The U-13 Team will open the 2007 season with several new crew members brought on board over the winter. Since they have all been working on the hull since the first of the year we do not consider them new to the team.
Added to the U-13 traveling crew will be Jeff Kelly, father of Driver J Michael Kelly. Jeff has been working in the shop since last year and now will be attending all races this year. In addition to Jeff, former U-8 crew member Mike Johnson will return as well as Bob Jenson, Len Bartush and new crew member Donna Gross, formally with Mike Jones U-9. It is their hard work that has been instrumental in helping crew chief Curt Tavenner build new parts and make the necessary repairs to the hull caused by last years catastrophic accidents.
Harvey Chenault and Russ Bircher will assume the dual role as over the road truck drivers and assist the regular crew at the race sites. Lenny Bartush will continue as our webmaster and hopefully be joined by several other individuals we are currently talking to about helping to expand our web site and keep up to the minute news about our team activities.