Truckers Ready to Rumble Through New England
The 2013 New England Truck Series will kick off their 2013 season on April 6th at Waterford. It will kick off a 13 race schedule for the series. They will make five appearances at Monadnock and Waterford. They will go to the Thompson Speedway twice and Stafford once. The New England Truck Series will close out their 2013 season at Thompson Speedway on World Series Weekend.
The race at Stafford will be a special race for the competitors as it will be Shirley Lindeman Memorial. Shirley Lindeman is the mother of multi time champion in the Series Andy Lindeman. Shirley would always greet the drivers and wish them luck before the race and always would ask the race how they did. The Shirley Lindeman Memorial race was held at Monadnock last season. The race will be held at the Fall Final Weekend at Stafford on Saturday September 28th.
Duane Noll had a dominating season last year and won the 2012 Championship. Noll will be back to defend his title. Glen Noll the 2012 Rookie Of The Year in the series will also be back as well as some competitors. Lorraine Pard is the series director of the New England Truck Series. She also feels that at the first race that there will be some trucks from Long Island area that run at the Riverhead Raceway will be a part of it. For the first race at Waterford we could see Chris and Roger Turbush. Later on in the year we could see Keith Rotzi come up and race as well as Matt Odwazny. In the new list of rookies, Tony Lafo, Pete Cayne, Brandon Chase, Danny Butler along with a few more blending in at the last moment.
The 2013 New England Truck Series will begin at the Waterford Speedbowl on Saturday April 6th. The trucks will have their qualifying heat races along with their feature on Saturday night.
For more info on the New England Truck Series go to: www.newenglandtruckseries.com
Sources: Lorraine Pard/NETS PR