{"id":17232,"date":"2014-11-07T20:07:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T01:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=17232"},"modified":"2014-11-08T20:08:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T01:08:12","slug":"ryan-preece-ready-chase-sk-modifiedr-track-championship-2015-strong-team-new-car-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/ryan-preece-ready-chase-sk-modifiedr-track-championship-2015-strong-team-new-car-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Preece Ready to Chase SK ModifiedR Track Championship in 2015 With Strong Team and New Car Number"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Stafford Springs, CT)—Over the past 2 seasons of SK Modified\u00ae racing at Stafford Motor Speedway, Ryan Preece has had a dominant car and been the driver to beat. Preece has racked up a total of 14 feature victories, which equates to a winning percentage of 40% or one victory every 2.5 starts in 2013 and 2014. As the off-season begins and anticipation for the 2015 season begins to build, Preece is excited about his plans for the 2015 season.<\/p>\n

Preece will team with Jean-Guy and Brigitte Poulin along with Mike Pauqette and his family to form PPP Racing as he chases after his second career SK Modified\u00ae championship. Preece\u2019s car number will change from 2 to 6 to mimic his new ride with Eddie Partridge on the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour but the car will be the same car that Preece has piloted to his 14 wins over the past 2 seasons.
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\u201cWe\u2019re going to change the car number to 6, but it will be the same car I\u2019ve ran for the past couple of years,\u201d said Preece. \u201cWe\u2019re going to run the car out of my house in Berlin and it\u2019s going to be Mike Paquette, the Poulins with the engines, Sullivan and Sons, the Barnes\u2019 from NAPA Canton, and we\u2019re going to go after that title in 2015. The crew will be same as it was this year minus Steve Greer\u2019s Gunsmoke Stables guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

As dominant as Preece has been in Stafford\u2019s SK Modified\u00ae ranks, he hasn\u2019t yet been able to add a second track championship to his title that he won in 2011. Preece has been agonizingly close to winning the SK Modified\u00ae crown in 2013 and 2014, but both years he came up short of winning the championship by the smallest of margins, 2 points or one position on the track. Preece lost out to Woody Pitkat in 2013 and then Ted Christopher this past season. Despite his missing out on winning a second SK Modified\u00ae championship, Preece is excited and confident heading into the 2015 season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThings are going to be the same as they have been but it\u2019s exciting because everyone is looking forward to going back to the track and getting the year started,\u201d said Preece. \u201cWe\u2019ve had strong runs in the past and we\u2019re looking forward to having more strong runs in the future. I was disappointed knowing how bad the Poulin\u2019s wanted to win the championship, how bad everyone on the team wanted to win it, and obviously I wanted it bad. Sometimes things aren\u2019t meant to work out the way you want them to but we\u2019re not quitters. We\u2019re just going to keep on going forward and trying to win the championship and continue the success we\u2019ve had winning races. We\u2019ve won almost 50% of the races the last 2 seasons, so I think that\u2019s a pretty big accomplishment. We race to win and that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to continue to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

As good as things were on track during the past 2 years, Preece says that things could be even better for the #6 team once the green flag falls on the 2015 season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hit on some things at the end of the year and made the car better and better so I would expect to be even better next season,\u201d said Preece. \u201cI have all the faith in the world in Mike Paquette and CD Chassis and Pettit Racing Engines, so I\u2019m really looking forward to it. It seemed like we were ahead of the game at the beginning of the year and we kind of lost it a little in the middle. We came on strong at the end and that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to try to carry over to start off the 2015 season. We\u2019re going to work harder in the off-season to see if we can get a little more grip in the car and be even better. We\u2019ll look at our notebook from years past and see what we have to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Starting strong out of the gate has been a trademark of Preece. In 2013, Preece won the first two SK Modified\u00ae features and 4 of the first 8 and he followed that up by winning the first three races of the 2014 season and 4 of first 6. If Preece can repeat that strong start and avoid coming back to the pack during the middle of the season, he may prove to be hard to beat in the quest for the 2015 SK Modified\u00ae championship at Stafford Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Stafford Springs, CT)—Over the past 2 seasons of SK Modified\u00ae racing at Stafford Motor Speedway, Ryan Preece has had a dominant car and been the driver to beat. Preece has racked up a total of 14 feature victories, which equates to a winning percentage of 40% or one victory every 2.5 starts in 2013 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[196,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-stafford-connecticut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17233,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17232\/revisions\/17233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}