Open wheel racing beckons for D.J. Burnham.
D.J. Burnham celebrates a LImited Late Model victory at Stafford Motor Speedway (Photo: Stafford Speedway)
The East Hartford driver will make the jump in 2014 from the Limited Late Model division at Stafford Speedway to the SK Light Modified divison.
“I hope to run towards the front of the pack, Burnham said in a release. “I know at the start of the season we’re not going to set the world on fire, but I’m expecting to be competitive by the middle to end of the year. We’d like to win a race too, that would be nice for us. We’re planning on running the full year. I really have to thank my Mom and Dad for putting this together for me. I always thought we were going to move up to Late Model and it was about halfway through the season we started talking about a modified and next thing you know, there was a modified in the garage. It doesn’t really matter to me, as long as I’m on the track it’s fine with me. Anything that my dad and brother want to put together for me, I’ll drive it. I’m a little nervous but I’m more excited than anything. We like building cars during the winter, that’s what we have fun doing.”
Burnham joined the ranks of the Limited Late Model division at Stafford in 2011 and had six victories over the division the last three years and finished in the top-five in the standings each year.
“This will be my first time driving a modified,” Burnham said. “I drove Joey [Ferrigno’s] car from the tech area back to his trailer once last year and that was the only experience I have driving a modified so far. It felt like it was a lot wider car than the Limited Late Model and it was definitely different being able to see the tires.”
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