Blake Lothian is living the fast life and living his dream as a 23-year-old NASCAR driver.<\/p>\n
“I just stumbled across it on TV and was, like, ‘Man, there’s, like, cars going around in circles. It looks amazing.’ I just fell in love with it instantly,” he said.<\/p>\n
The Wellesley High School graduate will return to the New Hampshire Motor Speedway to race in the NASCAR truck series on Saturday. He was 7 years old when he first ventured to the Granite State raceway with his family.<\/p>\n
“We’ve always felt that our kids need to do something that they’re passionate about,” his father Dan said.<\/p>\n
The younger Lothian started his racing career at 16, driving go-karts and even won a championship at Louden. In 2019, he joined NASCAR as part of a competitive diversity program.<\/p>\n
“At some point, he said to me, ‘Mom, do you think I can do this?’ We were watching a race. I think he was in fifth or sixth grade. I said, ‘I think you can do anything you want to do,'” his mother Cindy said.<\/p>\n
Lothian said part of his attraction to NASCAR is speed. He said he loves going fast.<\/p>\n
“It’s a surreal feeling,” he said. “The sound, the feeling, the smell inside the truck, there’s nothing like it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blake Lothian is living the fast life and living his dream as a 23-year-old NASCAR driver. “I just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,2629,82,81095],"class_list":{"0":"post-153724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-new-hampshire","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-wellesley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}