Dennis Grant

Dennis Grant arrived on the SCCA Autocross scene in 1997 and immediately progressed to National level ProSolo. An early adopter of social media, he recorded his racing exploits on the Talon Digest, building a small following of well-wishers. Riding the "import racing" boom of the late 1990s, he helped the SCCA reach out to this demographic through his creation of the Street Modified class of highly modified production-based cars, and then he joined the class himself. Forced to learn racing engineering in order to become competitive, he documented his experience on the Autocross to Win website so that future would-be engineers wouldn't have to learn from scratch the way he did. Eventually, he turned A2W into a book. After winning several National-level championships, Dennis retired from racing and returned to military service, but he still dabbles in engineering and cars in his spare time, documented on an intermittently updated Far North Racing YouTube channel. He lives in New Brunswick with his wife of 26 years and her asshole dog. In 2022, he wrote a new book, "The Hobbyist's Guide to CNC", capturing his experience building and working with small-scale CNC machines, specifically to help people with no prior manufacturing or machining experience learn to operate hobby-scale gantry routers, lasercutters, mills and lathes.