It didn’t come easy, but the hard work Gary Bozowski and his Full Send Racing team put into their street stock paid off. They won their first race at Bridgeport Motorsports Park on Saturday night.
“We named our team Full Send Racing because that encompasses our approach and mentality for racing,” Bozowski, of Elkton, Maryland, said. “We’re just a couple of normal guys racing as a hobby. We didn’t go into racing expecting to make any money — we just want to race and give it our all. We spend long nights just busting ass on our car.”
Besides the metric chassis from Bernheisel Race Components, Full Send Racing builds most of everything else on the car.
“Unfortunately, all the problems we had this year were drivetrain related, and I build the engines,” said Bozowski.
Bozowski blew up the engine he started the season with.
“I assembled another engine, and two weeks ago the valvetrain failed,” Bozowski said. “That one I was able to fix and put back together — and we won with it.”
He also had a transmission failure, but that didn’t stop him from racing.
“We went full send — we scrambled overnight to put a borrowed Falcon transmission that my father, Anthony, offered us,” said Bozowski. “We were back at the racetrack the next day.”
The Full Send Racing team consists of Anthony Bozowski, Andrew Joslin, T.J. Henry, Mike Hughes Jr., and extended families.
“T.J. and Mike race street stocks with us,” Bozowski said. “Between my dad and those guys we have a tremendous source of knowledge to go to.”
Gary Bozowski drew pole for the Saturday-night feature. At the drop of the green, the field couldn’t catch him.
“We found a lot of speed because everything finally came together,” said Bozowski. “We worked out all our bugs. I found I could push the car harder and harder than I ever did. It was a validation for all the hard work this crew put in.”
Mike Adaskaveg has written hundreds of stories since the website’s inception. This year marks his 54th year of covering auto racing. Adaskaveg got his start working for track photographer Lloyd Burnham at Connecticut’s Stafford Motor Speedway in 1970. Since then, he’s been a columnist, writer, and photographer, in racing and in mainstream media, for several outlets, including the Journal Inquirer, Boston Herald, Stock Car Racing, and Speedway Illustrated. Among Adaskaveg’s many awards are the 1992 Eastern Motorsport Press Association (EMPA) Ace Lane Photographer of the Year and the 2019 National Motorsports Press Association (NMPA) George Cunningham Writer of the Year.
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The Outside Groove contributor from Macungie, Pennsylvania, has covered the sport since 2012. Sabo serves as the official track photographer of Grandview Speedway in Bechtelsville, Pennsylvania. Photography is a family ordeal for Sabo. He shoots with his daughter, Abby, at Shellhammer Dirt Track in Shoemakersville, Pennsylvania. At Grandview and other venues Sabo travels to, he and his father, Stephen “Poppa Pepper” Sabo Sr., capture the night’s action with their cameras.
