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Don’t take the same old journey.
Be somewhere genuine.
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Be changed. Clements’ best finish in 2018 was an eighth last April at Chevy CAMARO SS
Richmond. He also had a 10th-place effort in October at 51 CREW CHIEF:
Kansas. More important that having just two top-10s was the DANNY GILL FEATURED DRIVERS
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playanydaygetawaycation fact he was running on the lead lap in 18 of 33 races, and he JEREMY CLEMENTS RACING
finished in the top 20 a total of 26 times – including the final
17 races.
Not bad when you race on a budget. He drove in 40 ARCA Series races from 2002 to
2008, with a victory at Nashville in 2007.
“With the purse and the sponsorship all year, we race off
probably a million [dollars] all year,” Clements said. “A “I’m a student of racing. I try to learn every time I get
million all year, versus the five-to-six million we’re racing in the car,” Clements said.
against. It takes a lot of dollars to make these cars fast and
everything keep going.
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trying to keep this going as long as we can, and make the
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after a win or a top-10.”
Like so many others, Clements started in go-karts. In 1999, @JeremyClementsRacing
he drove four-cylinder cars in the Modified and Stock series
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main events and two championships in a three-year stretch.
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