get to discuss what their products are about right to people, face to face right that's.
Melinda Russell:That's so much better than a lot of the other kinds of sports. But you know, a NASCAR driver doesn't have a chance to talk to you really face-to-face about what's on his car, even though you can buy a pit pass and go in the pits. But there's you and 100 other people you know. So, yeah, so much. Drag racing does it right in that in that way, promoting a track takes heart and now showing appreciation can be just as easy with send out cards. You can thank sponsors, volunteers, drivers and fans with personalized digital cards sent right from your phone or laptop. Add a photo, write a message and hit send. It's that simple Unlimited sends for just $10 a month. Go to sendoutcardscom forward slash 53240. That's sendoutcardscom forward slash 53240. Because gratitude builds great tracks.
Dina Parise:I definitely feel like drag racing. It's not a knock to NASCAR, but you know we in drag racing you buy that one ticket. You don't need the golden ticket to be able to go back into the garage area or the pit area, as we say. You know we have everything is right there and it's hands on and you know many times they can, you know, for certain things touch and feel and really get a hands on experience things, touch and feel and really get a hands-on experience.
Melinda Russell:right, right, so much better, and it makes them come back for sure. I think so. Yeah, I think so too. So you got into drag racing. Was that because of your husband, or how did that happen?
Dina Parise:I got into drag racing, much to my husband's dismay, but it was his fault. Uh, he, he had built where we were married in April, 25 years. So it's been, it's been a minute. Um, he had built a 1967, uh, camaro. Uh, it had a blower on it, just like our cars have the whole entire time. That's, that's what we like to run. And, um, my very first race that I went to with him was I'll never forget it was Mabel Grove. It was a super Chevy and I watched. I got to stand on the line and watch that car go down the racetrack and I was. I was hooked from that moment on.
Dina Parise:I had never. I was in my early 30s, I actually had never been to a drag race. I'd been to other types of races, I'd never been to a drag race and I absolutely fell in love with it. I fell in love with, of course, the fast cars, the sounds, the smells and the people, the camaraderie. The people are amazing, from the fans to our fellow racers. It's, it's just, it's a great community all the way around it's.
Melinda Russell:It's just, it's a great community all the way around. Yeah yeah, you can't. You know the people and and just it's like going back every weekend to hang out with your family, and sometimes it's more fun than hanging out with your real family. So there you go Exactly, exactly. Yeah, for sure. So you've been out of racing for a little while, but you're going to get back into it. Do you want to share about that a little bit?
Dina Parise:Absolutely, I appreciate it. Yeah, we've been out for I'm going to say since like right right around COVID-ish time 2020 was COVID.
Dina Parise:Yeah, I think it was about 2019. We wound up in COVID. We wound up, we sold, we got rid of the rig and everything. It was a big nut and we didn't know how long it was going to be to pay for it and not use it. So we said, well, we'll just have to start over, which that's what we're doing now. It's been about two years. We purchased a new to us, but not new, it's actually a 2001 ultra comp trailer. It was, uh, it was an old nascar trailer. Um, jason hogan was his name. He lives near up near our shop and um we purchased, uh, the trailer and a truck for it, and andrew actually remodeled the whole inside of the trailer. He, um, he gutted the lounge and put in a bathroom and a shower and, because this girl needs a shower, on those race days.
Dina Parise:I don't care what anybody says, sometimes I just hop in there just to cool off and um and so it's, it's pretty much done and pretty much ready to go. It has been a process In the interim of these last couple of years. Life has been lifing like it does and you know throwing some monkey wrenches in here and there. So you know my husband had an illness and he's still kind of battling with that, but he, he is the energizer bunny, he keeps going. And you know we've had other things with, you know, my parents and then my mom passing away. So you know, just life stuff. So we are, we're definitely pushed behind in schedule due to these things, but we weren't planning on testing in the summer. You know, when it's a gazillion degrees and quite frankly, this sounds very off, but you know that's, that's swamp ass city yeah, because it's so hot.
Dina Parise:But you know what we're gonna do, what we have to do. If we have to test in the summer, we will, and so I've been just putting some feelers out for that to see. Now, where will you go to do that, do you know? We, I'm not, we're not certain just yet. Okay, um, and we, you know, at this point we, uh, you know we need data.
