Steve Portenga has been working hard over the off-season and feels he’s put some ideas into the system that might help get his program on top.
Said Portenga, "The NASCAR Winston West series is a tough series. We have the team together and we’re communicating well. We have the car and the crew and there isn’t a more determined driver in the series than myself. We started this season off slow but we are turning this season around. We won the FOODS CO 200 at Mesa Marin and we are taking that momentum on to the two-mile super speedway of Fontana.
"Last April at the Pontiac Wide Track Grand Prix 200 on the Fontana super speedway we had worked our way back up to sixth, on the last lap coming off of turn four we made a move to go for a top five position. My car lost traction and spun around we finished eleventh. We at (SPR) Steve Portenga Racing feel with the win at Mesa Marin and the changes we have made over the off-season have made us a stronger team. We are taking each race as it comes.”
Portenga resides in Bakersfield, Calif. He got his start in NASCAR Racing in 1988 earning Rookie of the Year Honors and a NASCAR Winston Racing Series Track Championship at Silver State Raceway in Carson City, Nevada. A 2-year veteran of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, Portenga earned honors as the youngest rookie to finish in the Top 5 in a race as well as the highest placing youth in the series (13th of 103 competitors in 1995). Portenga is the 1992 NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Series Rookie of the Year and two time Series Champion (1994 & 1998).
