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18 years old 11th year racing, drive in the
Whelen All American Series for Revolution Racing,
raced go-karts, Allison Legacy cars, and in the
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Birthday: June 29, 1993
Hometown: Wrentham, Massachusetts
Residence: Charlotte, North Carolina
Years of Racing: 10
I began racing go-karts at the age of 7. Out of
120 races, I received 92 top 5’s with 31 wins.
In 2004, I had a tight race for the championship
but in the end, I came out on top. I competed at F1
Boston in Braintree, Massachusetts in Group 1A.
This is the top group for the Junior League and
encompasses 13 to 17 year olds. I was eleven years
old when I won, and I was the only female. When I
started in stock cars, I had over 200 races in
go-karts. I still go to the go-kart tracks every
now and then to practice and still put up the fast
laps.
At age 12, I completed my rookie season and I
had 14 race starts in the Allison Legacy Series
with my highest finish being second place at
Airborne Speedway in Plattsburgh, New York. During
the season, I won five first place heat runs. At
the national race in Florence, South Carolina, I
qualified 15th out of 27 drivers. A mechanical
failure forced an early departure on lap 170 of 200
while I was vying for 5th position. I finished 18th
for the day. I completed the season by finishing
seventh in championship points despite not running
a complete race season in the New England circuit.
I was also the youngest of eighteen drivers, and
the only female.
In my veteran season in 2005, I showed that I
was a force to contend with. On April 2, I won the
feature at Waterford Speedbowl in Connecticut. I
became the youngest driver in the Speedbowl’s
history to win a stock car feature. On May 27, I
won the feature at the half-mile track - Airborne
Speedway in Plattsburgh, New York. I was the first
repeat driver in the North Series. I concluded my
season in the north by taking my third win - again
at Waterford Speedbowl.
In November of 2006, I completed an Advanced
Driving Course for Late Models at Finish Line
Racing School in New Smyrna, Florida. It was there
that Mike Loescher, founder of the school, said
that I have what it takes and that I'm ready to
advance to bigger things.
I continued my successful ways in 2007 by
winning 4 races. I earned third place in the
Allison Legacy North Series Championship. While
racing the full northern series, I was able to
compete in select national races. 2008 found me
competing in the entire National Allison Legacy
Series.
In the 2008 season, I finished 8th in the
Allison Legacy Touring Series Championship. I had
13 top ten finishes, 6 top fives, and a win at the
North/South Shootout in Adirondack Motorsports Park
in Lowville, New York. I qualified in the top 5
seven times out of 20 races.
I moved up into the Pro All Stars South Super
Late Model Series in 2009. I was excited to see
what I could do in the larger car. In my first
race, I qualified 12th and had a mechanical failure
that ended my night early. All throughout the
season, I proved that I could run up front with the
other larger budget teams and gained a lot of
respect. My best finish in 2009 was 6th at Hickory
Motor Speedway.
In 2010, I once again competed in the PASS
Series. My highest finish was 9th place at Dillon
Motor Speedway. Throughout the season, I had a real
fast car every race. But mechanical failures and
getting caught up in someone else's mess seemed to
end most of my nights short. The highlight of this
season was being invited to NASCAR's Drive for
Diversity Testing and Evaluation Combine presented
by Sunoco in October. I had such a great experience
testing the late models and working with everyone
at Revolution Racing. I definitely learned a lot
about the late models during the racing academy
that they held at Hickory Motor Speedway in early
December also. While racing for Revolution Racing
this season in the Late Model Stock, I know that I
will be able to use what I learned from the driving
school to race competitively.
News
Kingsport Speedway
June 3, 2011
Friday night, I was back at one of my favorite
tracks, Kingsport! I was ready for to see how the
race would go coming off of the fifth place finish
last time. Like my last Kingsport race, the car was
great in practice. I was a little nervous about
qualifying but the car handled great and I ended up
sixth, my best qualifying effort yet. This track is
hard to run the outside groove so once I got to the
inside, I was on the move to the front. I got all
the way up to third when the car started getting
loose and I dropped back to fifth position. We
decided to come down pit road under one of the
cautions to make a change but by the time I got
back out on the track, the leaders were coming to
the green. It took them quite a while for them to
run me down but with the car still being real
loose, I got lapped and there were no other
cautions after that so I ended up finishing ninth.
There was no doubt that I had a fast car and even
with it not handling well, I was still keeping up
with the leaders. After looking into the car more
after the race, we found out that there was a
mechanical failure with the rear end, causing the
car to be loose. Next week, I'm scheduled to run at
Hickory. It's been quite a while since I have ran
there and I'm definitely looking forward to getting
back to the track! I would like to thank God,
Revolution Racing, Max Siegel, John Story,
Jefferson Hodges, Danny Johnson, Toyota, TRD, U.S.
Army, WIX Filters, Sunoco, and Freightliner for
making this opportunity possible!
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Tayla Orleans of Randleman, N.C., will race
in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series. From age
7, she recorded 31 victories and 92 top-fives in
her first 120 races. Since that time, she has won
numerous karting championships and honors that
include becoming the youngest stock-car winner in
the history of Waterford (Conn.) Speedbowl
history.
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