Welcome Todd Shaffer Fans!
Welcome to the Official Website of Central Pennsylvania sprint car driver, Todd Shaffer. We hope your visit here will help you get to know a little bit more about Todd and the team that surrounds him. Race results and news for this year are now posted. Todd is behind the wheel of the awsome #88 owned by Gary & Patty Beam. This should be a wounderful year of racing.
This site was last updated July 3rd, 2008.
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I guess in Todd's
case, you could say racing is in his blood. His
grandfather,
W.S. Stutts, raced Go-Karts, as did Todd's father, Ray Shaffer; uncles
Roger
and Larry Stutts, and his younger brother, Eric "Zip" Shaffer. Todd
got his first go-kart when he was 7 years old, but wasn't permitted to
officially
race until he was 8. By the time Todd was 14, with his father building
the
engines, Todd had already won 4 Grand National Championships, the
fourth
championship with an engine he had built himself. Before ending his
go-karting
career, Todd won 4 more Grand National Championships for a total of 8.
In 1980, just after
graduating from high school, Todd was all set
to
join the
U.S. Air Force. But the day before he was to take his oath, he got a
call from
Chuck Link of Link Enterprises in Dover, Delaware. He offered Todd a
full-time
job racing Go-Karts. Todd immediately accepted the offer and spent the
next 3
years racing all over the country in places like Daytona and Talladega.
Continue to
follow Todd's Racing in 1983Dedication: This website is dedicated to Bob Burch who passed away on October 31, 1999. Bob was a special friend and a long time, loyal race fan. He will be truly missed, but not forgotten.
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