{"id":19122,"date":"2015-06-18T04:21:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T08:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=19122"},"modified":"2015-06-18T02:22:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T06:22:33","slug":"jeff-malave-set-for-return-to-stafford-speedways-sk-modified-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/jeff-malave-set-for-return-to-stafford-speedways-sk-modified-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Malave Set For Return to Stafford Speedway\u2019s SK Modified\u00ae Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/srdvxdrsd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19123\" src=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/srdvxdrsd.jpg\" alt=\"srdvxdrsd\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a>(Stafford Springs, CT)&#8212;In what is already regarded as one of the best fields of short track racers in the entire country, Stafford Speedway\u2019s SK Modified\u00ae division will welcome a former feature winner back to its ranks this Friday night when Jeff Malave makes his 2015 season debut behind the wheel of his #23 Soundwood Builders Chevy. Malave won 7 SK Modified\u00ae features between the 1999-2009 seasons and during that time he posted seven top-10 finishes in the points standings. Although Malave has made a few starts in the Valenti Modified Racing Series, he is excited about making his first SK Modified\u00ae start at Stafford since midway through the 2011 season.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really missed being part of weekly racing at Stafford,\u201d said Malave. \u201cI have been sitting in the stands and watching everyone have fun out on the track and the competition is just fantastic. I\u2019m hoping to come back out and have some fun. The main goal is to be able to have some racing fun again and we\u2019re going to work on getting the car into victory lane. The competition is pretty stiff right now in the SK\u2019s and we might be a little rusty, but we\u2019re going to give it our best shot. I\u2019m very exited to be racing at Stafford once again. It\u2019s the premier track in the northeast and we hope we can be competitive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Malave shouldn\u2019t find it too hard to find some speed upon his return as he has both a personal knowledge of the track and his car has championship pedigree at Stafford. Malave purchased the former #28 car that Zach Aszklar piloted to an SK Light championship in 2012 and he has his 7 career wins and over 15 years of SK Modified\u00ae experience to rely on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been busy trying to get the car together,\u201d said Malave. \u201cWe bought it from Zach Aszklar and we\u2019ve been going all through the car. I talked to Mike Paquette from CD about the car and it\u2019s a good car and it actually just came off the jig at CD. We have a good motor from Tony at T\/A Engines, and I can\u2019t wait to get back. I\u2019ve missed it and I\u2019ve always enjoyed racing at Stafford.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Stafford Springs, CT)&#8212;In what is already regarded as one of the best fields of short track racers in the entire country, Stafford Speedway\u2019s SK Modified\u00ae division will welcome a former feature winner back to its ranks this Friday night when Jeff Malave makes his 2015 season debut behind the wheel of his #23 Soundwood Builders [&hellip;]<\/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":[15677],"class_list":["post-19122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-stafford-connecticut","tag-stafford-springs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19122","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=19122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19124,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19122\/revisions\/19124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}