FONTAINE TAKES 7TH IN SUPER LATE MODEL RACE AT CITRUS COUNTY SPEEDWAY ON 4/27

Chris Fontaine driving the Glenden Enterprises #47 Super Late Model  finished seventh in the 50 lap feature race at Citrus County Speedway last Saturday night.

Fontaine started second in the heat race. "After our first lap we kind of got into it with the #82 and ended up fourth, but I got the lead again by lap four, and won the heat race," Fontaine said.

After an inversion Fontaine started the feature race in third.

"I got around second place and got up beside the first place car and we got together, and it tore up the front of the car a little bit," Fontaine said.

 "Around lap 35 Steve Dorer caught me and got outside of us and everybody just ran out of racing room. Me and Steve got together and it tore the whole side of the car off, so we just made it to the finish,"Fontaine said, adding,"We were running really, really well. We should have won, but the car got a little loose.

FONTAINE GETS CAUGHT IN WRECK ON LAP 53 IN DAYTONA TRUCK RACE

Chris Fontaine and the Glenden Enterprises #84 Toyota Tundra got collected in a multi-truck wreck on lap 53 of the NextEra Energy Resources 250 NCWTS race at Daytona International Speedway Friday night.

"We were just riding and it was really hard to pass. Everybody checked up and we all wrecked," Fontaine said.

He had qualified the #84 in the 22nd spot to start the race and was credited with a 34th place finish. 

This was Fontaine's third NCWTS race at Daytona. In 2011, while running near the front, he got caught up in a late race wreck and ended up with 19th place. In 2012, he stayed out of harms way and finished with his first career top ten finish of seventh.

FONTAINE FOURTH FASTEST IN DAYTONA PRACTICE

Chris Fontaine driving the Glenden Enterprises #84 NCWTS Toyota Tundra ran fourth fastest in the first practice session for Friday's NCWTS season opener, the Nextera Energy Resources 250 at Daytona International Speedway.

Fontaine turned a lap of 179.094 mph in 50.253 seconds around the 2.5 mile Superspeedway.

Qualifying will be televised on the SPEED channel on Friday, February 22 at 1:30 PM ET.

The race will be televised live on the SPEED channel on Friday, February 22 at 7:30 PM ET.

"Daytona is the only NCWTS race we have planned right now. We are going to run some late model races this year, but we haven't gotten that far into that yet, we are just concentrating on Daytona," Fontaine said.

Fontaine has raced in the NCWTS race at Daytona twice before, in 2011 and 2012.

In 2011, while running near the front, he got caught up in a late race wreck and ended up with 19th place.

In 2012, he stayed out of harms way and finished with his first career top ten finish of seventh.

Of his expectations for this year's race, Fontaine said he is going to, "try to take the experience we have, and get up front and stay there."