It was at the age of 10 years old that Lauren Cooper decided that she wanted to race go-karts. Lauren’s first outing in a go-kart race was at the famed Richard L. Shelton Speedway in Shelton Ct. It was a 1/10 mile banked dirt oval. Lauren would finish that race in 3rd place. Laurens next race would find her finishing in 2nd place. Lauren’s 3rd race would find her in victory lane and she would go the rest of that year un-beaten. It was from that year forward that Lauren would challenge the competition from several divisions of karting at various tracks of shapes and sizes around New England and a one time visit to compete in North Carolina. Lauren has built quite a resume herself in karting, but she also competed in school sports as well. Lauren competed in Basketball, Field Hockey, Softball, Lacrosse, and Track. As busy as Lauren’s lifestyle would be, she never let her school work suffer. Lauren would maintain a GPA of 4.083 and be a High Honor student at Pomperaug High School in Southbury Ct.

It was in 2007 that Lauren would make a decision to move from karting to Legend cars, a total different feel..dirt racing to asphalt. We researched a school for Lauren to go to and purchasing a Legend car. It was when we were in the process of doing this that a friend of ours from the Camping World East Division expressed that he would like to see her get right into a full size race car. He really wanted her to go into a Late Model at Stafford Motor Speedway. We did not have the financial support to do that so we discussed it with him and decided to start in the Dare Stock Division. It was over the summer that Lauren would start to practice in full size stock cars with The Racing School at Thompson Speedway in Ct. Lauren competed in the family owned race car in the Dare Stock Division at the Stafford Motor Speedway for 4 races at the end of the 2007 season.

The 2008 season would see Lauren make the jump to the much faster Limited Late Model Division for 10 races.

The 2009 season would see Lauren move up yet another division to S.K. Light Modifieds for 15 races out of 16 weeks of racing. Lauren missed 1 week of racing due to her High School Graduation.

The 2010 season will see Lauren compete in the same division for the first time in 5 years.