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Written by Joe Nemechek
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Thursday, 05 April 2012 19:34 |
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We captured one of our Nationwide pit stops with a 3D video, but now we have to figure out how best to share it. If you have a 3D TV, download the video by right-clicking your mouse here to save the link as a file you put on your USB drive. Then put the USB drive into your TV and use the TV menu to play it in 3D. Or, if you are browsing with a 3D enabled device, you should be able to just click the link. Let me know on Facebook how it works.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 05 April 2012 20:13 |
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Why His Heart Still Races |
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Thursday, 22 March 2012 23:11 |
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Why His Heart Still Races
Source: Inside Polk Magazine
 Many children have sworn up and down that a career as a professional ballet dancer or an astronomer was an achievable target. It may have included the desire to share artistic expression or explore the expanse of space. When young Joe Nemechek got a taste of racing, he, quite simply, put his foot on the gas and never looked back.
Joseph Frank Nemechek III and his family moved to Lakeland when he was about 6. Growing up near Cleveland Heights in the 70s, he recalls the area being undeveloped and where he could have great fun playing. “There were many orange groves nearby at the time,” said Nemechek, a graduate of Santa Fe Catholic High School. “Dad owned Master Machine & Tool in Mulberry. When I was eight or nine, my brothers, John and Mark, and I would go and try to build go-karts with him. We taught ourselves how to do it; there was no instruction manual. Then we’d bring them home and race them near the house in the groves. It was considered the outskirts of town, and today it’s all neighborhoods.”
That first taste of racing in Lakeland’s orange groves made Nemechek fall in love with the possibility of racing as a career. When Joe was 13, he convinced his parents to buy him a dirt bike. “I saw racers jumping bikes on television and I wanted nothing more than to do it myself,” said Joe. “Watching motocross set the spark off; I was jumping on the bike and doing crazy stuff.” His first races were close to home and his parents would pack up the kids and bikes and head to either Dade City, Chicken Farm & Croom, near Brooksville. “My very first race, I was too slow. We took the bike home, adjusted it for more power, and I placed second the next time,” said Joe. “On my third trip to the track, I won; I was hooked.” “One night my brothers and I all hurt our knees in our motocross races. So my parents loaded us up in the back of the station wagon and headed home. We were all on crutches at one time!”
For the full article, please click here.
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Last Updated on Monday, 26 March 2012 16:03 |
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A Blank Hood on the Car, and Failing to Qualify |
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Written by Joe Nemechek
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Wednesday, 28 March 2012 01:52 |
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California was a long trip out, and a long trip back, all for a shortened weekend.
As we do most weekends, we went out to the track with 2 haulers - one with a Sprint Cup primary and backup, the other with the Nationwide primary and backup. The journey was about 4800 miles round trip - some pretty good wear and tear on the equipment.
 When we left for California, the Nationwide cars had AM FM Energy decals on them. We certainly appreciate what AM FM Energy has done for us over the years. But the Sprint Cup car was not sponsored, and had a prominently bare hood and rear quarter panels. For some reason, it was very noticeable this weekend. Too noticeable.
During practice, we had issues finding speed. Could not get the balance right, and struggled with not having enough horsepower to accelerate into those long Fontana straightaways. We had a setup that should have worked, but without testing and without being able to do car simulations like other teams, we were left to trying to figure out what might be wrong with a bit of trial and error. We've done this before, with quite a lot of success up until this point, but as the parts get older and the other teams start catching up, the room for error keeps getting smaller.
We have plans to continue to make performance a bit better each weekend, but the big piece that is missing is sponsorship. With a multi-race or a full year sponsor, we would be able to update our parts inventory, do a bit of testing, and make a huge leap in performance. While we are extremely thankful for the sponsors that we currently have, we are always in search of that larger deal or a steady flow of smaller deals that will take our performance to the next level.
Sponsorship at any level helps, and we could go a long way with a collection of smaller sponsors. A large sponsor could certainly get us there faster. And any size sponsor benefits from getting their name out on this big stage. So if your company can benefit from more customers seeing your company's name, fill out this form or drop us a line at
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and we'll see if there's a fit. In the mean time, thanks for your continued support!
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Last Updated on Thursday, 29 March 2012 23:55 |
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Nemechek Welcomes Back AM FM Energy for the Daytona 500 |
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Written by Web Chief
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Thursday, 23 February 2012 03:58 |
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NEMCO Motorsports announced today that AM FM Energy LLC will be the primary sponsor of Joe Nemechek’s NEMCO Motorsports #87 Toyota, running in the Daytona 500 on Sunday February 26, 2012, with an associate sponsorship on the #87 Toyota in the Drive4COPD 300 on Saturday February 25, 2012, both to be run at Daytona International Speedway.
With the sponsorship, NEMCO is welcoming AM FM Energy back for a third year. After Daytona, AM FM Energy will be on both the Sprint Cup Toyota and the Nationwide Toyota on select races throughout the year.
“There is nothing that seems to beat the winning combination of our name on the NEMCO team cars,” said Andy Mays, president of AM FM Energy. “Each time we are on the cars, we can see a notable boost in our business and that’s because we know Joe has earned high respect and visibility in NASCAR and has some of the most loyal fans.”
For full press release, click here.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 22 March 2012 23:34 |
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SWM International, dba Specialty Welding & Machine, is with us on the Nationwide car this weekend in Texas.