AJ Catanzaro

jndmx
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Edited Date/Time 1/26/2012 8:13am
Congrat's on wrapping up the 2010 AX Lites West championship!!

All of us here in New England are proud of you AJ, it has been great watching you racing and progressing through the sport all these years.
I know your dad must be bursting with pride.

Big props to the GPF/Babbits team for taking a chance on AJ along with all of the sponsors that have been behind this kid.

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3/29/2010 11:18am Edited Date/Time 3/29/2010 11:19am
Congrats, AJ.
I think he is to young to do the outdoors this year with the rule change. Could be wrong though.

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3/29/2010 11:57am
Excelent job AJ,
is he racing outdoors?
I'm not sure what the plan is at this point I am going to try and get hold of his dad later in the week and see what AJ doing.

Some of it may depend on the ride that is available, I don't know if GPF\Babbits team is running outdoors.

It would be awesome to see AJ and his team mate Dano who won the East Coast Lites title out there for the nationals.

It also depends on where he is with the rule change as suzrider92 mentioned.

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3/29/2010 6:51pm
If you told me 1 year ago that it would happen this fast, I'd say you're crazy. At one time he had limited support and isn't the richest dude. But you have to give it to his dad Tony, the guy will spend his last dime for this career of AJ's.
I'm so happy for them, they really deserve it.
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3/29/2010 7:12pm
Nice work AJ! It was great to race with you and Dano all season. Class acts all the way around.

Talking to Josh and understanding the rules as they are, I think AJ is too young to get a pro license, so the outdoor nats are gonna have to wait, unfortunately.

No matter, his time will come, he's only 16. Nice to meet the whole fam in San Antonio too.
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3/29/2010 7:30pm Edited Date/Time 3/29/2010 7:33pm
Yeah AJ and Tony have been working and scraping for a long time to get here, sleeping in a van, with a borrowed trailer and just a handful of dedicated sponsors....it is just so nice to see him get this ride and take the title.

The whole family has been pitching in and helping them to keep going...aunts uncles cousins.....just a blue collar family working towards a dream.

Nice polite kid and a dad who absolutely would give it all for his son.

I have been watching this kid race since he was on a Polini, it really makes me happy to see this.
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3/29/2010 7:32pm
As a former New Englander.. ( New England will always be in my heart) Congrats to AJ and his whole family and sponsors!
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3/29/2010 8:26pm
JND - it sounds like you know the Catanzaro family, so here is an off the wall question.

About 10-12 years ago, I was working at a ski resort outside of Pittsburgh (Seven Springs) and I remember there was a little kid that used to attend the ski shool there named AJ Catanzaro. For some reason, I thought his family was from CT but they had relatives in the western PA area they would visit.

He has a name that isn't easily forgotten and when I started seeing this name show up in the amateur results a few years ago, I wondered if it was the same AJ. If so, tell him that the Seven Springs crew is proud of his accomplishments!
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3/29/2010 8:39pm Edited Date/Time 4/17/2016 9:45pm
Intense Rider

JND, wouldn't you say that maybe it would be on his moms side if anything. Catanzaro is a true name from the italian host city of Middletown CT where his family is from. (Oddly enough where Jimmy Ellis was born and if I'm not mistaken, John Finkelday also.)

So he has some really big moto-shoe to fill out there.


Maybe it was him.
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3/30/2010 6:12am Edited Date/Time 3/30/2010 7:02am
I have gotten to know Tony and AJ more in the last 5-6 years, before that just knew he was that crazy fast kid on the #30....lol.

IntenseRider;

I know they grew up just down the road from a ski place in Middlefield, right down the road from Middletown I'll have to ask if they have family in PA.

If it is him I'll pass along the congrats.

Think you are right about Finkelday Sonny but I'm not sure.

You guys would actually be surprised at how popular a name Catanzaro is......63 listed in CT alone....lol.
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3/30/2010 8:08am
good for him. he definitely deserved it, congrats aj Smile

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