The Folice Blotter
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Folice Blotter
Jody
Folice definitely comes from solid racing stock.
Her father, Joe, was a short track racer in Connecticut and the
day he married her mother, he took his bride to a race in which
he would be competing that night at Middletown.
"Mom
told me that they announced over the PA. 'Congratulations to Joe
and Gloria Folice, who just got married today." and that Joe would
be competing in the Sportsman Class, or whatever, that night,"
Jody said.
"Mom was in the stands and said that some guy leaned over to her
and said, "What kind of an a**hole would bring his wife to a race
track on their wedding night?'
"She
turned to him and said, 'I married that a**hole."
Folice began racing kart in the Wilton Go-Kart Club in Connecticut.
"It
was a school parking lot," she said.
She has faced resistance from the very beginning because she is
female, "Especially when I go where people don't know me," she
said.
"Someone shoved their shoulder into me and tried to intimidate
me at one race track," Folice said. "That was really the worst.
But I go to race just like they do. If I were there to prance
around, it would be a different story. But they know that I'm
there to race and that I'm serious."
Serious she is when it comes to her racing career and she has
the credentials to prove it.
She's
won the 1982 Karting Grand National Championship in Canada, Empire
State Championships in New York, a WKA Gold Cup Series Championship
in 1986, a Modified Series Championship in 1988 and countless
track championships.
"I
won more when I was younger because I raced more," she said. "As
I got older, I needed to be more self supporting so the funds
haven't been there."
Folice
supports herself through managing T & J's Deli in downtown Concord,
a family-owned operation which is a popular lunch spot for Winston
Cup drivers and team members.
She
eventually hopes to go racing full time in a full-bodied car and
has a Late Model Stock Car being built by RBR Racecars to run
at Concord.
"I'm
also talking with a guy about running a NASCAR Dash Series car
for him next year," she said. "I'm going to finish the car (the
Late Model Stock) and then if the Dash deal goes through, I'm
going to run it whenever I can. I want to get as much experience
as I can."
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