Lauren lives in southern Chesterfield and plans to run a limited schedule with her modified at Southside Speedway, Langley Speedway and the Rolling Thunder Modified Tour.
She has also received help from Thomas Stinson, last year’s Modified Track Champion at Southside Speedway. Members from his crew are helping her in the pits. Edgerton has set high goals for her future in racing and hopes to advance as far as she can go. She may one day be racing with her favorite NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon. She is driving the #7 this year and her main sponsor ‘Consolidated Repair Services’ is displayed on the car.
Lauren Edgerton’s Ucar racing statistics can be found at her website ‘illusion-racing.com’.
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Twenty-one-year-old Lauren Edgerton prepares for a practice run at Southside Speedway.
Newark, DE - “Lady and Gentleman Start Your Engines.” For the first
time in Rolling Thunder Modified history, a female is expected to compete
with the Rolling Thunder Modifieds at Newport Speedway in Newport, Tennessee
on Saturday, May 21, 2011.
Lauren Edgerton, Owner and Driver of the #7 modified and Illusion Racing
(www.illusion-racing.com), is scheduled to make the haul from Chesterfield,
Virginia to Newport, Tennessee to compete.
Lauren is the 2009 East Carolina Speedway Rookie of the Year and UCAR Rookie
of the Year, The 2010 Shenandoah Speedway Driver of the Year and the 2010
Shenandoah Speedway UCAR Champion. In Lauren’s four years from 2007 –
2010 she has compiled 18 Wins, 14 Poles, 51 Top 5’s and 73 Top 10’s in 100
starts.
Rich Peters, President of the Rolling Thunder Modifieds describes Lauren’s
trip to Newport as “an honor” and has encouraged female as well as
African-American athletes to compete in the Rolling Thunder Modifieds
Touring Series.
The Rolling Thunder Modifieds (www.rtm-racing.com) will compete for the
first time ever in four different states, Virginia, North Carolina,
Tennessee and South Carolina, in the same year during 2011. RTM is a
regional modified racing tour which competes on asphalt oval tracks in this
region. The cars are IMCA-type Modifieds which use 8” Hoosier racing
tires.
For more information about the Rolling Thunder Modified’s visit to Newport,
Tennessee, please go to www.newportmotorspeedway.com. Last year’s
winner, Trevor Edwards, will be returning to defend his crown after
finishing 2nd in the 2010 RTM Championship and being named 2010 RTM Rookie
of the Year.
Any questions should be directed to Rich Peters at 302-894-2152. The
Rolling Thunder Modifieds are owned and operated by Silverhawk Motorsports,
LLC (a Delaware LLC), based in Newark, DE.
Edgerton moves up to Modified series, dreams of racing in NASCAR series
Twenty-one-year-old Lauren Edgerton jumped up to the modified division this year. After four years driving in the Ucar division, which is the four cylinder, front wheel drive cars, she is behind the wheel of an open wheeled modified which has a Chevy 400 horsepower engine and reaches much higher speeds. Edgerton left a very impressive record in the Ucar division with 100 starts, 18 wins, 14 poles, 51 top five finishes, and 73 top tens at eight different tracks in Virginia and North Carolina. Last year she won the Shenandoah Speedway Ucar Championship as well as Sportsmanship of the Year. Edgerton not only has excelled in racing but also was able to earn a Degree in Mechanical Engineering at VCU over the past three years. She now works a full time job as an engineer and works on her racecar almost daily. Her parents have always been supportive of her racing ambitions that began at age 14. Edgerton’s dad bought a go cart to make an attempt at racing but gave it up when he found her to be a better driver.
“Dad is always in the pits helping and offering support, and Mom is usually in the stands cheering me on,” she said.
