(1\/30\/12 Team Report)
\nDover New Hampshire\u2019s Wayne Helliwell Jr\u2019s off season has been anything but down time as he launched a new website, racing apparel, and plans for an upcoming season of 50 plus races in 2012.<\/p>\n
Helliwell\u2019s launch of www.waynehelliwelljr.com features full coverage of both the Bruce Bernhardt owned No.27NH Late Model and the Witkum Brothers racing No.21 350 Small Block Supermodified teams. Helliwell joked, \u201cIt\u2019s time to get with the program, it\u2019s 2012 after all. I\u2019m a little slow with all this technology stuff. We are really excited about the new site. It\u2019s been something in the works for a while I hope everyone enjoys it. Josh (Holt of www.driverwebsites.com) Jason (Lubin) did a great job with the site. It has a great look to it. We tried to think outside the box and do something a little edgy with it. It turned out great.\u201d The site features weekly press releases, finishing results, a store front where the new Late Model Punisher apparel can be purchased, the upcoming 2012 schedule, and much more.
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\nThe website isn\u2019t the only off-track project Helliwell has been working on. Also new for 2012 is the ASI Race Wear (www.asiwear.com) \u201cPunisher\u201d themed Late Model shirts, long sleeve and sweatshirts.”We\u2019ve been talking about doing a ‘real’ shirt for while now. We wanted to do something that no one has around here; something that people would really want. I don\u2019t know where the punisher theme came from but I\u2019m glad we did it. They turned out better than I could have imagined,\u201d said Helliwell. The new apparel features the Bruce Bernhardt Motorsports No. 27NH Late Model machine and is available for purchase on the new website and trackside from the team. <\/p>\n
Helliwell competed in his first full season of the American Canadian Tour (ACT) series in 2011. It was with consistency and strong finishes that took the team to a second place in series points along with a second Ford Blue Oval Challenge championship; winning the program put on by Ford Racing two years in a row. Plans for 2012 so far have 52 races on the calendar. The Bruce Bernhardt owned EKeys4Cars \/ Unique Ford team plans to race full time with the ACT series as well as run weekly at the newly NASCAR sanctioned Canaan Fair Speedway in Canaan, NH. ACT\u2019s early season Sunday shows will allow the team to race more than half the season with both the series and the tracks weekly program. The first overlapping event comes on August 11th when the ACT series heads north of the border to Sanair Super Speedway in St-Pie,QC. \u201cIt just comes down to wanting to race every weekend; when the time comes it will be tough decision either way. We\u2019ll see how it plays out. Whatever makes the most sense is the direction we will go in. It sounds like a lot of races but we did 48 in 2011 and I felt like we could have raced more\u201d Helliwell said. <\/p>\n
Helliwell\u2019s weekly racing won\u2019t stop with the Late Model as he plans to defend his 2011 Lee USA Speedway track championship. \u201cWe are excited to defend our title with the super. We\u2019ve made some changes to make the car even better and I can\u2019t wait to get started.\u201d He will once again pilot the Ed and Bobby Witkum owned Scherbon Consolidated Inc 350 Small Block Supermodified. Wayne will compete in his second full season in the open wheeled division.<\/p>\n
Heading into 2012, Wayne feels the Late Model team has unfinished business at hand. Visiting victory lane with the ACT tour is number one on their hit list, \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to getting back to these tracks a second time.\u201d The team visited more than half the tracks on the ACT schedule for the first time in 2011. \u201cWe were good at places I didn\u2019t expect to be; the Canada races, Devils Bowl (before we went in the mud bogging), and Beech Ridge. At the same time there were tracks I thought we would be better at and were not. We showed we can be consistent, now it\u2019s time close the deal. We learned so much running with the series last year; I think it showed as the season progressed.\u201d It\u2019s the ACT tour opening event, the Governor\u2019s Cup 150 at Lee USA Speedway in Lee, NH they are looking forward to the most stating, \u201cI can\u2019t think of a better place I\u2019d like to get my first tour win at, that\u2019s home for us. We\u2019re excited to get back there with the series.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Pelham, NH based Late Model team will start their season at Waterford Speedbowl in Waterford, CT during the multi day Budweiser Blastoff event. Helliwell took home a victory in 2011 at the Speedbowl during a test session of a brand new car. \u201cIt\u2019s a good way to start the session for us; we are looking forward to going back.” said Wayne. <\/p>\n
After a successful 2011 campaign Helliwell is quick to point out both teams have high expectations for the 2012. \u201cYou always strive to be better; sure last year was great but the past is the past. Both teams are more prepared than we\u2019ve ever been. The season can\u2019t start soon enough.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(1\/30\/12 Team Report) Dover New Hampshire\u2019s Wayne Helliwell Jr\u2019s off season has been anything but down time as he launched a new website, racing apparel, and plans for an upcoming season of 50 plus races in 2012. Helliwell\u2019s launch of www.waynehelliwelljr.com features full coverage of both the Bruce Bernhardt owned No.27NH Late Model and the […]<\/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":[126,112],"tags":[12348],"class_list":["post-8881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-england","category-new-hampshire","tag-wayne-helliwell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881","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=8881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}