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Don’t take the same old journey.


 Be somewhere genuine.


 Be somewhere amazing.


 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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           “We build our own engines. We race older cars. We’re just
           trying to keep this going as long as we can, and make the
           best of it when we come to these tracks where we can go             @JClements51               @JClements51
           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
 800.828.4244  at Thunder Valley and Cherokee speedways. He won 55                       jeremyclements51.com

           main events and two championships in a three-year stretch.
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