Spencer Davis Seeking SpeedFest Success Story
13-Year-Old to Battle Short Track Champions at WCS
SpeedFest 2012 at Georgia’s Watermelon Capital Speedway will kick off a busy racing season for 13-year-old Spencer Davis. The Dawsonville, GA driver has an ambitious schedule of roughly 40 races ahead of him in 2012 after a successful rookie season in the Southeastern Pro Late Model scene.
But before momentum can be built up for his sophomore season in the Late Model ranks, a strong run in the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour portion of SpeedFest 2012, the Rheem 150 at Watermelon Capital, has to go into the books on January 29th.
“If we can have a good run at SpeedFest, it will start the year off right,” said Davis, who will be driving the CORE Race Products number-29 in the event. “It’ll give us a good outlook on the rest of the season.”
The SpeedFest event was recently moved to Watermelon Capital from Lanier National Speedway. Lanier is just a short drive from Davis’ race shop and is his home track where he has logged thousands of laps in his young career. The venue change means going to a new track for the first time instead of a place he knows like the back of his hand.
“I’ve never raced at Watermelon Capital before, but my dad has,” added Davis, whose father Scott is a former Southeastern Late Model competitor. “It’s a little bit bigger than Lanier. You barely hit the (rev limiter) chip when you run a good lap when he used to race there, so it sounds like a fun track. It’s not really like anything that I’ve raced at before, but hopefully we’ll still run just as good as I think we would’ve at Lanier.
“My goal is to go out there and have a good showing and hopefully a top-five finish.”
At SpeedFest and throughout his 2012 season, Davis will be competing against drivers several times his age and with far more experience. Battling with those drivers each week will only help his progression as a driver.
“I’m going to get a lot of experience racing against those guys. They’re not going to give you much room, but they are going to race you like they’ll race everyone else. I’ll learn how to race them just like they’ll learn how to race me.”
The Rheem 150 portion of SpeedFest 2012 weekend will go green on Sunday, January 29th.
