Updated on:
Thurs. July 2,
2009
2:50 PM EST
11:50 AM PT
Pics of the Week
In racing there are many people who help out racers and I am no different.
Here is a list of who helps out the Yannazzo family team.
Crew
Tina
Yannazzo- My wife and companion without her I don’t go racing she has been
the family supporter for 26 years and continues to love the sport of racing.
Jimmy Patterson- Crew Chief-
Jimmy has been a longtime friend and has been the only reason I continue to
drive a car myself
Tony Patterson- Crew- Tony
is the son of Jimmy and has been a big help to me keeping me ready to go
while watching the girls races.
Tom Gemo who helps out at
home so I can make it to the race track.
Sponsors- A sponsor
doesn’t necessarily mean they give money but the following people help in one
way or the other. These people mean a lot to our team to allow us to be
able to race so far away from home.
Swimming Pool Perfections-
The main sponsor of the team. There are many people in this
organization that knowingly contribute through hard work that allow our
family to go weekly and race.
QRC -The factory for
all things Outlaw Go Kart racing. The entire staff at one time or
another has helped us out to keep us going or for all that matters keep us
part of the racing family
Grandpa George Motors-
George has built the engines from day one and will continue to provide the
reliable power this team needs to be successful.
Locked N Loaded Graphics-
Pete Johnston has done the entire graphic for the 08 season and the cars all
look great.
Yak Graphics- has in past
taken care of all of our logo needs and remains one of our businesses we can
count on.
Summit Auto Body in San
Carlos Ca has been painting the bodies for the past few years.
Cziska Family Racing- Fred
and Terry Cziska are a good friend of ours and has supported the family
racing efforts over the years.
Friends of the team
Al Weiss- A long time friend
of the family and moral support for me. Al is why we got into this
division of racing and where we will stay.
Tim Kaeding-
TK is always there for advice and support mostly for my kids who he loves
like they are his family.
Rawhide- Mike Gain is the
name but Rawhide if you’re his friend helps fab items I have no time for.
Mike is known to the kids as their uncle.
Jason (Lumpy) Zazada- Lumpy
runs the 4th car for Yannazzo Motorsports and represents well.
Lumpy is a good dad and bring his aspiring future driving son Alex along to
every race.
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The Insider- 6-30-09
From the shop of Yannazzo Motorsports
it has been some time since we have posted an update, that
is because from February until early June we did not race!
Yannazzo Motorsports had to take some time off to take care
of the family owned and operated swimming pool business and
with the economy this now meant that Greg was having to work
more to keep it all going.
This year Greg was working with the
Roth Motorsports team during the time off which was lots of
fun but not like if we were driving Greg reported along the
way. One afternoon Rick Wright called and asked if
Greg wanted to test his famed #35 Wright One Motorsports 410
car that was brand new and running the next night at Watsonville, that was
sometime in March!
Greg was not going to miss that
opportunity and went down to take him up on the offer!
Greg wheeled the car for 20 laps and realized this is what
is needed again and made plans to get the karts going again,
even with a very sweet offer to run a second car with the
Wright One team. Knowing how bad the girls wanted to
race Greg set out to get the team mobilized once again and
brought out the familiar H20 black flamed beast to Cycleland
the 1st week in June.
The next 2 weeks were without the
Stephani and Shannon with ok results. Greg was sure
the engine had sat to long and needed a rebuild. The
team would part again and attend a graduation Party for a
good friend Jovan Cowan son of Terry Cowan that owned the
famed 7t sprint car. Terry’s son Jarred is racing with
us at Cycleland and this was a great break in the action.
The following week of June 20th
the entire team was back and Stephani looked as if she never
missed a beat! Shannon
was in a 500 and ready to go. Stephani would win her
heat after spinning and start on the pole of the main where
she finished 4th and Shannon would run the entire main and run 12th
a very good run. Greg would ran 3rd in the
A and was in the hunt the entire night.
Fast forward to June 27th
and after a visit to QRC for the Yamaha nights at the store
and a stay in an awesome campground we made our way to the
speedway with 15 people in our gang for the night! Shannon would run some of her best laps of her career but
get wrecked in the main, Stephani would run from the back of
A after an early altercation to a very respectable top ten
finish. Greg would miss the dash and start the main in
4th spot but an early altercation would find
himself mired in the back. The altercation was close
encounters with the wall and did a 780 in the air!!!!
Everyone said it was big I myself missed it…lol.
Starting 20th Greg would take his time and get
back to 5th spot and charging at the end but
could get no further up.
Yannazzo
Motorsports wants to thank the following people for their
hard work and dedication to our team that allows us to race
during the weekends. Cziska Family Racing, Jimmy and
Tony Patterson, Pete Johnstone at Locked & Loaded Graphics
for giving us the best looking karts out, not to mention for
winning us the best looking kart in the Sportsman Division.
We thank you so very much for being part of this team and
family.