Dina Parise:Uh, we've made changes, we had made changes to the motor and then we had not gone back out, so we made some changes and, um, it's gonna it's gonna be definitely a learning curve, um, and, and you know, just getting myself comfortable back in the seat again, um, we just talking about safety. We actually just did a new poured in seat, which it actually is mandatory. But I would say, for anybody, um, who wants to feel safe and kind of snuggly in their race car, I highly, highly recommend a port and seat. It definitely makes a difference. If, god forbid, something happens, it is going to absorb a lot of the shock, so you know it's going to keep your body from getting too, too beat up.
Melinda Russell:Right. Well, let's talk about safety a little bit. You posted a couple things on Facebook and and it kind of pushed me to reach out to you and have you come on and and talk about the importance of safety. I think it's something we don't talk about near enough. And then you know, I know you've got a couple stories about people who don't think it's as important as you and I do. So why don't you go ahead and just share about safety and why it's so important?
Dina Parise:Yeah, thank you, I appreciate that. And you're right, it is. Safety is something that for some reason, is so overlooked. I find that people will want to spend a gazillion dollars on their motor to go faster, but yet they don't want. They're going to complain about the price of safety equipment to keep them safe and alive. Right, you know, god forbid, something happens and it's not like, and I think sometimes people are like oh, you're doom and gloom. I'm not doom and gloom, I don't want to see anything happen to anyone.
Dina Parise:But, being an experienced racer for 20 years, I've seen things. I've experienced things on my own that have really led me to want to say to people look, you need to be proactive, not reactive, because that's what happens Everybody. You know when there's that corner in your town where there's a million car crashes and then finally you get somebody to put a light, you know you get the powers, that be to put up a stop sign or a light. You know that you're being reactive. Just be proactive and do it and take care of it before something else happens. So I think that people, people, forget that your head is very heavy, god forbid. You're in a crash. How your head is heavy and then with the helmet on it, it's heavier. So you want to make sure that you have that neck protection, whether you know whether it be the neck ring or whether it be, you know, like a hybrid of some sort, hans, whatever neck device. And who cares if it's mandated? That's one thing people like. Well, it's not mandated, who cares? Right, it's not mandated that you wear underwear either, but you do, don't you? So I'm just saying, right, so, if, right, so, if it's, who cares if it's not mandated?
Dina Parise:You know, we, we, when we ran um in the beginning, the 67, camaro andrew was building his pro mod and I had stepped into the 67 and then eventually we had two pro mods, we got rid of the 67 and had two promotes. But when I ran the 67, that car ran 890s. And I'm going back 20 something years, right, right, I actually wore a Hans device and I had some guy in the in, like, in the staging, like I was. Oh what do you think? You're a John Forster.
Dina Parise:And I said, well, I said, if, god forbid, something happens, I hit the wall, something happens. I said I happens. I said I'm going to be safe, I'm going to be protected, and then I can get out and make my cougars a sandwich for lunch. So this way I'm safe and nobody misses lunch. It's a win-win if you ask for lunch, right, yeah, so these things. It just makes me crazy that people will spend so much on their program. But safety is an afterthoughtthought. We really need to get people to understand, especially now, because cars on different levels, they're just getting faster and faster and we need to, even if it's not mandated. We need to keep up with what the car is doing, not what the rule book's doing yeah even at that point.
Dina Parise:So and this, this is not a hate to anybody the total observation. So let me preface this with that JJ the boss from Street Outlaws. He had at one point he had had a pretty nasty crash and I think he crashed into his wife's car. I believe they crashed together at, you know, on a street race. And the fact remains that young people watch this and everybody thinks it's so cool, which is great.
Dina Parise:It is cool when he, when they showed he was pretty banged up, he had on a cut-off shirt, jeans and he his helmet. I think he got it from Evel Knievel in 1975. Yeah, because it had and it had no, no face shield. You know, his face was all banged up and and I just don't understand. I get the street racing thing. It's you got to be cool, I get it. But there's the flip side of that, where you have all these kids and everything that are that are paying attention to what you do, you know, and it's it. It just you know. We have kids coming up in the ranks and I want them to be able to take the safety aspect of it seriously.
Melinda Russell:Well, and you know, like you say, yeah, you have to be cool, you know, but you're not cool if you die or if you're permanently damaged and you can't race again what it's not worth it.
