Father / Daughter Combination To Share The #101 RacingAwareness.com Entry At Berlin Raceway For 2014
Veteran Joe Bush to come out of retirement to run Super Late Model ride with Daughter, Lauren Bush
(Special from RacingAwareness.com)
November 25, 2013
Hastings, Michigan (November 25, 2013) – When it was announced that Lauren Bush would join the RacingAwareness.com Supporting Helen DeVos Children's Hospital Team for the 2014 racing season as a teammate to Berlin Raceway veteran, Dave Lake and compete for the
track's Template Super Late Model Series Championship, it wasn't expected to have another teammate added to the stable.
A driver who knows Bush perhaps better than anyone anywhere; Her Father, Joe Bush.
The veteran Hastings, Michigan driver, a former three-time Track Champion at Berlin (1992, 1993 & 2004) in the tracks
Outlaw Super Late Models division, will return to the driver's seat for the first time since the 2011 racing season and
compete in select events within Berlin's Template Super Late Models Series driving the #101 RacingAwareness.com
Supporting Helen DeVos Children's Hospital machine while his daughter is on the sidelines for the first half of the year as
she will be on leave preparing for an even bigger role in her life; welcoming a new racecar driver into the world.
“Nick Sokolowski, a crew member for the H.S. Die Race Team in the ARCA/CRA Super Series; My fiancé, and I are
excited for this blessing. There is much work to be done to prepare for 2014 in racing and its events, jobs and at home. We
know it will not be easy; however, we look forward to welcoming a little racer and getting back into the race car,” said
Lauren.
She will resume her driver role in the #101 beginning in June of 2014 while her Father, Joe Bush, who made three starts in
what is now the NASCAR Nationwide Series as well as a single start in what is now the NASCAR Camping World Trucks
Series, is looking forward to climbing back behind the wheel.
The 47-year-old, also a former winner in the Main Event Racing Series has seen the majority of his success in a racecar
within the Outlaw Super Late Model ranks, but is looking forward to running a Template Super Late Model again.
“Berlin Raceway is known for its talent. I look forward to mixing it up and getting the #101 RacingAwareness.com team into victory lane, more than once,” Joe Bush said. “We intend to keep it exciting for the fans and especially for our kids. “I can’t say enough about the RacingAwareness.com Team. I am excited to be back and share in the ride and the journey with Lauren both on and off the track.” Joe Bush ended
Joe Bush does have a vast amount of experience in the Template Super Late Model world having competed in select events within the old ARTGO Challenge Series from 1986-1989 as well as the ICEMAN SuperCar Series from 1994-1997. He also raced in eight events in the old ASA AC-Delco Challenge Series between 1993-1997 and he's also made two appearances in the ARCA/CRA Super Series, both in 2011 and both at Berlin including his last appearance overall behind the wheel of a racecar on October 8, 2011.
As for Lauren and when she returns to racing on a regular basis, the plans are for the Hastings, Michigan driver to compete in the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Presented by Chevrolet Performance on a part-time basis. Bush has made five career JEGS/CRA starts with two top 10 finishes to her credit, including a career high eighth at the legendary high-banks of Winchester Speedway in Winchester, Indiana in 2011.
As for hers and her Dad's new team for the 2014 season, RacingAwareness.com is a 501c3 charity, and the team donates its earnings to the Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital Foundation. The team was created in 2010 and has raised over $100,000 since its inception. The past two seasons. Dave Lake has driven the primary Super Late Model for the team and finished fourth this season in the series points while he was seventh in 2012.
The 20-year-old Bush is a third generation driver who started her racing career at 14 years old, competing in the Arena Racing Series at the Delta Plex Arena before progressing to a full-sized stock car at Berlin Raceway in 2009 in the tracks old Young Guns division where she finished sixth in points. She also made her first career start in CRA competition that season when she competed with the CRA Late Model Sportsman Series at Winchester and finished 15th in her first start there.
One year later in 2010, she moved up to the Pro Stocks division and finished fifth in the points standings. She also made two more starts in the CRA Late Model Sportsman Series at Toledo Speedway in Toledo, Ohio and back at Winchester that October and picked up finishes of 11th and 13th respectively.
The 2011 season saw Bush make the biggest move of her career as she jumped behind the wheel of a Template Late Model competing at her home track of Berlin as well as making select appearance in the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour. She finished eighth in the points at Berlin in the first year for the tracks new Template Super Late Models Series. In 2012 she just missed the top 10 in points as she was 11th, but did garner her career high finish in a Late Model as she finished fifth on September 1, 2012 during the Inaugural Chet Championship Weekend at her home track.
Mark your calendars - December 13, from 6:00 am – 6:00 pm, tune in to STAR105.7 FM, for the final push of the Think Outside Yourself Radiothon supporting Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital. The entire RacingAwareness.com Team will be on hand manning the phones taking your donations.
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