A Family Legacy. The Next Chapter.

Powersports and motorsports have been part of my family’s life for generations. They gave us a place to belong, people to learn from, and friendships that reached far beyond a race weekend.

I started PowerSportsHub because I wanted to give something back to that community—and make it easier for more people to become part of it. Great shops, racing organizations, events, businesses, and people are everywhere, but finding one another can still take too much work. My idea was to bring those connections closer together.

PowerSportsHub is our family business. It carries the history of my grandfather Earl Larson, my dad Dave Larson, and the life my brother Nash and I grew up in. Today, with my partner Megan Burba, my brother Nash Larson and his family, and the friends who have been part of our journey, that story continues.

We no longer run the racing series. This is my way of carrying the torch forward—honoring where we came from while building something useful for the people here now and the people who have yet to discover this life.

We’re building PowerSportsHub for the people who use it: helping shops connect with real customers, helping experienced riders and racers share what they know, and giving someone new a welcoming place to begin. I want it to keep growing with the community, listening and improving along the way.

— Dave Larson

Our roots begin with Earl Larson and GEM Products. GEM was part of a grassroots karting world built around parts, problem-solving, service, and relationships that lasted well beyond race day.

Dave remembers GEM at 496 E. St. Charles Road in Carol Stream from approximately the 1980s through 2010. The exact dates are still being documented, but the place it holds in the family story is clear: it was where work, racing, and community came together.

For Dave and Nash, the family business and racing were part of everyday life. The shop, track, tools, trailers, early mornings, late nights, and people around the sport shaped how they learned to work and how they understood community.

The family archive is still being assembled. Rather than repeat unconfirmed childhood ages or fill missing moments with invented stories, this chapter will grow as family photographs, dates, and firsthand memories are identified.

Carrying the legacy forward is family work. Dave is building this next chapter with his partner Megan Burba, his brother Nash Larson and his family, and the longtime friends who helped make racing feel like home.

The family no longer operates the racing series. PowerSportsHub is the new way Dave hopes to give back: connecting real people, shops, organizations, and newcomers while honoring the generations who opened the door before them.

The powersports and motorsports community is broad, passionate, and often scattered. PowerSportsHub brings the marketplace, useful knowledge, shops, organizations, events, machines, and people closer together in one home.

PowerSportsHub Intelligence helps people research, compare, organize, and prepare real work. It supports the connection; it does not replace the specialist, the shop, the organization, or the customer’s final decision.

To every family, friend, racer, rider, shop, crew, and person we have shared this life with: thank you. Thank you for the time at the track, late nights in the shop, road trips, conversations, help, and memories that became part of who we are.

And to anyone discovering powersports or motorsports for the first time: welcome in. This is a place to begin, to learn, to meet people, and to build a story of your own.

Knew GEM Products? Raced with the family? Have an old photograph or a memory to share? We’re assembling the story carefully, with identities, dates, sources, and permission reviewed before anything is presented as family history.

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