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Brittney Zamora Excited For Evergreen Homecoming

www.arcaracing.com August 15, 2019

Everybody needs some home cooking, but perhaps none need it as badly as Brittney Zamora.

The Sunoco Rookie of the Year contender, hailing from Kennewick, Washington, has had her fair share of ups and downs in her inaugural K&N Pro Series West campaign.

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It kicked off with a 15th-place at New Smyrna, an 11th at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Dirt Track (her first race of any kind on that surface) and top 10s at Irwindale (eighth) and Memphis (ninth).

“Definitely a few rookie races starting out,” Zamora told NASCAR.com. “A totally new crew, new car, new atmosphere, new competition. You name it, it was new. It definitely took me 2-3 races to know what I need from the car.”

From there, the results got steadily better and better. She earned her first career pole in the second Twin 100 at Tucson Speedway, led 26 laps and finished third, her best finish to date. She followed that performance up with a runner-up qualifying spot at Colorado and a fourth-place result in the No. 99 NAPA Filters/ENEOS Toyota.

But an electrical fire at Sonoma and radiator issue at Iowa, paired with a struggle-filled 12h-place effort at New Hampshire, the Bill McAnally Racing driver and team hit a wall.

“It‘s frustrating, but it‘s racing,” she said. “You‘re going to have mechanical failures, so you‘ve gotta keep your head up and go to the next race. I‘m ready for my bad luck streak to end and I think this is a good week to stop that.”

Born and bred a Northwest native, Evergreen Speedway is Zamora’s home track in Washington state. As her BMR teammate Hailie Deegan will be pulling double duty at Bristol (K&N East) and Evergreen (K&N West), Zamora will be piloting her super late model in addition to her K&N car on Saturday.

She’ll have two one hour K&N practices and two one hour SLM practices, back-to-back-to-back-to-back.

“I‘m very excited,” she said. “Going back and forth from the super to the K&N pits, I‘m not going to have any breaks, but I‘m not complaining. It’ll be fun. I‘m excited to see how fast I transition driving styles, going from the SLM into the K&N car, because they drive and handle totally differently. They‘re two totally different cars. That‘ll be interesting. I‘m going to have just about everybody in my family there, people I raced with last year in the SLM‘s I‘ll be racing again.”

“It’s my home crowd, they know who I am. I feel at home there.”

Despite it being close to home, Zamora, 20, has only raced on the 5/8-mile track three times in her career. Even so, she’ll among the most experienced drivers when cars hit the track on Saturday.

“Being my home track, I‘m still not a veteran,” she explained. “It‘s still fun to go back there and get better every time we go back.”

Experience and season aside, the 2018 Wendell Scott Trailblazer Award winner takes immense pride in representing the Pacific Northwest in NASCAR, and is looking forward to putting on a good show for her fans.

“Every time I say I‘m from Washington, I have to say ‘the state’ because everybody assumes it‘s D.C.,” she said. “There‘s a ton of local tracks on the West coast. It‘s rare that we come up here. We go to Washington, Oregon and Idaho, but to actually be in my home state is really cool.”

The NAPA Auto Parts 150 is scheduled to go green at approximately 6:30 p.m. PDT from Evergreen Speedway. FansChoice.TV will have live coverage of the event.

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