Zak Petrie - Thunder Cars

Name: "Flat Black" Zak Petrie

Email Address: Shift_96@yahoo.com

Website:

Date of Birth: 4.6.84

Hometown: Pulaski

Marital Status: G/F

Children: none

Occupation: Parts Manager @ Saturn of Syracuse

Car Number: 13z

Why did you choose this number? My buddy mark had always wanted to use 13 on a race car. I just got to doing it before him and we were going to race at Fulton, but someone already had the 13. I put the z on it to make it mine and it stuck.

Current Division: Thunder Car

Years in Racing: 4

Number of wins: 18

Championships Won: 2009 Thunder Alley Thunder Cars Track Champion (Dirt)

Team Owner: Self Owned

Car Make/Model or Chassis builder: Saturn....is there anything else?

Engine Builder: Saturn

Crew Chief: Dad

Crew Members: John Petrie (dad)
Mark Roberge
John + Gary Shumway
Angie
Mike..when hes not busy with rob....
Rob...when hes not busy with mike....


Sponsors: North Syracuse Napa
Bon-Ton Glass
U-Pull U-Save Auto Parts
Pulaski Body Shop
Saturn Of Syracuse

Significant Racing Accomplishments: Track Champ this year at Thunder Alley.
Back To Back Enduro Wins at CCFS.
2008 Dirt Feature winner at Oswego Speedway.
Raced at 11 different tracks in NYS.

Most Memorable Racing Moment: Its a tossup of the first night i got a Thunder Car win at Can-Am by drag racing Mike Durham to the finish line in 2007, or winning the track championship in 2009 at Thunder Alley

Funniest Moment in Racing: Running out of gas in a feature in 2008 at Can-Am has to rank up there. Loosing the exhaust system off the car and running it over a couple of times at Brewerton was pretty good too or leading everyone by a lap at Albany-Saratoga's 107.1 lap enduro to have the RF wheel fall off at 103 laps.

Tell us about your first race: I was horrible....I hit 3 different cars and almost the wall. I'll never forget when i ran into the back of Randy's white #TEN car and a week later when i was fixing my car, i found a piece of his stuck in the firewall.

Favorite Track: Can-Am or Thunder Alley (dirt)

Favorite Driver: T-Mac and Raabe

Additional Comments Id like to thank my father for putting countless hours into the cars...It means alot.
Id also like to thank the fans and sponsors of the races.