{"id":18989,"date":"2015-06-05T10:02:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T14:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=18989"},"modified":"2015-06-05T10:02:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T14:02:14","slug":"ryan-preece-hoping-for-repeat-of-2013-performance-in-tsi-harley-davidson-125","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/ryan-preece-hoping-for-repeat-of-2013-performance-in-tsi-harley-davidson-125\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Preece Hoping for Repeat of 2013 Performance in TSI Harley-Davidson 125"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"stafford\"<\/a>Ryan Preece Hoping for Repeat of 2013 Performance in TSI Harley-Davidson 125<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Stafford Springs, CT)—Over the past 5 seasons, the TSI Harley-Davidson 125 has become a championship predictor for the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour. Since 2010, every winner of the TSI Harley-Davidson 125 has gone on to win the championship that season. Ryan Preece accomplished the feat in 2013 and he hopes that he can repeat that 2013 performance this Friday to build on the momentum of his victory last week, his first of the season with his new Ed Partridge owned #6 T.S. Haulers team.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s definitely a good start to the summer,\u201d said Preece. \u201cTommy [Grasso] has been working real hard and we\u2019ve been trying to figure out our new Troyer car. We agreed when we tested [at Waterford] our old car would be better on the longer runs and to go out and win that race and give all the guys a win was pretty cool. We\u2019ll have our new car for the Stafford and Thompson races and I think we\u2019re going to have a strong car this Friday at Stafford. We had a really good car at the Sizzler and I feel like the car is going to be good again. I just want to keep the strong runs we\u2019ve had going and keep on doing what we\u2019ve been doing.\u201d
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As Preece chases his second career NWMT championship, he and Woody Pitkat are the only two drivers this season to have recorded top-5 finishes in each of the first three races of the 2015 season. With the top-3 drivers of Preece, Doug Coby, and Pitkat separated by only 2 points heading into the TSI Harley-Davidson 125, Preece knows the key to the race for the championship is all about being consistent.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis season is going to be about the guys who can stay consistent and win races,\u201d said Preece. \u201cBoth Woody and I have overcome some adversity this season already with him getting a flat tire at Waterford and I hit the wall at Thompson. We both made our way back into the top-5 and we were able to get good finishes. I think the guys we\u2019re going to be battling this Friday are Woody and Bobby Santos. They\u2019ve been really strong and I think they\u2019ll be strong again this Friday night.\u201d<\/p>\n

The last time out at Stafford for the NAPA Spring Sizzler, Preece won the pole position with a near track record lap and he led the most laps before finishing third. While the Sizzler is 200 laps long, the TSI Harley-Davidson race is 75 laps shorter, but Preece says that the lap difference isn\u2019t the biggest difference between the two races.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s not really the laps but it\u2019s more the racetrack,\u201d said Preece. \u201cAs the year goes on, the track starts to lose grip and you start to struggle with the car getting loose getting in the corners. Usually whoever gets that figured out first usually is the dominant car through the NAPA Fall final. Stafford is a tricky track to get a hold of.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with his duties behind the wheel of the #6 T.S. Haulers \/ East\/West Marine car, Preece will join Ted Christopher, Justin Bonsignore, Woody Pitkat, and Rowan Pennink as drivers who will be pulling double duty this Friday between the Whelen Mod Tour and the SK Modifieds\u00ae. Preece enters Friday night with three consecutive podium finishes and he thinks that he and his #6 J.G. Poulin Drywall \/ Sullivan and Sons team are on the verge of breaking down the door to NAPA Victory Lane.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been real consistent this year and we\u2019re working on getting it better,\u201d said Preece. \u201cIt seems like a lot of guys will have their cars good one week and then they\u2019re struggling the next week on older tires where my car is just as good on old tires but we aren\u2019t any better on stickers. We\u2019re trying something different every week and we\u2019re getting closer and closer. I\u2019m excited for the rest of the season and I\u2019m sure Mike Paquette will get us dialed in. We\u2019re making gains and progress with the car and that\u2019s what I\u2019m most happy about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ryan Preece Hoping for Repeat of 2013 Performance in TSI Harley-Davidson 125 (Stafford Springs, CT)—Over the past 5 seasons, the TSI Harley-Davidson 125 has become a championship predictor for the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour. Since 2010, every winner of the TSI Harley-Davidson 125 has gone on to win the championship that season. Ryan Preece accomplished […]<\/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-18989","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\/18989","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=18989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18990,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18989\/revisions\/18990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}