{"id":25087,"date":"2019-05-13T21:08:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T01:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=25087"},"modified":"2019-05-13T21:08:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T01:08:52","slug":"woody-pitkat-eager-to-be-part-of-inaugural-bullring-bash-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2019\/05\/woody-pitkat-eager-to-be-part-of-inaugural-bullring-bash-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Woody Pitkat eager to be part of inaugural Bullring Bash campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Woody Pitkat eager to be part of inaugural Bullring Bash campaign<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As the Bullring Bash Quarter Mile Challenge prepares to get its first season started, modified racing wheelmen are making their presence known on the entry list, putting the \u201cstar\u201d in \u201call-star.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Woody Pitkat, a two-time Valenti Modified Racing Series champion and a three-time Whelen Modified Tour race winner, is planning to run all three of the Bullring Bash races. The Connecticut native is excited to bring competitive modified racing to new tracks further north in New England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to be heading to some new tracks that I haven\u2019t really ventured out at,\u201d said Pitkat. \u201cI always liked going to tracks I haven\u2019t been to before and doing a little bit of traveling\u2026 It\u2019ll probably be a little bit different of a fan aspect because we\u2019re going somewhere we haven\u2019t been at.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019ll be nice to go out and try to grab some new fans and get some attention to some people up in that area that probably haven\u2019t seen modifieds up at those tracks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was Pitkat\u2019s car owner Stan Mertz that encouraged Pitkat to drive in Bullring Bash in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know much about it at first until Stan told me about it,\u201d Pitkat said. \u201cThe Bullring Bash, I think, grabbed his attention more than mine, and we started looking into it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The staff organized by Bullring Bash founder Josh Vanada was another reason Pitkat chose to throw his hat into the ring for the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve worked with [Josh] in the past at Thompson, and I feel like I have a pretty good relationship with him,\u201d Pitkat said. \u201cHe did a really good job when he was at Thompson. A lot of the guys he has there, tech officials and regular officials, it looks like it\u2019s going to be a promising thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pitkat expects that there will be many more household names that commit to Bullring Bash this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think a lot of the people that we get, I would imagine, would be the same familiar faces we have at these other open races,\u201d said Pitkat. \u201cI think a majority of the people that I\u2019ve always raced with, I\u2019ve had a lot of respect for.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first race on the Bullring Bash schedule, currently slated for June 16 at White Mountain Motorsports Park, is one Pitkat has circled on his calendar. After all, there is only one inaugural race to win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt would be really cool,\u201d said Pitkat on winning the first-ever Bullring Bash race. \u201cI think that out of the box, we\u2019ll hopefully be a contender and if not, we should be able to be consistently in the top-five.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Woody Pitkat eager to be part of inaugural Bullring Bash campaign As the Bullring Bash Quarter Mile Challenge prepares to get its first season started, modified racing wheelmen are making their presence known on the entry list, putting the \u201cstar\u201d in \u201call-star.\u201d Woody Pitkat, a two-time Valenti Modified Racing Series champion and a three-time Whelen […]<\/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-25087","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\/25087","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=25087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25088,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25087\/revisions\/25088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}