HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) — A Hampton Roads teenager is bringing awareness to mental health, while he practices his favorite hobby — racing.

Atley Wiese got hooked on NASCAR at a young age — the only one in his family, apart from his grandfather. "It was really my grandfather and watching NASCAR with him that really got me into that stockcar world,” Wiese said. He begged his parents for a go-kart. They were hesitant, but finally bought him one when he was nine. You can now see him zooming around Langley Speedway in a limited late model car in the NASCAR Advanced Auto Parts weekly series. "It kind of started off as a hobby, but as I began doing it more and more, it just started to become something that I thought, 'Hey this may be more than just a hobby,'” Wiese said. And that hobby gained

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