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“Casey Roderick is the genuine article. I am very pleased to be working with such a tremendous young talent,” says Bill Elliott, NASCAR champion and Casey’s new team owner and mentor. At five years old Casey won his first race and went on to win the Junior Sportsman Championship in the World Karting Association Gold Cup series two years later when he was finally old enough to compete in the WKA. Casey is celebrated for being the youngest driver in the history of the WKA ever to win a National Championship.

Casey has over 100 career wins to his name and numerous titles beginning with a 2001-World Karting Association National Championship, the North American Karting Championship at Lowes Motor Speedway and in 2003 the WKA Winter National Championship in Jacksonville, FL, all before turning to the INEX sanctioned Bandolero division of the Legends cars and winning the Bandolero Bandits Championship at Atlanta Motor Speedway the same year. In 2004 he followed up with another championship in the Bandolero Bandits division at the AMS Thursday Thunder Series and moved up to the Bandoleros Young Guns division that winter, winning both the 2005 Winter Flurry Series and Georgia Winter Series championships in the Bandolero Young Gun division.

Due to Casey’s quick success in the Bandolero Young Gun division, Legends Racing officials granted him a waiver to move up to the Legends Semi-Pro division at only 12 years of age. Against much older competition and in only his first season in Semi-Pro, Casey again took the field to the checkers winning the first Semi-Pro division championship that he entered, making it two championships in two divisions in 2005. Casey moved into the Pro division of the Legends cars in the winter of 2005. The following summer, at the age of 13, Casey became the youngest Pro driver in the history of the INEX Series to win the Summer Shootout championship at Lowes Motor Speedway, taking the esteemed record away from NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Reed Sorenson. Casey won the Governor’s Cup and the Pro Nationals later that same year at Lanier Speedway, along with the Mason Dixon Meltdown at South Boston, VA, and the PRI Championship at Speedworld-Orlando, FL.

In 2007 Casey went on to win the Legends Pro division Thursday Thunder Series Championship at AMS, the Asphalt National Pro Championship, the INEX Pro National Points Championship, the Lanier Speedway Pro Championship, the Georgia Asphalt Pro Championship and the 2007 National Race of Champions at Las Vegas, setting a new track record at Las Vegas of 16.873 seconds.

With seven national fast time awards in the WKA and his remarkable consistency throughout his young career, Roderick has proven himself to be among the very best. The fifteen-year-old Lawrenceville, Georgia, native is still breaking records today. He literally sits among today’s elite NASCAR drivers with record-breaking achievements, including his 21st career feature win at the Atlanta Motor Speedway. The win put him ahead of NASCAR Nationwide Series phenomenon Joey Logano, with 20 career feature wins. The following week, Casey posted another record-breaking run with his 22nd feature win at AMS to tie for second most wins in Thursday Thunder Series history, a title he shared with NASCAR Sprint Cup Series sensation Reed Sorenson. In July 2008, Casey made his way to Victory Lane for his 23rd career feature win at AMS, taking over second position in career wins for himself and bumping Sorenson back to third. Now Casey has his sights set on taking the title of all-time winningest driver at AMS away from Doug Stephens, who currently holds the record at 27 wins. But Casey isn’t just a fantastic driver; the fans love him as well. Casey has won the Thursday Thunder Series Most Popular Driver Award back-to-back in 2006 and 2007 and is hoping to capture the title again in 2008.

Many would assume that a record as distinguished as Casey’s comes with an experienced team and back-up cars in the wings, as it did with the Logano’s and the Sorenson’s of the racing world. But the success of Casey Roderick was born from pure determination and raw talent. Casey and his father David, a two-man team with only one car, have accomplished tremendous success, especially considering their limited resources. Now Bill Elliott hopes to take this tremendous young talent to the next level of his career, so stay tuned as it promises to be nothing short of spectacular.