A personal note from Jessica:

I just wanted to send out a quick catch up note to everyone.

As I write this, I am sitting around a pile of boxes in my new apartment in Charlotte, NC. I just moved, literally 3 hours ago from my apartment in Huntersville, NC, where I have lived for the past year and a half, to an apartment right next to the University of North Carolina, where I will be going to school in the fall. My last day of High School was Friday and this coming weekend I was supposed to be at my graduation ceremony receiving my diploma, but that won’t be happening, since I will be 3000 miles away racing at the Bullring in Las Vegas. I must say my High School years have been anything but normal, but I wouldn’t trade my racing career for normal….not a chance.

I am so excited to be racing at Las Vegas this Saturday in my very first NASCAR K&N Pro Series race. I need to thank Mike Cesario from Racers Drive for putting this whole deal together. This is my next step up the ladder as I work towards my goal of racing in the NASCAR Cup Series.

I am looking forward to Vegas after winning the Pole in qualifying and earning 2 top 5 finishes at Hickory Motor Speedway Saturday night. We had some mechanical issues in both races that kept us from putting on a real challenge for the win, but it was great to finally capture my first pole in NASCAR Late Models with Revolution Racing and winning the first Pole for the NASCAR D4D program at Hickory.

I will be racing in a Naake Motorsports prepared K&N race car, well it really doesn’t get much better for me. Naake Motorsports is a first class race team and Mike Naake is a great coach. I had an opurtunity to test with the team a few weeks ago and they really believe in me and my driving skills. As a driver it is very important to know that the race team is behind me 100%.

I will also be racing with Naake Motorsports and Racers Drive at Sonoma during the NASCAR Cup weekend on Saturday in the K&N Pro Series race on June 25th. I can’t wait to get back on a Road Course, last time I road raced was 3 years ago…hopefully I haven’t forgot how to turn right.

I will also be interviewed on a radio show called SHOWDOWN this Thursday night on RaceTalkRadio.com that covers the NASCAR Touring divisions. My live interview will air Thursday night at 9:45pm ET (6:45pm PT) I hope you have the opportunity to listen in.

The show replay is heard on the fans' scanners at every NASCAR Sprint Cup race too.

I especially need to thank Ron Sutton and Lyn St. James, who believed in me when I was only 14 years old and have taught me so much these past 4 years….I know I would have never gotten the opportunities’ I have in front of me now without their support and belief in me.

Thank you to everyone that has supported and believed in me.

Jessica Brunelli