Joey Polewarczyk: ACT Late Model Tour
Seekonk Speedway/Twin State Speedway
Joey Polewarczyk Jr. of Hudson, N.H., continued his midsummer surge on Saturday, July 31, returning to Seekonk Speedway and winning a 75-lap Late Model main event at the track. The victory was Polewarczyk’s second in a span of eight days after claiming his first ACT Late Model Tour win of the season a week ago at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway. Ironically, the car Polewarczyk drove to victory at Seekonk has plenty of history. Not only was it the car that carried Polewarczyk to his first career ACT victory at Seekonk in August 2007, but it’s also the car that two-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Tony Stewart drove in the VT Governor’s Cup 150 at Thunder Road International Speedbowl in June 2009 — and the same car that Polewarczyk set the Late Model qualifying record with at Thunder Road in 2006. He survived a three-wide battle on the race’s final restart with under 20 laps remaining to post the victory. To cap off his week, Polewarczyk finished ninth in the ACT Twin State 100 at Twin State Speedway on Friday night, as well..
WHO: Joey Polewarczyk Jr., Hudson, N.H.
TEAM: No. 97 Pole’s Automotive/NH Precision Ford
WHAT: Late Model 75
WHERE: Seekonk Speedway, Seekonk, Mass. (.333-mile oval)
STARTED: 11th
FINISHED: 1st
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JOEY, HOW DID IT FEEL TO GO BACK TO SEEKONK SPEEDWAY AND WIN — ESPECIALLY IN THAT PARTICULAR CAR?
I’ve always loved that car. The team that I was driving for, they hadn’t really been running it. They have another car they’ve been running, and when they asked me to come down and run this race for them, originally I didn’t even want to do it. I thought I needed a weekend off from racing.
But the more I thought about it, the more I was like, ‘That’s a damn good car. I’m going to go down there and run it.’ I just wanted to come down and run it, because I love it at Seekonk.
TALK ABOUT THE THREE-WIDE RACE FOR THE LEAD AT THE END.
Got pretty, pretty racy there at the end. We went three-wide at Seekonk for one complete lap, and I was on the complete outside. Entire left side door got torn off — but I ended up coming out with the lead. Then we finally pulled away.
It was a lot of fun. I’m on cloud nine right now. It was just a great night.
WHAT HAPPENED AT TWIN STATE ON FRIDAY NIGHT? IT LOOKED EARLY LIKE YOU HAD A PRETTY PROMISING RUN GOING.
We had a rough night. We had a good run going and got all the way up to sixth, but I got caught up in someone else’s mess. Still, to come out of there after that and walk out with another top-10 finish, I’d say that’s a pretty good night in the end.