BANGOR — Heather Littlefield, 32, of Bangor is getting ready to compete in a rally race in Harrisville, New York, Sept. 20-21.
Littlefield said she has been a rally motorsports enthusiast since 2005 when she discovered the sport on YouTube. After volunteering for seven rally events on the east coast since 2011, she has secured a seat in a competitor’s car where she will navigate at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour through the woods of New York.
Littlefield grew up in Bar Harbor and attended Mount Desert Island High School. She is a student at in Husson University’s New England School of Communications in the marketing communications program.
Littlefield said she intends to start her own motorsports marketing company after she completes the bachelor’s degree program at NESCom.
She is mother to a 7-year-old son who has high functioning autism. Littlefield said she hopes to someday have her own rally car and team in which she will race to help spread autism awareness.
“I’m very excited to have this opportunity to co-drive and to be supported by such a great community. I’m looking forward to tearing up some gravel on the back roads of New York and looking for a nice clean finish. We don’t race for cash prizes, we race for the love of the sport,” Littlefield said.
Twisted Nuts Racing, the team Littlefield will co-drive for, is based in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania.
“Rally racing is a very expensive sport. Just for us to be able to compete at Black River Stages it’s going to cost us approximately $4,500. Entry fee alone is almost a thousand dollars,” Littlefield said.
More than 100 competitors from all across the United States and internationally will compete in the Black River Stages off-road rally.
For information on Black River Stages, visit nasarallysport.com.