Hometown: Mars, Pennsylvania
Years Racing: 18
Birth Date: June 1, 1973
Family: Wife - Robyn, Daughter - Madison
Occupation: Truck Driver, Pitt-Ohio Express
Career Wins: 33
Nickname: “Big Show”
Hobbies: Hunting, Wii Games
Memberships:
~ Pittsburgh Circle Track Club
~ F. & A. M. John E. Mair Lodge #729
~ Mars VFW
E-mail Address: butch@lambertracing.com
Career Highlights:
~ 2010- 3rd Place FASTRAK Northeast Touring Series
~ 2009 Pittsburgh Circle Track Club Crate Late Model Champion
~ 2009 - 7th place FASTRAK Northeast Touring Series
~ 2009 - 28th place FASTRAK Grand Nationals
~ 2009 - 31st place FASTRAK National Weekly Racing Series
~ 2008 McKean Co FASTRAK Northeast Jim Jerge Memorial Winner
~ 2008 Pittsburgh Circle Track Club Crate Late Model "Rookie of the Year"
~ 2008 - 10th Place in UEMS Series Points (Emod)
~ 2006 Lernerville Speedway Pure Stock Champion
~ 2006 Stover's Net Connection Hard Charger of the Year
~ 2006 Challenger Raceway "Summer Sizzler" Winner
~ 2005 Lernerville Speedway Pure Stock Champion
~ 2005 Stover's Net Connection Hard Charger of the Year
~ 2002 Lernerville Speedway Pure Stock Champion
~ 2001 Stewart Bus Lines Super Point Champion
~ 1999 Lernerville Speedway ARCH Sportsman of the Year
Bio:
Butch began his racing career back in 1991, when he began racing enduros as a senior in high school. After a bad crash destroyed his car and sent him to the hospital, Butch decided to hang up his helmet for a few years. He and Uncle Bill started building a new car for the Pure Stock Division at Lernerville in 1993, but the car wasn't ready to go until the beginning of the 1994 season. He raced weekly at Lernerville Speedway & Challenger Raceway. Through the winter of 1996 and into 1997, they built another new car and he started to become a regular Top 10 finisher at both tracks.
For the 2000 season, with the help of Kennedy Family Racing, Butch debuted another new car. On April 15, 2000 at Challenger Raceway's opening event, he won his first career feature event. He went on to win six more features that year. Butch and Robyn were married at the end of the 2000 season.
In 2001 Butch visited victory lane eight times and won the Stewart Bus Lines Super Points Championship at Challenger Raceway. He finished 3rd in points at Lernerville Speedway. Also in 2001, Butch began driving the Wexford Racing E-mod, owned by Chuck Neely, on a full-time basis.
2002 was a fantastic year for Butch as he competed in his pure stock at Lernerville Speedway and piloted the #27 Wexford Racing E-mod at Tri-City Speedway and various other tracks. He picked up two feature wins in the stock and went on to be the 2002 Lernerville Speedway Dingbats Restaurants Pure Stock Champion.
In 2003, the team struggled throughout most of the season. Motor problems plagued Butch, forcing him to miss 2 events and even borrow a motor from Don Gamble twice. Meanwhile, he still managed to finish in the Top 10 in 16 out of 21 events and 7th in the overall points standings at Lernerville. Rain was the big story of 2003 as well, with 7 events being cancelled.
The 2004 season was better, but not spectacular. Butch picked up only 1 feature win, but finished 4th in the Lernerville point standings. We decided to have Chris Schneider of SS Chassis build us a new car for 2005. Although he struggled at the beginning of the season, the new SS Chassis lived up to expectations by mid-season. He won his first race of the season on May 6th, then went on to pick up 5 more wins, including back to back features. The wins helped him steadily move up in the points standings and by the final points night, he was only 1 point out of first. He captured the heat and feature win that night and with that, won his second points championship by a mere 2 points over Greg Beach.
No major changes were expected for the 2006 season, other than the anticipated arrival of Butch and Robyn's daughter, Madison, who was born on March 5th, 2006. Butch had a spectacular 2006 season, winning 11 of 15 heat races at Lernerville Speedway and 4 feature event wins. His worst finish of the season at Lernerville was a 5th place, and with that, he dominated the points standings and the hardcharger standings to become the 2006 Advance Auto Parts Points Champion and the Stover's Net Connection Hard Charger of the Year. He also captured the Summer Sizzler win at Challenger Raceway. In October of 2006 he ventured to Winchester Motor Speedway in Winchester, VA where he set 3rd fastest time, won his heat event, finished 2nd in the dash and 4th in the feature.
2007 was another good season for Lambert Racing. Butch captured 3 feature event wins at Lernerville Speedway and finished a solid 4th place in the final points standings after a flat tire sidelined him in the final event. We put our beloved SS Chassis up for sale at the end of the season with plans to concentrate on running the Wexford Racing Emod and looking for that elusive first win. We still had the stock at the beginning of the year so we had planned on running a limited "specials only" schedule with it. One week before Lernerville's opening event, Butch got a call and the car was sold. Within two weeks, we had located and purchased a turn-key 2002 Rocket Crate Late Model.
Our plan was to focus our efforts for 2008 on the Emod and run a limited schedule with the Crate, however, that plan didn't stay in place for long. Out of the box, Butch was comfortable in the Crate and the more he raced the more fun we had. We ended up running all but one scheduled event at Tri-City, finished an incredible 35th out of 228 drivers in the FASTRAK National Weekly Points Championship, 31st in the FASTRAK Grand National Points, and ran at 10 different tracks in 4 different states, including trips to Eldora Speedway (OH), Wythe Raceway (VA) and Friendship Speedway (NC). Butch also ran all but one UEMS Series events for the emod and ended up finishing 10th in their points standings.
The 2009 season had its shares of ups and downs. Some of the ups included finishing 11th at The Dirt Track at Lowe's Motor Speedway on Memorial Day weekend in front of over 15,000 race fans, winning the Non-Qualifiers Race at Eldora Speedway and racing at 15 different racetracks in 6 states throughout the season. The lows were having a nearly season-ending crash at Mercer on Memorial Day, losing an engine only 14 races into the season, and failing to qualify for Nights #2 & #3 of the FASTRAK Grand Nationals. The 2009 season was also the first season since 2003 that the Lambert Racing #27 did not make it to Victory Lane. Despite that, and missing 2 events, Butch's consistency put him in a tie for 7th place in the FASTRAK Northeast Touring Series points. He also finished 31st in the FASTRAK National Weekly Series Points and 28th in the FASTRAK Grand Nationals Points.
We are looking forward to the 2010 season and hope to upgrade our chassis and make some other changes/improvements to our team and operations. Our plan is to make a serious bid for the FASTRAK Northeast Touring Series Championship and to race weekly at Mercer Raceway Park and Tri-City Speedway.
