{"id":19214,"date":"2015-06-30T07:19:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T11:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=19214"},"modified":"2015-06-30T06:20:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T10:20:20","slug":"pitkat-doubles-at-stafford-with-vmrs-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/pitkat-doubles-at-stafford-with-vmrs-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitkat Doubles At Stafford With VMRS Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/vmrslogo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9031\" src=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/vmrslogo1.png\" alt=\"vmrslogo1\" width=\"217\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>Stafford, CT. \u2013 Hometown driver Woody Pitkat laid the foundation for a possible season sweep Friday night, when he captured the 80-lap Valenti Modified Racing Series event at Stafford Motor Speedway, Stafford, Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>The win was Pitkat\u2019s second career VMRS victory. both at Stafford, setting the stage for a possible \u2018hat trick\u2019 when the series returns to the famed half-mile oval Friday, September 4.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Pitkat, driving the KBR Motorsports \/ Patterson Farms # 42, started fifth in a 26-car field, took the lead on lap-43 from Steven Masse, of Bellingham, MA, regained the top position following a caution flag restart on lap 62, and was never headed.<\/p>\n<p>Todd Szegedy, of Ridgefield, Ct, finished runner-up, with Chris Pasteryak, of Jewett City, CT finishing third. Masse settled for fourth, with Richard Savary, of Canton MA rounding out the top five.<\/p>\n<p>Sixth through tenth were, Carl Medeiros Jr, who turned in a solid run as did Mike Willis Jr, last years top rookie, Todd Patnode, Dennis Perry, and Dan Meservey Jr. rounded out the top 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stafford, CT. \u2013 Hometown driver Woody Pitkat laid the foundation for a possible season sweep Friday night, when he captured the 80-lap Valenti Modified Racing Series event at Stafford Motor Speedway, Stafford, Connecticut. The win was Pitkat\u2019s second career VMRS victory. both at Stafford, setting the stage for a possible \u2018hat trick\u2019 when the series [&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":[196,197,4716],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-19214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-stafford-connecticut","category-valenti-modified-series","tag-stafford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214","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=19214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19215,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214\/revisions\/19215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}