(Stafford Springs, CT)—For Monson, MA native Justin Bren, the 2012 NASCAR
\nWhelen All-American Series season at Stafford Motor Speedway cannot arrive
\nfast enough. Bren and his team purchased the Limited Late Model car
\nformerly campaigned by Rob Dow and Rick Lanagan at Stafford, and they
\nbrought the car to the 2011 CARQUEST Fall Final to shake the car down in
\npreparation for making a run at Rookie of the Year honors in 2012.
\n
\n\u201cI can\u2019t wait for next year,\u201d said Bren. \u201cI thought the Fall Final went
\npretty well for us. The first practice I went out, I just tried to make
\nsure that nothing broke on the car, and then I started getting on it and we
\npicked up time in every session that we went out. We started the day out
\nabout 3 seconds behind the fastest car and we ended the day 1 second behind.
\nSomeone had given me some hand me down tires that had about 200 laps on them
\nfor the practice, so we\u2019re looking forward to next year. The rear end broke
\nin the car so we weren\u2019t able to race in the feature, which was
\ndisappointing because Jim Peterson had given me some good tires to use and I
\nwas planning on passing a couple of cars. But the big thing for us was
\ngetting our feet wet for next season and we definitely weren\u2019t the slowest
\ncar. All in all, it was a good weekend for us other than the feature, the
\ncar was fast, it felt comfortable, and everyone was telling me I did a good
\njob.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Bren will challenge for Rookie of the Year honors when Stafford Motor
\nSpeedway drops the green flag on the 2012 season, Bren will be a rookie in
\nevery sense of the word. Prior to his Fall Final foray this past October,
\nBren had never before sat behind the wheel of a racecar. But his father
\nWarren has raced all up and down the east coast for over 30 years and Bren
\ncan lean on his father for experience and guidance as he gets ready to take
\non his first full season behind the wheel.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Fall Final was my first time driving a racecar,\u201d said Bren. \u201cBut I
\ngrew up around racing, my dad has raced from New Smyrna all the way to
\nOxford, and he ran on the Modified Tour in the \u201880s, so I\u2019ve always had the
\nbug to race. My dad actually got started racing at Stafford in the
\nSportsman division, so starting out at Stafford is a family tradition I
\nguess, the apple definitely didn\u2019t fall far from the tree. It\u2019s definitely
\na big help having my dad around with all the experience he has.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bren and his #66 team are currently going through and updating their car for
\ntheir 2012 debut, which will come at the 41st Annual CARQUEST Tech-Net
\nSpring Sizzler, scheduled for April 27-29.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now, we\u2019re pretty busy going through the car and we\u2019re updating a few
\nthings,\u201d said Bren. \u201cWe have a new engine coming from R.A.D. Automachine,
\nwe have a new transmission, and we have a new rear end, so I\u2019m really
\nlooking forward to the new season. My friends won\u2019t let me hear the end of
\nthe broken rear end at the Fall Final, so I can\u2019t wait to get back on the
\ntrack and show people what we can do and have some fun while we\u2019re doing it.
\nWe\u2019d like to win Rookie of the Year, run in the top-10 all year long, and
\nhopefully pick up a win before the season is over.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bren is also thankful for the sponsors that he had on his car while making
\nhis Stafford debut at the Fall Final this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had some great sponsors on the car, and we couldn\u2019t have done this
\nwithout their support,\u201d said Bren. \u201cI have to thank Tibbetts Optical of
\nMonson, BerteraChevy.com, Hood Medic, and Kenny Gran and Granite Wholesales.
\nMy level of gratitude was at an all-time high and I can\u2019t thank each of them
\nenough for helping us out. We\u2019re working on getting those guys to come back
\non board with us for next year and hopefully we can attract a couple of new
\nsponsors who would like to get on our car. Everything we can get
\nsponsorship wise is a big help to us, especially since we\u2019re a small budget
\nteam.\u201d<\/p>\n
Should Bren run into any troubles on the track during the 2012 season, he
\ncan always fall back on his classroom experience as he is currently
\nattending Springfield Technical College with plans to transfer to UMASS
\nAmherst after his second year and he is majoring in mechanical engineering.
\n\u201cI\u2019m majoring in mechanical engineering and right now we\u2019re learning about
\nhow to calculate forces and springs with cars going around an embanked
\ntrack,\u201d said Bren. \u201cIt makes me chuckle that what I\u2019m learning about in
\nschool is something that I\u2019ll actually be doing on the track in a couple
\nmore months.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bren\u2019s quest for Rookie of the Year honors and the 2012 Limited Late Model
\nseason will kick-off with the 41st Annual CARQUEST Tech-Net Spring Sizzler
\non April 27-April 29, 2012 at Stafford.<\/p>\n
For more information, contact the Stafford Motor Speedway track office at (Stafford Springs, CT)—For Monson, MA native Justin Bren, the 2012 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series season at Stafford Motor Speedway cannot arrive fast enough. Bren and his team purchased the Limited Late Model car formerly campaigned by Rob Dow and Rick Lanagan at Stafford, and they brought the car to the 2011 CARQUEST Fall Final to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[196,126,197],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-8557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-new-england","category-stafford-connecticut","tag-stafford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8557","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=8557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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