#32 Roger Williams 

Driver / Owner Profile, Career and future Plans! 

Roger Williams
DOB 4/12/67
St. Paul, Indiana
Married to - Lorie
Children - Amanda & Rebecca

Occupation, 

Engine Builder
Owner of Williams Precision Engines since 1990,, Engine Builder for some of the best UMP Modified drivers in the Midwest. Ranked in the top 3 for UMP Engine Builders in 07. Our shop builds 50 to 60 racing engines per year for Sprints Cars, Late Models, Modifieds, NHRA Drag Racers, and NTPA Truck Pullers.

Racing Career

1989  Started Racing Career, Finished 2nd Place in Points with the
Hoosier Kart Club of North Vernon Indiana. Winning multiple
Go Kart features & trophy dashes.

1990 –1999  Opened a new Engine / Machine Shop specializing in high performance and racing engines.. Spent that time building engines for some of the best Sprint Car, Late Model and Modified drivers in the state of Indiana. In that time and still to this day we have accumulated over 200 feature wins and over a dozen track championships as a engine builder.

2000  First year driving a Modified…Running only a limited schedule we were able to finish in the top 20 in the Traveling Northern All-stars Modified Division. 2000 was a learning year for us getting laps at famous race tracks such as the Terre Haute Action Track, North Vernon Twin City Raceway, and best of all the high banks of Lawrenceburg Speedway.

2001 Another good year for us, gathering more experience and building our resources and equipment. In 2001 we raced at several more new tracks and really began to gain respect from our peers for our top finishes...

2002  This was the year Williams Racing really made it’s mark.. In 2002 we competed at the newly renovated Lawrenceburg Speedway exclusively. We attended all 27 shows on the schedule and made 24 features with a top five average finish every week. This consistency helped us clinch a third place finish in the year end
championship points battle. We also clamed our first UMP Modified feature win followed up with two 2nd place finishes and a whole host of third place runs. With out a doubt the competition, as tough as they are, knew we were there to win.

2003  Ran exclusively at Lawrenceburg Speedway again. Contracted to drive for the Walters Racing Team based out of Aurora IN. Finished 5th in the season end points race. Considered to be a top 10 team.

2004  Served as Driver and Owner once again racing exclusively at Lawrenceburg Speedway. Top five consistently with a win on one of the biggest nights of the Season winning a 1000.00 paycheck. Finished 3rd once again in the seasons points championship race.. Twice during the season we led the points.

2005  Raced only a partial season at Lawrenceburg not attempting to chase points. Stayed in the top five consistently and accumulated one win at Lawrenceburg. Raced to the front of the pack at the Gas City Speedway also.

2006  Very successful season for us accumulating 13 top five finishes and a feature win attending only 20 racing events in 06. Raced a partial schedule at Lawrenceburg earning one feature win and finishing 6th in the year end points battle, even though we missed 8 events in the beginning of the season due to busy work schedules. Ventured to Twin Cities Speedway where we qualified 4th for the prestigious Wolf Pack traveling series event. Finished in the top ten at Gas City I69 speedway during their last race of the season with 40 plus cars in attendance. Finished 18th out of 120 cars trying to make the biggest race of the year at the Burg,
“The Big Dawg 100”

2007  We found ourselves venturing into a brand new adventure building a new pavement street stock Camaro. This car was specifically built so we could compete in the inaugural Frank Kimmel Street Stock Nationals held at the super fast Kentucky Speedway. Our performance was exceptional starting all the way back in the 72nd position due to a random draw and working our way to 14th by the half way point of the race. Unfortunately we had a flywheel failure that put us out. Before retiring we passed all the way up to the 14th spot. Needless to say we were hungry to get revenge at the superspeedway and show our true performance capabilities with a good finish. The building of the Camaro and our new UMP Modified limited our capabilities and recourses needed to compete very much in 2007. 

2008  Roger Williams Racing once again fielded two race cars on a very limited budget quite successfully! Our brand new UMP Modified chassis performed very well competing randomly at venues such as Lawrenceburg Speedway, Twin Cities Speedway and Union County Speedway. Our team was defiantly a threat to win posting top 5 finishes and funning up front every time we hit the track.. 

Our Pavement Street Stock Camaro performed awesome at Kentucky Speedway in May during the second running of the Frank Kimmel Street Stock Nationals. After qualifying 5th out of 80 plus cars we were able to pull off a hard fought third place finish threatening for a chance to win the event. At one point our car was three wide looking at the lead with only a hand full of laps left in the event. Frank Kimmel has announced that there will be a series formed allowing us to compete with our pavement car at other famous venues like Rockingham Speedway, Nashville Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, Atlanta Motor Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway as well as Kentucky Speedway.  It is our sincere hope that we can obtain enough sponsorship help in 09 that we could compete in all of the events that Frank Kimmel plans to run.

2009  Looking to go fast and to the front!!! “Lets go Racing”

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Thank You For Your Support!

Roger A. Williams

 

Williams Precision Engines

www.wpespeedshop.com

5365 N Co Rd 700 W

St Paul, IN.  47272

 

Shop Phone 765-525-4825

E-Mail  wpespeedshop@tds.net