Jody Lavender on Top of NASCAR East Series

Mooresville, NC (07/02/09) - Hartsville native Jody Lavender is enjoying the best year of his racing career.  Jody started racing at age 16 in the Mini-Stock class at the Florence I-95 and Myrtle Beach speedways.  Today he is racing in the NASCAR Camping World East Series and is leading the points chase by a slim 18 points.  He knows it won’t be easy but his goal is to win the championship.

In the last race at New Hampshire Speedway, he finished 5th.  The winner was driving a Joe Gibbs race car, second place was a Michael Waltrip race car, third was a Dave Davis race car, and 4th was the Richard Childress race car.  Jody said, “This is a very competitive series and we are competing against some of the best teams in racing.  We don’t have a big sponsor and have only 1 full-time employee.  We want to thank Jo-Jo Enterprises, Hartsville Mini-Storage and some local H & R Block offices for their support.”

Jody also owns “Custom Racing Chassis” in Mooresville, NC where they build and repair race cars of all types.  Jody said, “I think my chassis business helps my racing and I think my racing helps my chassis business.  We also have a small team with mostly volunteers but they are very hard working and car owner, Jimmy Burgess, wants this championship as much as I do.  This is only his second year in running a full series schedule but he’s done a great job since.  He lives and works in Massachusetts and the race shop is in Maine.  He keeps the road hot back and forth.”

There are only 5 races remaining (Thompson CT, Adirondack NY, Lime Rock CT, Loudon NH, and Dover, DE) and according to Jody, “We’re having a good year and with a little luck we will still be on the top at the end of the season.”

For more information, go to www.jodylavender.com, www.eastseries.com, and www.localracing.nascar.com.
 

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