FONTAINE FINISHES THIRD AT FULL THROTTLE SPEEDWAY
Chris Fontaine drove the #47 Glenden Enterprises Late Model from a ninth place starting position all the way to a third place finish in the Super Late Model 75 lap event at Full Throttle Speedway in Bradenton, FL on Saturday, May 18.

He won the Hard Charger Award for the third place finish after coming back from a spin during the race.

This was the 29th top five finish Fontaine has posted at the track in the 70 races he has run there since 2000.

Fontaine is currently third in track's Super Late Model series points.

Photo by Robert Howell

CHRIS FONTAINE TO RUN THE #47 GLENDEN ENTERPRISES SUPER LATE MODEL AT FULL THROTTLE SPEEDWAY SATURDAY NIGHT
Chris Fontaine and his race team are preparing the #47 Glenden Enterprises Super Late Model to race in the Super Late Model 75 lap event at Full Throttle Speedway on Saturday, May 18.

Full Throttle Speedway is the new name of Desoto Speedway in Bradenton, FL.

Fontaine is no stranger to the track. Since he began racing Late Models and Super Late Models in 2000, Fontaine has collected 8 poles, 5 wins, 28 top five finishes and 47 top 10 finishes out of 69 races he has run there in the AACS, ASASAT and ASA series.

He finished in the top ten in the Desoto Superspeedway All American Challenge Series points race four times with ninth place in 2003, fifth place in 2004, ninth place in 2005 and second place in 2006.

Do you think the track's new pavement will present any challenges?
"From what it looks like on the internet it looks like they took out some of the bumps and characteristics that we felt were an advantage to us, but we will see how it goes on Friday night in our first couple of practices. Desoto is one of my favorite tracks and I can't wait to get there. Everyone here is very excited to go and we will see how it goes," Fontaine said.

Do you plan to race for points in the Super Late Model series at Full Throttle Speedway?
"That wasn't our plan. Originally our plan for this year was to race all over the Southeastern United States. The new car is taking a little longer to get prepared, so we will just have to see where this race leads us, and go race by race," he said.

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."

CHRIS FONTAINE AND THE CFI/GLENDEN ENTERPRISES TEAM HAD THEIR BEST NCWTS SEASON TO DATE IN 2012

FIRST CAREER TOP 10 FINISH AT DAYTONA

4 TOP 20 FINISHES

15 RACE STARTS

25TH IN DRIVER POINTS

26TH IN OWNER POINTS