For Travis Fisher, hard work has paid off in his 10 years at the local short track racing level. He began to see the fruits to his labor in 2007, when he scored his first track championship at Mountain Speedway (now Evergreen Raceway Park) located in Pennsylvania racing the 4-Cylinder division, the same track in which his father Larry holds the all-time record in wins since 1988 in the Late Model division.
Travis has since worked his way into the Late Model ranks, claiming a championship at his new local track in New York in 2010. Travis said now that his first Late Model Championship is out of the way, he can focus on winning races even if it means tearing up a car, instead of just keeping out of trouble to stay near the top of the points.
He will be starting off the season at Evergreen Raceway Park in their weekly Late Model shows before travelling to CNB Bank Raceway Park in Clearfield starting in May for the first of four 75-lap races in 2014.
“We are going to start with our old motor for the first few weeks, and then put a fresh piece under the hood at Clearfield,” Fisher saod. “We are putting our eggs in the Clearfield basket.”
Fisher competed twice at the 5/8 mile facility in 2013 and was one of the cars to beat. He claimed the pole and ran up front before running into mechanical problems during the second half of the August race, and in September picked up where he left off before motor problems sidelined them in practice forcing them to pack up early. Surprisingly to some, it wasn’t much of an adjustment going from the smaller 1/3 mile track they’re used to racing at to the bigger track.
“We would like to run something like the New Smyrna World Series, but the cost to run the whole week not including the additional cost to run the regular season is hard to do for a family operation,” he commented.
Fisher added that he and his team would like to do is travel a couple times a month if they can find tracks within a reasonable vicinity of their hometown that will work with them on rules.
Based on what has been seen in recent years Fisher, his car, and crew will be a force to reckon with at any short track he shows up at despite their underfunded status.
