{"id":19835,"date":"2015-09-04T11:20:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T15:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=19835"},"modified":"2015-09-04T11:20:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T15:20:26","slug":"rowan-pennink-ryan-preece-separated-by-only-26-points-in-sk-mod-championship-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/rowan-pennink-ryan-preece-separated-by-only-26-points-in-sk-mod-championship-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowan Pennink & Ryan Preece Separated by Only 26 Points in SK Mod Championship Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"stafford\"<\/a>Rowan Pennink & Ryan Preece Separated by Only 26 Points in SK Mod Championship Chase<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Stafford Springs, CT)—For the majority of the 2015 SK Modified\u00ae season, Rowan Pennink and the #99 NAPA Van Wickle Auto Supply team have been in control of the race for the championship. They won the season opening NAPA Spring Sizzler feature and have been at the top of the points standings for all but a few weeks of the season. <\/p>\n

While they have been the dominant team with 6 wins and 15 top-5 finishes, Pennink only has a 26 point lead over the #6 East West Marine \/ Sullivan & Sons team of Ryan Preece. Preece has been the most consistent driver with 17 top-5 finishes, but he trails Pennink in wins by a 6-2 margin and in top-5 finishes by a 15-13 margin. With a 26-point deficit to make up over the final four races, Preece knows that his team has to raise their game and get back to NAPA Victory Lane.
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\u201cI think we have to do something different since we\u2019re behind,\u201d said Preece. \u201cWe haven\u2019t exactly been the dominant car this season so that makes winning races tougher, but that\u2019s why we work every single week to make the car better. We know where on the racetrack we need to be better and we just need to figure out what we need to do to be a little bit better in that area. Hopefully this week will be the week for us to get things changed around and if we can do that, everything else should take care of itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Preece will be in search of getting his car better, the plan for Pennink and his team is to continue the dominant run that they\u2019ve been on since getting their first win together in last year\u2019s NAPA SK 5k. In the 28 races run at Stafford since that SK 5k win, Pennink has recorded 11 wins, 23 top-5, and 25 top-10 finishes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019ve been doing has been working pretty well with the exception of 1 or 2 races this year so we\u2019ll stick with that and try to stay out of trouble,\u201d said Pennink. \u201cIf we can keep on doing that we should have a good end to the season. We\u2019re going to go for wins. Late in the season, a win is going to be the best points night we can have so that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to try to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the difference between Pennink and Preece in the number of wins and top-5 finishes this season, both drivers feel like they\u2019ve been pretty evenly matched throughout the course of the 2015 season. They also both recognize that they\u2019re going to have to contend with the #59 team of Ronnie Williams down the stretch if they want to add to their season win total.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems like we\u2019ve been pretty evenly matched,\u201d said Pennink. \u201cObviously we have a couple more wins than they do but it seems like lately whichever one of us gets ahead of the other first is going to have the better finish. The 59 car has been real tough to beat the last couple weeks so we\u2019re ready to get back to the track and see if we can beat the 59 car and the 6 car.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like right now the 59 car is the dominant car and there\u2019s a lot of cars that are getting better and better each week where earlier in the year it was Rowan and myself that were the dominant cars,\u201d said Preece. \u201cThat adds a lot to this championship chase and you don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen week to week. We\u2019ve been consistent all year long and we have everything we need to win, we just need that little bit extra in the racecar and a little bit of luck.\u201d<\/p>\n

With 4 races left on the 2015 calendar, Preece needs to shave just over 6 points, which would be 3 or 4 positions a night, off of Pennink\u2019s lead to overcome the 26 point deficit. As both drivers know, anything can happen down the stretch and with how close both cars have been all year long, it promises to be an exciting and thrilling conclusion to the race for the 2015 SK Modified\u00ae championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rowan Pennink & Ryan Preece Separated by Only 26 Points in SK Mod Championship Chase (Stafford Springs, CT)—For the majority of the 2015 SK Modified\u00ae season, Rowan Pennink and the #99 NAPA Van Wickle Auto Supply team have been in control of the race for the championship. They won the season opening NAPA Spring Sizzler […]<\/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-19835","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\/19835","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=19835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19836,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19835\/revisions\/19836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}