Speedway Spotlight

Jason Anderson

Age: 34.

Hometown: Princeton.

Years racing: 18.

Who/What got you started racing: My father Rich and my brother Brad raced together and they encouraged me to start.

Divisions: Pure stock, bomber, sportsman, street stock and modified.

Number of total wins (heats/features): Not really sure how many.

Career highlights: Winning the championship in Peru stock in 1996.

Favorite professional driver: Ken Schrader because he lives to race. If he has a free night he’s racing at a dirt track somewhere.

Do you or have you raced at other tracks: LaSalle.

What is your funniest/most unusual thing that has happened to you on the race track: Rolling my father’s street stock and two laps later Kookie Wetsel rolled his car for the first time.