Dina Parise:It's, it's not. And I I also will watch some, sometimes in car videos. People will post in car videos and I'll see someone that's in a relatively fast car. No gloves, yeah, visor up. You know, if you have fire and your visors up, your face is gonna get burned, you know you're. You're gonna inhale more smoke than you may if your visor was down and locked, not to say that you're not going to inhale it, but maybe less than you would. And as far as the gloves I had, we were selling safety equipment at one point and a gentleman wanted to buy a jacket and he said, well, I'll wear my jeans.
Dina Parise:And I said, well, okay, I said you may as well, just get the whole suit. Just, you know, get the suit, get the shoes, do what you need to do. And he didn't want gloves. I was like you really don't want to pair no, and I said, well, I asked him. I said what do you do for a living? So he tells me he's a plumber and I said okay, because he was a hobby racer, and I said okay, I said you are aware that fire burns at zero miles per hour?
Dina Parise:Right, and it stopped him for a second and I said I'm going to say it again yeah, fires burns at zero miles per hour. You don't need to be going anywhere to be on fire. Yeah, so I've seen it happen at the line, I've seen it happen in pit areas with a startup. I've seen it happen over the last few years. I've seen crazy things happen and you just you never know right. A little bit of a spark and there it goes. So I said to him, I said, said, just think about if something were to happen, a spark and a fire, your hands get burnt, how are you going to go to work? And he looked at me, he didn't really say much. So he did. He left without the gloves, which, yeah, I my my brain couldn't, I couldn't even wrap my brain around that yeah, but two.
Dina Parise:But two weeks later he came back and he said he said I made the mistake of telling my wife what you said and for the last two weeks she was on him for that. That two weeks she was on him every day, why, you know cause? His thing was I don't need gloves, I don't go as fast as you, which is why I, in turn, said to him fire burns at zero miles per hour. You know, it doesn't. It doesn't matter how fast you could be going, tense, something could happen, it doesn't matter. I just wish, I just wish that, and I always tell people, feel free to reach out to me. You know, if you have questions about safety equipment and I've have had from some of the videos that I've made I have had people reach out and I've pointed them in the right direction.
Dina Parise:Yeah, um, you know our for for my class, for pro mod, nhra rules now require, uh, fresh air, which I'm really excited about because I'm a migraine sufferer, so I'm excited that I have a little air in my helmet. Yeah, yeah. So that's, that's a whole nother. That's a whole nother deal. And it one of the racers I forget who it was one of the racers this weekend the pro mod races in NHRA. It's funny cause I was just. I was just editing a video about this Cause we use safe craft for our fire suppression system and there's a pin that goes to lock the lever of the fire suppression system. It's just a little like clip. So very first thing that we do in the morning, right before the first startup, is we pull that pin, because for the rest of the day I need that fire suppression system to be active not active, but able to be enabled. Yes, so this driver, his run was disqualified because he left the fire pin in.
Dina Parise:And yeah, and I'm sure it was a mistake, but and for us we would never have gotten to that part of, and I but, and for us we would never have gotten to that part of and I speak for us we would never have gotten to that part of the day that far into the day with the pin still in it just would never have happened. But, um, you know things get overlooked, I get it and um, but you don't want to be and I don't know how other, uh, other different series like dirt track, and that I don't know how their fire suppression works. But I know for us it's a lever and I couldn't think of having to reach out and having, if you were on fire, and having to reach and pull that pin out before I could pull the lever to let this fire suppression come out. I don't.
Melinda Russell:I don't know if you would even be able to think about it, exactly, exactly, and that's the point.
Dina Parise:Right, you, it's, it's these, it's every little detail that you need to pay attention to. But if you pay attention to it always, it's going to become automatic. Right, we do. We will replace the fire pin when we roll it back and put it in the trailer, because in the transit from going from in the trailer to out of the trailer, we want to make sure that you know it doesn't, nobody hits it and you know, sets off the fire suppression system. Just for an example. You know, just making sure that you, that people know how to pack their chutes properly. I have had people ask me questions about that. Now, I am not like the master chute packer, not at all. I know we have Stroud chutes. We've had them for years. I love their chutes and I pack them. I pack them kind of according to how they say. I think everybody has their own little things that they do when they pack theirs. But you know, as long as you know that you push that lever and those chutes come out, you're good to go.
Melinda Russell:Yeah.
