09/04/2026
Day 5 posting everyday until everyone on here knows how stinkin cool this event is.
Table Leader No. 5: Michael “Mike” Ciochetti
Sometimes Plan B becomes a whole lot bigger than Plan A.
For years, Mike Ciochetti’s life revolved around one thing: going fast.
He started racing in South Florida and eventually worked as a mechanic on Alan Kulwicki’s 1992 NASCAR Winston Cup championship team, one of the great underdog stories in NASCAR history.
Then Mike got behind the wheel himself.
Between 1996 and 1999, he competed in 41 ARCA Racing Series races, earned multiple top finishes and won the pole at Pocono Raceway with a qualifying lap over 163 mph.
In 1998, he even attempted to qualify for the Daytona 500.
By 1999, plans were developing for Mike to make the jump to NASCAR’s Winston Cup Series.
Then came Talladega.
A massive crash left him with a serious shoulder injury and multiple surgeries.
The racing career stopped.
But that’s where Mike’s story gets really interesting.
Mike was also a pilot. He had already purchased property in the North Georgia mountains with an idea for a private runway and estate.
After the crash, that idea became something much bigger.
Mike and his partners developed Heaven’s Landing, a private fly-in residential community outside Clayton, Georgia, centered around its own 5,062-foot concrete runway.
Think about that trajectory.
Race-car driver. NASCAR crew member. Daytona 500 attempt. Career-changing crash. Pilot. Real estate developer. Entrepreneur.
Mike didn’t simply recover from Plan A falling apart. He built an entirely different life.
That’s why we wanted him at All Access.
What do you do when the thing you spent years working toward suddenly disappears? How do you know when to rebuild the old dream or start a new one? What can failure make possible that success never would have?
On October 6, you get to ask Mike yourself. You get to sit at the table with him.
Michael “Mike” Ciochetti
Developer, Heaven’s Landing
Former ARCA Racing Driver
Entrepreneur & Pilot
AYPROS All Access in October 6
Four conversations. One night only.
Come take your seat at the table.
