North Haverhill, N.H. (August 10, 2009): Fadden Racing will field two cars at this weekend\u2019s NASCAR Camping World Series East 200-mile event as car owner Mike Olsen gets back behind the wheel of the championship-winning No. 61 to compete in only his second start this season. Jonathan Smith, driver of Fadden Racing\u2019s No. 16 is especially optimistic about the return to road course racing whereas Lime Rock Park was where he started his go-kart career more than ten years ago.<\/p>\n
The Smith family has a long and storied history at the Connecticut road course. Jonathan\u2019s father, who will offer advice to his aspiring son, raced there as well. He considers it to be his home track since many of Smith\u2019s early successes were produced there.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a big fan of road course racing so I consider that to be one of my strengths,\u201d said Smith. \u201cLoving a track is the first big hurdle to get over before you can be successful at it. I have a lot of good memories there and I love the challenge the course presents.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last season, Smith was forced to do a start and park in the event. He wrecked in practice and had no back-up car to lean on.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t wait to actually get to race Lime Rock again,\u201d said Smith. \u201cWe didn\u2019t get a lot of track time last year, but it\u2019ll be different this year!\u201d<\/p>\n
Smith is also looking forward to having a teammate in his car owner Mike Olsen. Olsen, who won the 2001 and 2006 NASCAR Camping World Series East Championships, has had a tremendous record at the road course including ten top-10 and seven top-five finishes. His highest finish is second place and includes leading a career total of 43 laps at Lime Rock.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll be able to gain a lot of knowledge from Mike,\u201d said Smith. \u201cMike is a strong road course racer and I\u2019m definitely ready to learn from him.\u201d<\/p>\n
The weekend kicks off on Friday, August 14th with practice and qualifying followed by the green flag for the 82-lap event on Saturday, August 15th. For more information on Jonathan Smith, Mike Olsen, or Fadden Racing, visit www.faddenracing.net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
North Haverhill, N.H. (August 10, 2009): Fadden Racing will field two cars at this weekend\u2019s NASCAR Camping World Series East 200-mile event as car owner Mike Olsen gets back behind the wheel of the championship-winning No. 61 to compete in only his second start this season. Jonathan Smith, driver of Fadden Racing\u2019s No. 16 is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,4456,112],"tags":[155,15],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","category-nascar-kn-pro-series","category-new-hampshire","tag-camping-world-series-east","tag-fadden-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}