Dina Parise:And listen, I've had an instance where I had an instance once where the chute cable broke, so I had no chute shoes. So that was fun, you know.
Dina Parise:I think like, yeah, like things happen, um, but we you know and we check everything over, um, that's, that's a huge thing too. Like part of our safety protocol is making sure that the car has really got a good once over in between rounds. You know nothing's leaking, nothing's loose, nothing's you know nothing's you know gone awry. You know we're big on that too, yeah, and I know some racers that don't take that kind of time. Again, this is just my opinion. I don't see often enough is when cars are at the line and a crew member looking under the car for anything leaking. There are a lot of teams that do that, but then again there are a lot of teams that do not. So I feel like, again, just more safety precautions. A few of my biggest like.
Melinda Russell:I feel like this is like Dina's pet peeve hour, that's okay, you know, dina, we don't think about it as much as we should.
Dina Parise:Yeah, I believe I posted a video and it was a video where there was eight gazillion people on the starting line. And it makes me think back because when we had the 67 um, my husband was in maryland running. I had to work that weekend, unfortunately, but husband was running um in maryland and he, he let go of the trans break and the chrome molly drive shaft spit out of the back of the car. Oh gosh, yeah. So now his, there was one crew guy there and he, he was able to make sure that he just stepped out of the way. But I'm thinking, you see, these, make sure that he just stepped out of the way. But I'm thinking, you see, these, these races where there's, you know, gangs of people on on the starting line standing behind the car and something like that happens. You know, you're just, you're, you're in the line of fire, right, it shouldn't be that many people there. And again, things of course weird, happen. Totally. Get that.
Dina Parise:I watched a. I watched something, was it last week? I watched a race last week or two weeks ago and I watched as crew members as the car was doing the burnout, the crew members were walking to go to take their place, to line them up, you know, to put them in the groove with their back to the car the entire time. So while the car was doing the burnout, their back was to the car. And I always tell people Mike, never turn your back to a car. Yeah, just never turn your back to a car. That's like your worst enemy right there Again. You never know what can happen. That car can move in a split second and run you over.
Dina Parise:Always know your surroundings, know where you are right and uh, people, people tell me, oh, you're too much, I'm like, but I'm not. I'm not you so easily and I've made videos about things that I won't let my crew members do, and one of those things is hold my car in the burnout. Yeah, I'm like. If I can't hold the car straight in the burnout, that's on me and I don't want anybody holding or pushing. You're holding a 3000 or 2600 pound vehicle, that's 3000 horsepower. What do you really think that you're doing?
Melinda Russell:That's what I was just going to say. And what good is that going to be if?
Dina Parise:the car starts to go, the person's not going to be able to stop it. Yeah, and what if you get a pant leg caught or something of that nature, like I know I'm thinking worst case scenario, but I'd rather think worst case scenario and keep myself out of that, out of harm's way. So it's just things like this. So I try to make videos and a lot of times, like I'll, you know I'll be goofy and funny about it, but try to get the point across. I just want people to understand that it's, and especially the cars are just getting more and more powerful, but people can tend to be more and more reckless and I get it. It's cool to stand on the starting line. I know I don't know why they let all those people on the starting line when they do, when they're not crew members. It really should be crew members and track workers. Yeah, for whatever specific car is or cars well and dina, until something catastrophic happens.
Melinda Russell:They're going to let it happen, but again they're going to be reactive instead of proactive. Right, exactly, and you know, we get the longer that you're in involved in something, whether you know, no matter what it is. Um, my husband's a welder, so is he as careful every day out there in the shop as he should be? No, because he's done it for 40 years and he thinks, oh, I'm not going to do, I'm not going to put this, do this, because I'm only going to use the welder for a second or whatever. Now he is very safety conscious, but a lot of people just get laxadaisical about what they're doing.
Dina Parise:And we do we get complacent? We do, you know, and don't think I haven't caught myself, you know doing that. But and you know, it's funny now because I, I translate a lot of that safety even to my regular car um, when I see people that have their feet up on the dashboard, there is nothing that, there is nothing that makes me cringe more than that. If you get into an accident, you are just you're going to be just folded up like a I don't even know what. So I do, I, I think it's, it's really opened my eyes. So I do translate it even to my regular life too yeah and know.
