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 2014
SCSCS Champion JJ Pack Preparing for Two Season Openers in 2019
Statesville,
North Carolina (February 4, 2019) – While many are simply trying to stay
cozy indoors in response to the latest winter wrath, one driver is working hard
in his Midland, Virginia shop in order to have a pair of machines ready to
commence with 2019’s racing campaign.
JJ Pack is not only preparing
a Super Cup Stock Car Series ride for the opening event at Dominion Raceway on
Saturday, April 28, but is also eyeing a return to the Daytona International
Speedway for a bid at the first race of the ARCA Racing Series season.
While the general nature of
each stock car could be seen as similar to the casual eye, the specifics are
night and day between a car being readied for a 2.5-mile superspeedway and one
being set up for a short track.
“The rulebook has been the
big thing,” the 2014 SCSCS champion laughed, regarding studying what needs to
take place in advance of Daytona. “To
have an advantage you have to know every detail, because every little
difference is more extreme. It’s
a flexible body, but the amount of bracing and setup needed to make sure
everything is fast aero-wise are insane.”
Pack has made a handful of
previous ARCA appearances, including at the World Center of Racing.
A solid outing a few years back was suddenly halted when a punctured
fuel line resulted in the car he was competing in briefly erupting in fire on
the backstretch.
The veteran driver simply
hopes this February foray is a clean and enjoyable one, despite going up
against multiple high-dollar teams with NASCAR connections.
“First thing is we would
like to start and finish the race,” Pack said.
“We don’t have a big hauler or anything like that, so as a team we
would like to go down and have some fun, doing some old school racing.”
 Following
Florida Speedweeks, the focus shifts to the SCSCS schedule.
Pack will be introducing a new car to competition compared to his past
endeavors.
“It’s an actual former
ARCA car with a steel body on it,” Pack indicated.
“It is brand new in that it has never been raced.
It was sitting in the Roush Racing shop and was in a corner.”
Altogether, the JP Racing
operation is a family effort at the shop. Pack,
his wife Heather, and his father are putting in the vast majority of work on
any given day. Before the SCSCS
season officially gets underway, he and his wife are awaiting another arrival,
a baby boy in April.
When asked about his goals for
2019, Pack commented first about keeping a more level head leading into and
throughout this year.
“Making it to all the races
is my intent,” Pack noted. “I
would like to win another championship, but the competition has definitely
stepped up since the last one, so we are going to have to step ourselves up as
a team.”
Two facilities Pack mentioned
about looking forward to are each places that he has knowledge, one of them
being his home track in which he has contended for victory before.
“I would like to walk away
with a win at Dominion,” Pack stated.
The first appearance for the
series at Salem Speedway excites the driver with five career SCSCS wins and
four career poles because of his prior experience at the Indiana track,
including a 10th place finish in a Pro Cup race a number of years ago, but also
because he feels it will help elevate the overall competition even higher for
the series.
“Salem’s going to be a
good kind of learning tool for these drivers,” Pack mentioned regarding the
event slated for Saturday, July 27. “It’s
a tough track, but it will teach some lessons about managing the longevity of
your car for future races.”
Pack and his peers are inching
closer toward track time in 2019 and fans can stay posted with a variety of
content at www.supercupstockcarseries.com,
Facebook (search Super Cup Stock Car Series), Twitter (@SCSCSRacing), and
Instagram (SCSCS_Racing).
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