As Championship Weekend Starts, One Racer Already Takes Home Crown

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His second season of competitive racing, third-generation racer Jarett Andretti is again a champion. The 18-year-old N.C. State freshman recently won the USAC Eastern Ford Focus Midget Series Pavement Championship. He did so by winning five feature events this summer including one at the famed Hickory (N.C.) Motor Speedway. Andretti was only 37 points behind the national champion in the series. He finished runner-up even after not competing in all the events in his Tracy Trotter-owned No. 11 Calico Coatings/Window World Ford Focus Midget. This is Andretti’s second championship after winning the TaG Karting Championship last season.

“It’s great to have won the pavement championship with this team,” said Andretti. “My owner (Tracy Trotter) gave me a great car all season and I just learned a ton. It’s really cool to win anything, but this is my first open wheel championship in oval racing. I’ll remember this one for a long time.”

Andretti spent much of his summer and fall traveling between his home in Mooresville (N.C.) to his family roots in Indianapolis (Ind.) where he also competed on both dirt and pavement in the Midwest USAC Ford Focus Midget Series. The son of winning NASCAR, IndyCar and professional sports car driver John Andretti, Jarett also made his USAC National Mopar Midget Series debut winning his first heat race at the Indianapolis Speedrome before rain cancelled the feature event.

“I’ve just learned so much and feel like a better racer,” continued Jarett. “Especially going to Indiana throughout the summer and racing at places my father raced. That’s pretty memorable and I’m looking forward to doing a lot more racing in both Indiana and North Carolina next year.”

Andretti will now continue his studies as a college freshman and prepare for the next race season. He is still looking for corporate partners to help him compete in various sanctioning bodies in 2012 as he continues to move up the racing ladder.

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