{"id":17445,"date":"2015-01-01T02:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T07:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=17445"},"modified":"2015-01-01T22:59:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T03:59:24","slug":"justin-bonsignore-run-stafford-sk-modifeds-2015-art-barry-car-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/justin-bonsignore-run-stafford-sk-modifeds-2015-art-barry-car-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Bonsignore to Run Stafford SK Modifeds\u00ae in 2015 With Art Barry as Car Owner"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cZcZ\"<\/a>(Stafford Springs, CT)—As number registrations continue to file in and the Stafford Motor Speedway NASCAR Whelen All-American Series rosters begin to take shape, the track\u2019s premier SK Modified\u00ae division has just added another NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour driver for the 2015 season. Reigning Valenti Modified Racing Series champion Justin Bonsignore will join the SK Modified\u00ae ranks behind the wheel of Art Barry\u2019s #21 car and will race for the championship<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re going to try it every week,\u201d said Barry. \u201cWe\u2019ve won 2 championships in the MRS and the plan is to start out, see what we can do, and see if we can find a sponsor along the way. Justin wants to race at Stafford, I think the seat time will help him in other series at Stafford and it will be nice for me to come back home and race.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is awesome, especially to be able to do it with Art and Ken Barry,\u201d said Bonsignore. \u201cI\u2019ve gotten to know them really well the last couple years and we have had a lot of success in the MRS series. I think we were all looking to do something different this year, I\u2019ve been wanting an SK deal at Stafford for a long time and it\u2019s definitely a track that I\u2019m looking to get some more seat time at. The competition at Stafford is second to none, it\u2019s like a tour race every Friday night, and we\u2019re glad that we\u2019re going to be part of it. We\u2019d like to be able to contend for the championship and I think we\u2019ll be a really good team. Weekly racing is a little different from Tour racing with the amount of tires and the handicapping system, so it\u2019ll definitely be a challenge. Stafford has the most competitive field in the Northeast but we\u2019re hoping we can be in contention every week and hopefully win a couple of races. I don\u2019t see why we can\u2019t be a contender. I\u2019m really excited, I want to get the season started already. I like working with Art and Kenny and I think we\u2019re going to have a good time.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Bonsignore has logged plenty of laps in Whelen Modified Tour competition at Stafford over the past five seasons, he will be a rookie behind the wheel of an SK Modified\u00ae car. Despite his lack of experience, Bonsignore says he is familiar with the sprint race format from his days at Riverhead and that he and the Barry team have everything they need to be competitive right from the start.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s going to depend on how we come out of the box,\u201d said Bonsignore. \u201cWe\u2019ll have the open practice and at least I\u2019m not going to a new track. I just have to adapt to a new driving style to run in an SK car. I\u2019m used to the sprint race distance from racing at Riverhead, so I don\u2019t think that will be a big deal. I\u2019m always confident that we\u2019ll adapt to things quickly and that we\u2019ll be able to compete right out of the box, but you always have to be ready for the other side of things, you never know. I\u2019m hoping that I can get comfortable with the track and I know it\u2019s a little different between a Tour car and an SK car.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bonsignore and the Barry team have yet to settle on an engine builder, but Bonsignore will be piloting a brand new SPAFCO chassis as he makes his SK Modified\u00ae debut. And as Bonsignore says, \u201cit\u2019s always nice to be driving new equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe haven\u2019t even started building the car yet,\u201d said Bonsignore. \u201cThey\u2019re taking the MRS car that I drove to the championship this year and that is going to be Matt Swanson\u2019s car in the SK Lights and they\u2019re going to build a brand new car for this year. New cars are always nice to drive and we\u2019re going to go all out, that\u2019s for sure. The MRS car was a great car and my tour car was a sister car to the MRS car and we had a lot of success. I think we learned a lot this year and Kenny has put some new ideas together to come out with a newer design and we\u2019ll also have another new SPAFCO car for the Tour with the #51 team. Kenny always builds great stuff so I have no worries, I think we\u2019re going to be good. The engine is the one mystery still. We\u2019ve talked with a few different people and we\u2019re going to mull it over a little longer over the holidays and hopefully we\u2019ll know around the first of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Stafford Springs, CT)—As number registrations continue to file in and the Stafford Motor Speedway NASCAR Whelen All-American Series rosters begin to take shape, the track\u2019s premier SK Modified\u00ae division has just added another NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour driver for the 2015 season. Reigning Valenti Modified Racing Series champion Justin Bonsignore will join the SK Modified\u00ae […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":[15662],"class_list":["post-17445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-stafford-connecticut","tag-stafford-sk-modifeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17445","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17447,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17445\/revisions\/17447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}