While Jason Sides is on the sidelines awaiting hip replacement surgery, 24-year-old Robbie Price of Cobble Hill, B.C., is the racer Sides selected to drive his familiar No. Price made his first start in Sides’ ride May 20 at Ohio’s Attica Raceway Park. Sides told SPEED SPORT that Price’s background and work ethic were deciding factors in his selection. Jason obviously knows what he’s doing and has been doing it a lot longer,” Price noted. In addition to his roles as car owner and crew chief, Sides is now a driver coach and says his knowledge of the various tracks can help Price better prepare. “The biggest thing is knowing the race tracks, the characteristics of them and how they race,” Sides acknowledged. “Other than that, he races and he knows basically what he wants to do and how he wants to do it.

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