by Jay | Mar 23, 2010 | NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series
Kobyluck Headed To Greenville With Eye On Top-Five
Waterford, Conn. (March 22, 2010): This weekend, Matt Kobyluck and the Mohegan Sun race team expect nothing but a top-five finish at Greenville-Pickens Speedway. A championship run almost demands it.
“With the schedule as it is this year, you can not afford to have a bad week,” said the driver of the No. 40 Mohegan Sun Chevrolet on the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East. “We start off our season like the Cup ends their season. You have to come out strong and ready to go. It’s the beginning of our Chase.”
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by Jay | Mar 21, 2010 | NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series
Fadden Racing Announces Development Program With Julian Camilo Albarracin
Fadden Racing, Inc. announced today that they have added Columbian Julian Camilo Albarracin as a primary development driver for the 2010 season. Albarracin will begin the year competing in a Late Model in New England before moving into the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in June. The young and upcoming driver will pilot the No. 54 Fadden Racing Chevrolet’s.
Albaraccin’s background is based on road courses with extensive experience in the Skip Barber Series. In 2008, Albaraccin placed second in the Mid Western Regional championship points and then backed that up with a seventh place finish in the National point standings in 2009. In just nine starts last season, Albarracin posted one top-five and seven top-10 finishes. He began his career in Karts in 2001 and also competed in Formula Renault where he traveled to Mexico, Ecuador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico to race.
“We’re very excited to add Julian to the Fadden Racing family,” said car owner Mike Olsen. “We did some testing with him and he has a lot of potential to do very well in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series. We want him to have some time for a learning curve instead of rushing him right into everything so we decided it would be best to start him out in a Late Model and do some testing in the East Series car before we actually start competing.”
Albaraccin turned nearly 400 laps at White Mountain Motorsports Park in a private test that allowed the driver to get acclimated to the heavier, full-bodied stock cars. His pre-season training will include tests at several different venues in addition to the Late Model schedule that is still yet to be determined.
“We’ve already made important steps in his progression to the K&N Pro Series,” said Olsen. “He communicates well with the crew and he’s making huge strides in his transition between car types.”
For more information on Fadden Racing, visit www.faddenracing.net.
by Jay | Mar 11, 2010 | ACT, NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series, New England, PASS
HUDSON, N.H. — The old adage tells us that consistency wins championships, and Joey Polewarczyk Jr. hopes he can prove it true once again in 2010.
The 20-year-old stock car driver will have plenty of chances to find consistency on the track, committing to run the full ACT Late Model Tour season this year as well as a partial NASCAR K&N Pro Series East schedule. Polewarczyk, who owns four career ACT wins and finished a career-best fourth in the final 2009 standings, is looking forward to getting back behind the wheel.
“It’s going to be a busy summer, for sure,” Polewarczyk said. “I’m excited about it. It’s going to be a lot of fun.”
Polewarczyk started making waves for himself last June when he beat two-time Sprint Cup Series champion Tony Stewart — plus a full field of Late Models — in the Vermont Governor’s Cup at Thunder Road International Speedbowl in Barre, Vt. But as good a season as Polewarczyk had, it was his offseason that’s been even more productive.
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by Jay | Mar 10, 2010 | NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series
Greenville Season Opener Just Weeks Away
Mayfield, N.Y. (March 10, 2010): The 2010 K&N Pro Series East season doesn’t take the green flag until Saturday, March 27th, but for Dustin Delaney, driver of the No. 39 Delaney Infrastructure Chevrolet, the season will kick off this Sunday when he heads south to kick off his pre-season testing.
Delaney and his team, led by crew chief Jamie Aube, will test at Greenville-Pickens Speedway in South Carolina on March 17th and follow it up with a test at South Boston Speedway in Virginia on March 18th.
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by Jay | Feb 27, 2010 | NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series
HUDSON, N.H. — Joey Polewarczyk Jr. will test a NASCAR K&N Pro Series East car with Fadden Racing next week.
Polewarczyk, who owns five career ACT Late Model Tour victories, will test for team owner Mike Olsen during a southern states swing to open the month of March. Polewarczyk will test at Gresham Motorsports Park in Jefferson, Ga., on Monday, March 1. On March 2, Polewarczyk heads to Greenville-Pickens Speedway in Greenville, S.C., and then to South Boston Speedway in South Boston, Va., on Wednesday, March 3.
“It’s a real great opportunity,” said Polewarczyk, who has three career starts in the K&N Pro Series, formerly known as the NASCAR Camping World East Series. “Even though I’ve had three races with these cars before, I haven’t ever really had one full day just to go and test the cars and get really comfortable. That, to me, is just going to build my confidence.”
Polewarczyk, 20, competed for Fadden Racing last September in his only K&N Pro Series race of the 2009 season. He started fourth before finishing 28th in the 35-car field after being involved in a late-race incident not of his own making.
Polewarczyk made his K&N Pro Series debut at Thompson (Conn.) International Speedway in July 2008 with a 16th-place finish for owner Barney McRae. Later that season, he posted a career-best finish of sixth at New Hampshire in a Dave Davis-owned car.
“It’s getting closer to racing season here, so just to get some seat time next week and get away from the snow up here will be nice,” Polewarczyk said. “It will be good to get back at it.”
Polewarczyk finished fourth in the ACT Late Model Tour standings in 2009.
by Jay | Jan 31, 2010 | NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series
Logano Captures Second NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown Victory
Runner-up Pena, 16, impresses in debut
IRWINDALE, Calif. – Joey Logano got his second NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown trophy and Sergio Pena nearly made a historic debut on the national stage.
Logano, 19, held off the 16-year-old Pena and two-time race winner Matt Kobyluck for the victory in the 225-lap race Saturday before a sold-out crowd at the Toyota Speedway at Irwindale.
It was Pena’s first career race in NASCAR’s top developmental series and it came in the non-points, postseason event, which has earned the moniker the “Daytona 500 of short-track racing.”
Logano made his mark by winning as a 17-year-old rookie in the 2007 edition; Pena, who only has one year of Late Model racing on his resume, nearly out-did that.
Logano and Pena waged a race-long battle for the lead from drop of the green. For most of the race it was the Pena in heated pursuit of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Rookie of the Year. Pena was able to grab the lead on several occasions. Logano, however, got the best of two late-race restarts to pull away for the victory.
Kobyluck got by Pena briefly on Lap 218, and by the time Pena got back to second four laps later he didn’t have enough time to track Logano back down.
Logano wound up leading a race-high 171 laps. Pena led the other 54 and they swapped the lead five times. Following Logano, Pena and Kobyluck across the line was Matt DiBenedetto and Andrew Myers. Eric Holmes, David Mayhew, Eddie MacDonald, Paulie Harraka and Steve Park rounded out the top 10.
Reigning NASCAR K&N Pro Series West Champion Jason Bowles finished 11th while K&N Pro Series East 2009 titlist Ryan Truex was relegated to 26th after a late-race accident.
It’s been a whirlwind weekend for Pena, a Winchester, Va., native.
Pena, driving for Revolution Racing and Drive For Diversity, beat out three teammates Thursday in a race-off for a chance to qualify for the Showdown. He easily did that, earning the pole in Friday’s qualifying.
The win was a vindication, of sorts, for Logano, who crossed the line first in last year’s NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown, but was penalized to last place for aggressive driving on the last lap.
This was the second year the postseason event was held in January. The first five – 2003-2007 – were held in the Fall.
