Fearn, Rocco Team Up for Waterford
Owner, driver return to Connecticut track in new Crazy Horse chassis
SOUTH PARIS, Maine – 2010 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series national champion Keith Rocco of Wallingford, Conn., will return to the seat of a Crazy Horse Racing chassis this season in a car owned by Scott Fearn of Wilbraham, Mass.
The two will drive the No. 1 Critical Signs/Mr. Rooter/Fearn Electric Toyota in weekly NASCAR competition at Waterford Speedbowl in Waterford, Conn.
“The full season – that’s the plan,” Fearn said. “We’ve really only run about 15 races together the last few years, but we’re going to give it a shot this year.”
Rocco has finished in the Top-2 in the final NASCAR Whelen All-American Series standings in each of the last four seasons, including runner-up finishes in 2009, 2011 and 2012 and five straight Connecticut state NASCAR championships. Though he’s best known for his Modified exploits, he’s won roughly a quarter of his Late Model starts the last two seasons in Fearn’s No. 1.
“We’ve been doing stuff on and off together for years,” Rocco said. “I want to race anything I can get it, and Scott and I have had a lot of fun racing together.”
Fearn had a new Crazy Horse Racing chassis built this winter to replace the ones that won four races over the last two seasons at Waterford. After selling two Late Models at the end of last year, Fearn turned to Crazy Horse to build this one.
“They’re great people at Crazy Horse, just great people to work with,” Fearn said. “We’ve done some stuff in the past with them. They’d put front clips on the cars we had and some other things.
“Really, when it comes to these Late Models, who else are you going to go to?”
Rocco plans to continue running SK Modifieds weekly at all three Connecticut short tracks – Waterford, Thompson International Speedway and Stafford Motor Speedway – while also running the Valenti Modified Racing Series part-time. On Saturday nights, though, he’ll be wheeling a Late Model that reminds him a lot of his usual open-wheel cars.
“They’re a lot of fun to drive,” Rocco said of the Crazy Horse Racing chassis. “They react more like a Modified than any other Late Model I’ve been in.”
Sources; Travis Barrett/Crazy Horse Racing PR