{"id":18483,"date":"2015-04-10T10:21:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T14:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=18483"},"modified":"2015-04-10T07:23:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T11:23:09","slug":"troy-talman-looking-forward-to-making-napa-spring-sizzler-debut-with-legendary-3-ole-blue-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/troy-talman-looking-forward-to-making-napa-spring-sizzler-debut-with-legendary-3-ole-blue-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy Talman Looking Forward to Making NAPA Spring Sizzler Debut With Legendary #3 \u2018Ole Blue\u2019 Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"fasfrter\"<\/a>(Stafford Springs, CT)—When the green flag falls on the 44th Annual NAPA Spring Sizzler this season, Oxford, MA native Troy Talman will find himself making his Sizzler debut in one of the most recognizable rides on the Whelen Modified Tour. Talman teamed up with the #3 Boehler Family team for the 2014 season ending race and that relationship has blossomed into a full-time ride for the 2015 season with sponsorship from Cape Cod Copper, Riverview Industries, and NAPA Ayer Auto Parts.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe plan is to run the whole season,\u201d said Talman. \u201cLast year I gave the Boehler\u2019s a call because the car wasn\u2019t running to see if we could work out a deal. I got along really well with the crew guys, especially Greg Fournier and Scott Richards. We didn\u2019t really have any time to shake the car down beforehand and the first practice session was my first time driving a Modified Tour car. I think we were around 19th in practice, we qualified 23rd, and the race went pretty well. I got a lot of experience and I\u2019m ready for the season. It\u2019s really cool to be driving for the Boehler family in such a legendary car and I\u2019m very thankful for the opportunity. The Boehler team has a really good system of how they do things at the shop and my dad and I have been helping them at the shop doing what they tell us we need to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Talman is still new to the world of Whelen Modified Tour competition, his track experience at Stafford should be a big help. Talman came to Stafford for the first time in 2013 where he ran in the SK Light division. In only his second race at Stafford, Talman piloted his family owned car to victory lane and he ended the season third in the points standings. Talman\u2019s ability to quickly adapt to new situations and surroundings will be an asset to him as he will see some of the tracks on the NWMT schedule for the very first time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThompson, Stafford, and Waterford are 3 tracks that are pretty crucial to have success on the Tour,\u201d said Talman. \u201cAnd the tracks that I haven\u2019t been to yet, I feel like I have the ability to adjust quickly to them. In 2011 I used to travel all over new England with my dad with our Legend Car and I seemed to adjust to those tracks pretty quickly and I\u2019m hoping I can do that again. I\u2019m really excited. The Sizzler will be the longest race I\u2019ve ever participated in and we\u2019ll see how it goes. My ultimate goal is to finish all the laps, be there at the end of the race, and if we could come out of there with a top-10, that would be amazing. I\u2019m not expecting to go out there and win in my first Sizzler. The plan is to not use your car up early on and make sure you\u2019re there at the end of the race. You almost have to ride around until you come into the pits for tires and then you can try to charge towards the front.\u201d<\/p>\n

Talman says that his main focus during the 2015 season will be his Whelen Modified Tour effort, but he says that he could also make a couple of starts in the SK Modified\u00ae division as well this season.
\n\u201cWe\u2019re going to focus on the Tour stuff this season but you might see us for a race or two for the SK Modifieds\u00ae,\u201d said Talman. \u201cThe car is all ready to go and you might see us out there for the NAPA SK 5k. Rookie of the Year would be nice but we\u2019re kind of on a one race at a time approach and you can\u2019t look at the big picture because you\u2019ll lose track of what you\u2019re focusing on right now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Stafford Springs, CT)—When the green flag falls on the 44th Annual NAPA Spring Sizzler this season, Oxford, MA native Troy Talman will find himself making his Sizzler debut in one of the most recognizable rides on the Whelen Modified Tour. Talman teamed up with the #3 Boehler Family team for the 2014 season ending race […]<\/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":[196,45,197,14972,15329],"tags":[15677],"class_list":["post-18483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-nascar","category-stafford-connecticut","category-touring-series-news","category-whelen-all-american-series","tag-stafford-springs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18483","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=18483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18484,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18483\/revisions\/18484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}