Catching Up: First Year Race Director Brad Lafontaine Settling Into Role At Speedbowl

It’s fair to say the “Getting Know You” phase has concluded between New London-Waterford Speedbowl competitors and first year race director Brad Lafontaine. 

In early April it was announced that Lafontaine, a former NASCAR Modified Tour championship winning crew chief, longtime race car builder and race shop owner, would take over the duties of race director at the New London-Waterford Speedbowl. 

With almost four months in the books in the role, we talked with Brad recently about how things are going at the track. 

“I was told a lot of things,” Lafontaine said. “They’re going to teach me a lot of new swear words. They’re going tell me how bad my mother is and all that stuff. I was in the housing projects for 25 years, my first 25 years of life. And I was in auto recycling all my life, I still own an auto recycling yard. I don’t think you can teach me a lot of swear words. I think I’ve heard them all at my age. I’m just looking for respect. I respect everybody there. I try to talk to them one-on-one. If they call me or we have a talk after the races, I never avoid anybody. I’m there. That’s where I’m going. I’m hoping that we have a bunch of people behind us. We want to make the track good again or else, if it closes, it’s not coming back. We don’t need to see that.” 

To hear plenty more from Lafontaine about his first few months, his plans going forward for changes and much more listen to: Catching Up: First Year Race Director Brad Lafontaine On Settling Into His Role At The Speedbowl

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