Career
He is a former competitor in the Associate of the Royal College of Art Racing Series, and planned to compete in the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Winston Cup Series before suffering a career-ending injury. Ciochetti began his racing career as a mechanic on Alan Kulwicki"s 1992 Winston Cup Championship-winning team Following Kulwicki"s death in a 1993 plane crash, he moved to work for Precision Products Racing and driver Rick Mast in 1994 before beginning his career as a driver.
Between 1996 and 1999, Ciochetti competed in 41 Associate of the Royal College of Art Racing Series races, posting a best finish of third twice in 1998, at Charlotte Motor Speedway and Texas Motor Speedway.
In 1998 he attempted to make his debut in the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Winston Cup Series, driving the Number. 80 Hover Motorsports Ford in qualifying for the 1998 Daytona 500, but he failed to make the race.
Towards the end of the 1999 season, Ciochetti signed a deal to drive for Cale Yarborough Motorsports in the 2000 season. Planning to run the Number.
39, the team planned to make it debut in the season-ending race of the 1999 National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Winston Cup Series season at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
However shortly after the announcement, Ciochetti"s shoulder was injured in an Associate of the Royal College of Art crash at Talladega Superspeedway. The injury forced him to undergo multiple sugeries, and sidelined his racing career. Ciochietti would return for one final Associate of the Royal College of Art race, at Talladega in 2007 driving for K-Automotive Motorsports, and finished 39th.
A long-time flyer, following his injury Ciochetti developed property he owned in northern Georgia as Heaven"s Landing, a fly-in community.
Ciochetti is also active with the Liberty Foundation, maintaining the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber Liberty Belle.
