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Andy Findlay (right), the winner of the Reno National Championship,

July 2, 2017 by Kenneth Newton

Andy Findlay (right), the winner of the Reno National Championship, celebrates after winning with fellow racer Scott Williams at the Reno National Championship Air Races in Reno, Nevada, U.S., April 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Scott Williams)

It's been almost a decade since Findlay's last race. At the end of 2010, the first of three Reno National Championship series, he was awarded a World Championship flight as the head coach of the St. Johns County Thunderbirds. A year later, he was the head coach of the San Jose National League's San Jose Firebirds. He also won the Reno National Championship air race and the Reno National Championship Grand Prix in 2013. And when he didn't race, findlay made his way back to the cockpit of his Lancair Super Legacy, where he is currently finishing at the top.

"It wasn't really my dream come true," Findlay says. "And it was really hard. The first time I made it out of the cockpit was at the Reno NCAF air race, so that was the last time I felt like I was the guy that had won the Reno title."

Findlay says he made it across the course, and the Reno Air Races were his best chance to prove his point. "I wanted to win."

Findlay says he is still trying to get back to where he first left off in his career—winning with another pilot, Scott Williams—but the feeling is that he is still the same person he was before he started flying.

"I'm not really into doing it, though," Findlay says. "I just feel like this is the first time I did it and that that's the only road to it."