New Sponsor; Major Award for Chris Young
(Calverton, N.Y.) - 16-year-old racer Chris Young has a lot to be excited about going into his sophomore season. First, he now can remove the proverbial "rookie stripe" from his back, as he has now completed a full year in racing and has two wins and a lot of progress to show for it. Young also goes into the season having picked up one of the highest honors offered by his NASCAR Driver Development Motorsports Management partner, Team Full Throttle. At the recent TFT Awards Banquet in Charlotte, N.C., Young was awarded the Thomas H. Baker Memorial Award, a "Driver of the Year" Award given in honor of the father of TFT Founder / CEO Tom Baker.
"We were proud to honor Chris with this award," Baker said following the banquet, which featured Long Island native and now North Carolina Business Coach Dave Ferguson as its guest speaker. "Chris worked very hard in his first year on the track, picking up two wins and showing tremendous improvement as the year went on. He is an outstanding young man who shows tremendous leadership ability and my father would have been proud to hand him this award."
Young plans to race in the six night INEX Legends Winternationals in Orlando, FL February 8th through the 13th at the Orlando SpeedWorld. He won his first feature there last season, and is hoping for a championship this time around. "We finished in the top five in every race but one last year, so we'd like to do the same again this year and hopefully win the series championship," the smiling young racer said. "It's been an awesome winter, adding Ray The Plumber to our marketing team and picking up the award at the TFT Banquet, and now I can't wait to get back on the track and continue my learning process as a racer."
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