Ajay Picard

Ajay Picard is an average guy. He is 29 years old. He works for Pike Industries. He lives in the small town of Palmyra, ME with his two kids (Madison and Brody) and his wife (April). Here is what separates from most guys his age. Ajay is the driver of the L&P Racing number 22 in the Steel’s Real Rod’s and Custom’s Late Model Division at Wiscasset Raceway. Last year in 2008 the rookie driver had back to back 3^rd place finishes in his ride but things for Picard haven’t always been that easy.

In 2002 Ajay started racing in the Super Street Division at Unity Raceway. In the limited number of races he ran that year he blew four motors. For the two season after that not much changed. Ajay had bad luck and continued to run on a limited schedule. Then in 2005 The Picard Racing Team came around. In his first full season in the Super Street Division he won rookie of the year, most improved driver and finished 3^rd in points. To prove to people it wasn’t a fluke Ajay went out in 2006 and won 3 races and finished 2^nd in points after giving up the point lead to get married. In 2007 The Picards came to Wiscasset Raceway where Ajay drove his father’s (Louie) car in the Super Streets.

In 2008 as was mentioned earlier Ajay started driving for L&P Racing which is a team owned by Ajay, April, Penny and Louie Picard as well as Glenn and Catherine Lewis and has a fair amount of success. In 2009 Ajay will be driving for L&P Racing again is looking to have some good runs in the Picard’s Logging and Plowing and A1 Forest Products Chevrolet. “You must first finish to finish first” Ajay said about is the teams philosophy going into this new season. Another thing that has Ajays blood pumping for 2009 besides the fact that for the second year in a row they will be donating 10% of all sponsorship dollars and race winnings to the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital is that he is going to be teammates with his dad. Louie Picard will be driving the L&P Racing number 99 this year and he also looks forward to racing against his son. Ajay would also like to thank the rest of his crew. Derek, A.J., Danielle, Mark, Del, Joney, Miranda, Todd, Dave JR and Rod.

-Matt Childs