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ABOUT
THE TEAM
Under one roof, Hettinger Racing provides three crucial steps on the racing ladder, allowing aspiring drivers to acclimate to NASCAR-style racing. The team fields competitive entries on the zMAX CARS Tour, in the ARCA Menards Series and in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. These platforms represent three successive steps toward competing at NASCAR’s highest level – the elite NASCAR Cup Series.
THE OWNER
Hettinger Racing is owned by second-generation racer Chris Hettinger, whose father, Jim, raced open-wheel Midgets and Sprint Cars and won two championships in 1984 and 1990, accolades that earned him a spot in the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame. Chris began his racing career behind the wheel, winning in Midgets and Late Models before becoming a fulltime team owner.
THE SERIES
The CARS Tour provides a transition from go-karts and Legend Cars to Late Model stock cars in a series that is widely considered the nation’s premier Late Model touring series. The experience garnered on the short tracks of the CARS Tour allows drivers to make the next jump to ARCA, where they tackle superspeedways, road courses and dirt tracks in stock cars that once raced in the NASCAR Cup Series. That background serves as preparation for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, which features a stock car chassis with a pickup truck body. It is NASCAR’s third-highest division, behind only the NASCAR Xfinity Series and the NASCAR Cup Series. Every current NASCAR Cup Series driver has matriculated through the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.
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