Russ Nutting climbed into a race car for the first time in 1957. Fifty-one years later, the soft spoken veteran driver shows no signs of slowing down as he still climbs into a race car, straps on his helmet and continues to win races.

During his long racing career, Russ has competed at 28 different race tracks in New England, New York, eastern Canada and the Canadian Maritimes. By the best estimate, he was won between one hundred and two hundred races, including ‘Getty Opens’ at Oxford Plains Speedway and the ‘Governor’s Cup’ at Beech Ridge Speedway.

Russ has won six track championships – Oxford Plains (1961), Arundel Speedway (1965), Hudson (N.H.) Speedway (1999, 2003, 2004) and the Open Series for Saturday Night cars at Oxford Plains (1984).

He owns a race car fabrication business and has built winning cars of all types for a number of customers, from modifieds and cut downs to Street Stocks and Late Models. Russ has been a crew chief for Dale Shaw on the NASCA Busch North Series and on Dick Bahre’s cars at Daytona and Martinsville.

When he isn’t driving race cars, or being a crew chief on them or building them, Russ been a valuable official at several tracks, including Technical Director at Beech Ridge (1958-60), Oxford Plains (1991-93), Star Speedway (1994-2006) and Lee USA Speedway (2007).