{"id":24715,"date":"2019-03-02T09:45:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T14:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=24715"},"modified":"2019-03-02T09:45:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T14:45:47","slug":"osullivan-branching-out-in-2019-with-bullring-bash%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2019\/03\/osullivan-branching-out-in-2019-with-bullring-bash%ef%bb%bf\/","title":{"rendered":"O\u2019Sullivan Branching Out in 2019 with Bullring Bash\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Attleboro, Massachusetts (February 27, 2019)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 One of the Northeast\u2019s top young Legend Car drivers will expand beyond his Connecticut roots in 2019 with the Bullring Bash Quarter Mile Challenge. Salem, CT\u2019s John O\u2019Sullivan has sent in his entry for the Bullring Bash MSD Legends and plans to run each of the three $1,500-to-win all-star events.
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\u201cOnce we saw this was going to be a series that wasn\u2019t a full 20-race schedule and was short where we could do it, we talked and decided (running) it was going to be a no-brainer,\u201d O\u2019Sullivan said. \u201cThe best guys in the Northeast are going to be racing here, and it has the top payouts in the Northeast. So it\u2019s kind of a no-brainer to go run it, see how you stack up, and get some extra cash.\u201d

O\u2019Sullivan has been one of the drivers to beat in multiple divisions at The New London-Waterford Speedbowl the past two seasons. In 2017, he finished second in both the Wednesday Pro Legends and Saturday Masters Legends divisions with three combined wins. O\u2019Sullivan also finished third in SK Lite Modified points that year.

For 2018, he concentrated his Legend Car efforts on the Wednesday Legends series, taking second in the final standings again with five wins. In the SK Lite Mods, he ended up seventh in points despite only starting 10 of the 13 events. In addition, O\u2019Sullivan finished second in a NELCAR Legends event at Star Speedway in September.

The 2019 season will see O\u2019Sullivan branch out beyond his home track. He stated that he is not racing weekly at any tracks; instead, he and his team will travel around the region to various speedways with a focus on having fun and trying to win races. O\u2019Sullivan already started his 2019 campaign by heading to Inverness, FL\u2019s Citrus County Speedway for the five-race Pro Legends series of the 22nd<\/sup>\u00a0Annual Winter Nationals as part of Speedweeks.

Later this year, he will take on N. Woodstock, NH\u2019s White Mountain Motorsports Park and Barre, VT\u2019s Thunder Road Speedbowl for the first time as part of the Bullring Bash. O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s #51 will carry sponsorship from SERVPRO of Windham County (CT), Bozrah Collison, and Critical Signs at the three events.

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be different,\u201d O\u2019Sullivan said. \u201cI\u2019ve never even been to either track to watch a race, and I haven\u2019t seen any video on either track. So practice is going to be very key. We\u2019re going to have to learn the track very fast and see how quickly we can learn it, adapt to it, and what we can do to make it work.\u201d

Luckily, O\u2019Sullivan will have additional feedback to work with. For his Bullring Bash MSD Legends campaign, O\u2019Sullivan is part a two-car effort with his friend Jordan Churchill, who ran his back-up car six times in 2018. Jordan\u2019s father Wally will be the crew chief for both cars.

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be huge,\u201d O\u2019Sullivan remarked. \u201cJordan and I started the same year in Legend Cars, and I had never raced anything before a Legend Car, so it was huge to get into it with somebody you know. Our friendship has just grown from there, and his dad is very, very good with setups. With our setup at Waterford last year, we won nearly half the races we entered. His dad is very smart, and Jordan is a good driver, so we have two cars to try things, learn, and see what we can do.\u201d

\u201cI think this series is huge,\u201d he concluded. \u201cI know there\u2019s a lot of people talking about it, and there\u2019s a lot of people thinking of going. The payout alone is going to attract people. Then once you talk about it being a little series, people are going to want to go for a couple extra races and not just one big-money race.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Attleboro, Massachusetts (February 27, 2019)\u00a0\u2014 One of the Northeast\u2019s top young Legend Car drivers will expand beyond his Connecticut roots in 2019 with the Bullring Bash Quarter Mile Challenge. Salem, CT\u2019s John O\u2019Sullivan has sent in his entry for the Bullring Bash MSD Legends and plans to run each of the three $1,500-to-win all-star events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bullring-bash","category-touring-series-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24716,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24715\/revisions\/24716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}