"Sprint Car Spotlight: Jessica Anderson"

Jessica Anderson is a 22 year old from Berwick, PA. She is currently a student at the University Of North Carolina at Charlotte, studying Mechanical Engineering with her focus on motorsports.

Jessica began her racing career in 2006 in the 270 Junior Micro Division where she was awarded Most Improved Driver at her home track, Selinsgrove Raceway Park. 2007 saw Jessica move up to 270 Regular Micros,  where she earned Rookie Of The Year at Selinsgrove Raceway Park. Natural progression saw Jessica move up to the 358 sprint car class, where she earned Rookie Of The Year, and became the first woman to do so.

Jessica currently competes in her family-owned #71 Maxim in all three of Pennsylvania’s sprint car classes- 358s, 360s and 410s. Away from the race track, she enjoys snowboarding, swimming and running. She also credits her speed secret to her favorite foods-ice cream and pizza.

Her Supporters Include:

 

A.J. Walters Trucking

Anderson Ice and Oil

CMC Powder Coating

Episota Electric

Jensen Engine Technology

S&S Racing Fuels
Whitebread Enterprises
Zemco Speed Shop

"Sprint Car Spotlight: Shayle Bade"

 For this week’s “Sprint Car Spotlight”, we are going to introduce you to Lincoln, Nebraska’s Shayle Bade! Keepig with the recent theme, we are going to let Shayle tell you about herself!

I have been racing since i was 8 years old. I started in Go-Karts, in 2007 I had my most prestigious win. Being the first female to win a Jr. Kahuna leading all 50 laps. A few years after mastering Go-Karts around the mid-west my dad and I decided it was time to move up to something more. In 2009 we made the jump to Micro sprints where we raced all over the mid-west competing in some of the biggest shows we could find. We took rookie of the year, was voted crowd favorite and picking up multiple wins and competing with the best of best in micro sprints for 4 years i wanted to keep moving up and living my dream. This year for 2013 we made the huge jump to a 305 Sprint car. We have a great team for this year and can't wait to see what this year will bring.

Her Supporters Include:

 

American Drywall

Awlin

Butch Bade

MDR Racing & Customs

Onyx Wrap

Real Nebraska Girls

Rown Web Design

Special thanks to: My Grandma Smokey, and everyone who has made my dreams come true.

"Future Of The Sport: Brianna Mahon"

We are going to take a bit of a different approach with this “Future Of The Sport” feature. Brianna Mahon is a little older than most “Future Of The Sport” type drivers, but we feel everyone would enjoy her story and introduce a side of things not many see. She is a true rookie of the 600 cc micro division, even though her career path has been an unconventional one. 

Brianna Mahon hails from east Central Illinois. She is 23 and has a business degree, while currently in cosmetology school. She is also a personal trainer and works with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes as an instructor for their motocross camps. Brianna has been instructing for 7 years now and I love every minute of it. She began racing motocross in 1999 and moved her way up through the amateur ranks and eventually up to the pro ranks. Brianna has broken over 12 bones throughout the years with many other injuries along the way.

She holds two national titles from her amateur days and was able to complete one full year as a pro. In 2011 while training for her second year racing pro, Brianna was landed on by an out of control rider on a very big jump and he shattered the joints in her wrist and thumb. She had two reconstructive surgeries and was in casts for about a year and a half. She’s lost a lot of her movement, which has hindered her from returning to racing motocross. She still rides and trains kids but can never compete at the level she once did, which leads her to the world of micros.

Brianna grew up watching car races and micros, and never really thought that it was something she wanted to do. However, when she got hurt and could no longer ride, she needed an outlet, something to get her back in the racing world. So last fall her family went out, bought a car, borrowed gear and Brianna jumped on the track. Her first time ever in a car she won everything she raced. It was history from there. Brianna knew she wanted to pursue this sport and see where she could make it.

Brianna has raced every weekend since then and has been very consistent, always finishing either on the podium or in the top 5. Brianna has jumped out there with some of the fastest guys and POWRi champs and held her own and ran with them. She says, “Its such a learning experience and everything is so different from Motocross that it is a lot to take in, but I am just taking it weekend by weekend and all the advice that everyone is giving me and trying to put it to use.” Brianna hope to move up to POWRi by the fall and start doing a little more traveling to new tracks. 

Her Supporters Include:

C& F Industrial Enterprises 

Dust & Sons of Sullivan 

FCA Motocross 

GoPole 

Handlin's School of Cosmetology 

Jeff Mahon Equipment Services Inc 

MotoFab 

R&B Powdercoating 

Sign-A-Rama 

Supertrapp 

YS Designs