History

Snell Motorsports began in 1974 when brothers Joe and Jimmy Snell formed “J & J Racing” to race karts at the Hughesville (PA) Kart Club. In 1979, after 40 feature wins and 4 track championships, Joe moved on to begin his stock car racing career. Teaming up with Wayne Lent, the pair built racecars to compete in the “Sport Stock” class at Shangri La Speedway in Owego, NY.

After two and a half years of dismal on-track performances and lack of financial backing, Joe sold out his racing operation to Ed McGuire of McGuire Motorsports. In 1994, Joe and Wayne again teamed up to produce a highly competitive Street Stock to be raced at Tioga Speedway (formerly Shangri La Speedway). After 5 years, several feature wins and top five Championship runs, the Street Stock was sold to Eugene Beers of Wysox, PA.

Joe then purchased a 1996 Troyer Modified from Chuck Winslow of Elmira, NY in anticipation of the reopening of the Chemung Speedrome in Chemung, NY. Joe ran the car as a modified at Tioga Speedway while the Chemung track was being finished. Over the winter 2000-2001 the car was converted to an “SST” or “B” modified and campaigned at Chemung. The car participated full time from 2001 to 2003 when it was parked to allow Joe more time to focus on Jake & Dusty’s racing development. The car is race ready and rumor has it that it will return to competition in the near future.