Melinda Russell:So let's talk a little bit about when you know there are so many young kids in drag racing. You go to US 131 Motorsports Park, which is just north of me a beautiful racetrack, and huge events.
Melinda Russell:And they have so many kids, so many kids that race, how you know? Do you think that safety is something parents are really taught and that, or what can we do better to make sure that you know a lot of parents get into racing who've never been involved in racing, get into racing who've never been involved in racing, you know, yeah, um, what do we do to teach those parents how much you know what they need to do, what's what's important and and that? How how can we be better about that?
Dina Parise:yeah, and that's definitely you know, of course, they're the future of our sport and we want them to start out on a on a good footing, right right, um, I, I encourage people I mean, I'm more than happy to speak with people if need be, just because I've I've put myself so far into this whole safety thing over the last couple of years um, I, I encourage them to overdo safety gear.
Dina Parise:Um, I, I don't even know if, if a hans is required, um, I know that I think they're a neck, I think they wear the neck roll, but, um, you know, like that little neck, yeah, um, but I don't know if, if, like a hans or anything is required at this point or at any point for a junior dragster. But, um, I, I had I also posted a video about a junior dragster kid and I don't know how old this kid was. I don't know if it was a boy or a girl. I really didn't want any information because I didn't there was. I didn't want any hate towards the driver, it was just an example where this kid was excited I get it and the car was still going down the racetrack, was up out of the seat and waving their arms oh my gosh. So they had to have unbuckled. Because of because of the position of their body, you could tell they had to have unbuckled.
Dina Parise:And so, yeah, so it's just like you know, keep head and arms in ride at all times, um, and you know, and they're young, so of course course kids.
Dina Parise:Kids are never going to think really that anything is is going to happen, so it's has to be the parents, or even even if they have, you know, their their track team. Everyone get together and I think I really think safety is an important conversation for them to have. I don't know if they do or not. I do have a friend that was very deep in. I'm going to have to ask her. I know she is very, very safety conscious herself with her kids. She never raised, but her kids do and her husband does. But I think that that's a conversation that needs to be had in the beginning of the season, in the middle of the season, the end of the season. It needs to be a continuous conversation.
Dina Parise:I think that pre-race meetings need to be sure that they are a thing. Sometimes they're not, sometimes they're not. And another thing that I notice is I've seen people get confused at the end of a racetrack if they haven't been there before. One of the things that I do at every racetrack even if I've been there before, many of them I have I walk the racetrack in the morning. I always walk the racetrack in the morning, just kind of re-familiarize myself with where you know which way is the turnoff, where are the exits, you know, like that kind of thing. It's that's something that I think people don't think of is you know, knowing the lay of the land. Even if you've been there, you never know if something changes. You know your turnoff's not going to change, just to make sure that you're you're all refreshed and you know. Yeah, you know where you're going.
Melinda Russell:Basically, yeah, absolutely well, dina, how can people follow you so they can watch your videos?
Dina Parise:well, I appreciate that. So, uh, all of my social media is my name, it's at Dina Parisi, or my website is Dina Parisi venturescom, or you can. You can put I am spicy meatball, calm, and you will find me, because I am spicy meatball and and I'm on, and it's always me, I'm on all um, I do Facebook, instagram, uh, twitter threads, oh yeah yeah, and uh TikTok, so you can find me on any of those places, not so much.
Melinda Russell:I would encourage yeah, I would encourage people to follow you and and just it's just a good reminder of what we should be doing, because you know, oh, something happened, we're running late, we get to the track, it's we're. You know we're in a hurry, we're doing this, we're doing that, but you still need that safety checklist and make sure that you've got everything the way it should be. And so I think that you know the videos you do are great and I it doesn't hurt to be reminded of those things. Thank you.
Dina Parise:Yes, yeah, I mean, and it's always me on my social media. So you know, people can always reach out to me through a DM. If they have a question, I'm more than happy to answer it. If I can't answer it, I'll refer them to someone who can.
Melinda Russell:Okay, that's awesome. Well, thank you so much for being on.
Melinda Russell:We've had some internet issues today, so third time was the charm I lost a little bit here at the end, but it's decided that it's going to storm here, so that may be part of what our issue's been. But, dina, I so appreciate you taking time to be on here with me, and I'm going to end the recording here in a second, but if you hold on, I want to get with you before you leave. Okay, thank you. That's it for this episode of the women's motorsports network podcast.
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