Rising Up
Blewett raced go karts at the age of 14. He races at tracks such as New Egypt Speedway (paved), and the closed Flemington Speedway. He won quite a few races until he gave it up altogether at age 16. At 18, Blewett drove his first race car at Wall Township Speedway in the last four events of the 1999 season in a Pro Stock (Now Sportsman). When that year ended, he moved into a Modified. The car was painted Red, White, and Blue with #76 on it. It was not his number at first, it was his father John Jr. who was a driver before he retired in 1993, had that number.
In the start of the 2000 season, John III drove the car in the first two races at Wall. The first week, finishing second to Tim Arre, and second week crashed out and credited 22nd. The third week on, Blewett started to finish some of the races in the top 10, few in the top 15, a couple in the top 5, and seven days before his 20th birthday he snagged his first career win. Blewett ended up sixteenth in the points because he got into a few skirmishes with other competitors which drawn him to suspension so, Blewett went to race at the Flemington Speedway, and he raced only three events which it did not seem gel. Not long, he receive a phone call from Wall that they wanted him to return to the track. During that year, Blewett won a race at Chemung Speedrome, and he was close to running out of fuel.
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