{"id":18209,"date":"2015-03-13T01:05:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T05:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=18209"},"modified":"2015-03-14T11:21:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T15:21:55","slug":"jeremy-lavoie-moving-up-to-limited-late-models-at-stafford-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/jeremy-lavoie-moving-up-to-limited-late-models-at-stafford-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Lavoie Moving Up to Limited Late Models at Stafford Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ksfnlsdgs\"<\/a>(Stafford Springs, CT)—After taking a year away from racing, Windsor Locks native Jeremy Lavoie is ready to get back in the saddle at Stafford Speedway. Lavoie got started in the DARE Stock division 2012 and in 2013 he won 4 races and challenged for the championship. The 2015 season will see Lavoie move up to the Limited Late Model division and challenge for R.A.D. Automachine \/ T\/A Engines Rookie of the Year honors.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited to get back in the car,\u201d said Lavoie. \u201cI\u2019m a little nervous, but I\u2019m sure that will all go away once I get strapped in. I figured I already had a couple of years experience in the DARE Stocks and we had a pretty successful second year, so I thought I\u2019d make the transition and move up to the standard transmission and a higher class of competition and see how we roll. I don\u2019t plan on being able to come in and light up the field, but we can learn a lot.\u201d
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In his time away from the track Lavoie purchased a car and engine along with attending races to help get a feel of what to expect when he makes his Limited Late Model debut.
\n\u201cWe bought Joe Nogiec\u2019s 2013 car and have been building it up from the roll cage and we got a used 602 crate engine that has been refreshed,\u201d said Lavoie. \u201cThe car is about 80% done and we\u2019re hoping to run the full season. If something happens to the car, we may have to miss a week or two, but we want to run the entire season. I tried to get to as many races last year as possible and I got the itch and wanted to get something going so we bought the car around May. It\u2019s tough to be a race fan but I tried to take notice of who was fast week in and week out, which guys like to race where on the rack, and just get an overall feel for the division before I started racing with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lavoie has his sights set squarely on picking up his first Limited Late Model victory and also challenging for the $1,000 Rookie of the Year bonus from R.A.D. Automachine and T\/A Engines. Lavoie won a single race in his rookie DARE Stock season in 2012 and he followed that up with a four win season in 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy big goal is to get my first Limited Late Model win,\u201d said Lavoie. \u201cI know that is aiming high for my first season because the division is competitive with a lot of strong cars, but that\u2019s something I\u2019d really like to strive for. I feel like we won\u2019t be too far off. I think what we\u2019ve learned in the DARE Stock division will help us out and there\u2019s always room for improvement. We\u2019ll find out during the practice day how good we are but I don\u2019t expect to be too far off. I wouldn\u2019t expect to be at the same level we were at in the DARE Stock and we\u2019re going to do everything we can to improve each week. I have to thank R.A.D. and T\/A for putting the Rookie bonus money up for the Limited Late Models. I\u2019m sure there will be a couple other rookies coming in this year so we\u2019ll have our hands full but we\u2019re definitely going to be shooting to win that bonus and we\u2019ll give it our best shot. I\u2019d also like to thank Mr. Rooter and New England Racing Fuel for their involvement with the contingency program for the Limited Late Model teams. It\u2019s really great to have the support of those companies.\u201d
\nAs Lavoie gets ready for his Ltd. Late Model debut, he already has a good idea of the challenge he will face in going from the DARE Stock car to the Ltd. Late Model car and the goals that he has in mind for his rookie season. Lavoie is also in sponsor search mode.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Limited Late Model is more driver skill,\u201d said Lavoie. \u201cYou kind of drive the DARE car aggressively but with the Limited car, because it has more power, you have to feather the throttle more and it takes more skill to get around the track. A successful year would be to win rookie of the year and to get a couple of wins. Keeping the car in one piece will also be key for us as well as learning about the car and taking good notes. I\u2019d like to be in the top-5 in points at the end of the year, but realistically it will probably be somewhere in the top-10. We\u2019re diligently looking for some sponsors. We have a few prospects, but nothing set in stone as of yet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Stafford Springs, CT)—After taking a year away from racing, Windsor Locks native Jeremy Lavoie is ready to get back in the saddle at Stafford Speedway. Lavoie got started in the DARE Stock division 2012 and in 2013 he won 4 races and challenged for the championship. The 2015 season will see Lavoie move up to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[196,197],"tags":[15708,15677],"class_list":["post-18209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-stafford-connecticut","tag-jeremy-lavoie","tag-stafford-springs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18209","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18215,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18209\/revisions\/18215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}