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Chiles grad enjoys life on the pit crew
Caught in the Catchfence™
“There’s certain people that can take pressure in general, and some people that can’t,” Roberts said. “I like the pressure because I know I can do it.”
In fact, Roberts just won his first race on June 21 while pitting the No. 77 Cunningham Motorsports ARCA car driven by Parker Kligerman.
“There was a wreck with two laps to go and we were in the lead, so we had to do a restart,” Roberts said. “It was really nerve-racking for those two laps.”
After graduating from Chiles in 2006, Roberts majored in mechanical engineering at the University of Central Florida. He departed college early to attend an eight-week pit crew course at PIT, the Performance Instruction & Training school in Mooresville, N.C.
“To get your foot in the door, you have to know somebody,” Roberts said. “I moved here not knowing anybody.”
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