NASCAR’s Joey Logano Makes New Memories at Old Track which lead to…
This week, 2018 NASCAR Cup Series champion and Middletown native, Joey Logano, paid a visit to the track where he first got his start racing: Silver City Quarter Midget Club in Meriden.
He and dozens of other donors helped the track with some much needed renovations during the off season and the club could finally wave the green flag.
NASCAR’s Joey Logano Makes New Memories at Old Track which lead to…
This track was never going anywhere,” said the track’s board of directors secretary, Mary Trapp. “There’s always going to be kids down here racing, but this was enormous.”
Trapp said the paving for the track was done when she raced there in the 70s. That was one of the renovations. They invited Logano ahead of his NASCAR race this weekend at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway. He took dozens of photos and signed even more autographs, but for everything that the next generation of racers took away, Logano might have gotten the most out of the evening.
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“That’s what it’s about at this level, right? It’s about having fun,” said Logano as he spoke to the crowd of kids and parents. “It’s about being with your family, creating those memories.”
When Logano said those words, he didn’t know he was about to do just that with his own family.
“As soon as he saw other kids on the race track he goes ‘I want to try!’.” Logano’s three-year-old son Hudson was finally ready to rev the engine of his own quarter midget car. He’d sat in the car and been pushed around without an engine, but never wanted to give it a try.
NASCAR’s Joey Logano Makes New Memories at Old Track which lead to…
This week, 2018 NASCAR Cup Series champion and Middletown native, Joey Logano, paid a visit to the track where he first got his start racing: Silver City Quarter Midget Club in Meriden.
He and dozens of other donors helped the track with some much needed renovations during the off season and the club could finally wave the green flag.
NASCAR’s Joey Logano Makes New Memories at Old Track which lead to…
This track was never going anywhere,” said the track’s board of directors secretary, Mary Trapp. “There’s always going to be kids down here racing, but this was enormous.”
Trapp said the paving for the track was done when she raced there in the 70s. That was one of the renovations. They invited Logano ahead of his NASCAR race this weekend at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway. He took dozens of photos and signed even more autographs, but for everything that the next generation of racers took away, Logano might have gotten the most out of the evening.
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“That’s what it’s about at this level, right? It’s about having fun,” said Logano as he spoke to the crowd of kids and parents. “It’s about being with your family, creating those memories.”
When Logano said those words, he didn’t know he was about to do just that with his own family.
“As soon as he saw other kids on the race track he goes ‘I want to try!’.” Logano’s three-year-old son Hudson was finally ready to rev the engine of his own quarter midget car. He’d sat in the car and been pushed around without an engine, but never wanted to give it a try.
