{"id":19984,"date":"2015-10-19T09:44:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T13:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=19984"},"modified":"2015-10-19T09:44:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T13:44:55","slug":"rocco-wins-vmrs-thompson-world-series-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/rocco-wins-vmrs-thompson-world-series-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocco Wins VMRS \u2013 Thompson World Series 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/vmrslogo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/vmrslogo1.png\" alt=\"Valenti Modified Racing Series\" width=\"217\" height=\"140\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15750\" \/><\/a><strong>Rocco Wins VMRS \u2013 Thompson World Series 50 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Thompson, CT.) &#8212; Keith Rocco of Wallingford, CT., started outside front row, fought off the challenges of Todd Szegedy and later Woody Pitkat, to go on and win the 50-lap Valenti Modified Racing Series season finale at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park, Thompson, CT Saturday night., October 17, <\/p>\n<p>The win was Rocco\u2019s second VMRS at Thompson and his 6th career series win.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a great car all year all the races we ran we should have contended for a lot more wins and had a lot more than we did. But gotta thank everyone on my team they worked real hard.\u201d Rocco stated in victory lane. <\/p>\n<p>Rocco added, \u201cCongratulations to (Woody) Pitkat I knew he wasn\u2019t going to force the issue this thing was just fast tonight.\u201d   <\/p>\n<p>Pitkat, of Stafford Springs, CT, Dave Etheridge of Portland, CT, Jon McKennedy, of E. Chelmsford, MA, and Chris Pasteryak, of Jewett City, CT, rounded out the top five. Pasteryak made a late race charge only to fall short. Pitkat, with his solid second place finish, won the 2015 VMRS Championship, his first with the series. <\/p>\n<p>Sixth through tenth finishers were Rowan Pennink, Dylan Kopec, Mike Keeler, Anthony Nocella, and Eric Berndt. <\/p>\n<p>29 cars started the final race of the season that took 44 minutes to complete. 17 cars finished on the lead lap.<\/p>\n<p>Race Summary:<br \/>\nThompson Speedway Motorsports Park<br \/>\nOctober 17, 2015<br \/>\nRace # 14<br \/>\nEntrants (29)<br \/>\nDistance: 50-laps<br \/>\nTime: 44:39.808<br \/>\nMargin of Victory: 0.558<br \/>\nBest Speed: Ted Christopher 118.583<br \/>\nLap Time: 18.974<br \/>\nAverage Speed: 42.267 <\/p>\n<p>Unofficial Order of Finish: (1) Rocco, (2) Pitkat (3) Etheridge, (4) McKennedy, (5) Pasteryak, (6) Pennink, (7) Kopec, (8) Keeler, (9) Nocella, (10) Berndt, (11) Medeiros, (12) Wrenn (13) Doucette, (14) Lashua (15)<br \/>\nMeservey (16) Dion (17) Sherman, (18) Szegedy, (19) Iannarelli, (20) Schneider, (210 Perry, (22) LeClerc, (23) Drown, (24) Anello, (25) Christopher, (26) Jensen, (27) Patnode, (28) Fournier, (29) Seidell. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocco Wins VMRS \u2013 Thompson World Series 50 (Thompson, CT.) &#8212; Keith Rocco of Wallingford, CT., started outside front row, fought off the challenges of Todd Szegedy and later Woody Pitkat, to go on and win the 50-lap Valenti Modified Racing Series season finale at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park, Thompson, CT Saturday night., October 17, [&hellip;]<\/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":[196,41,4716],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-thompson","category-valenti-modified-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19984","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=19984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19985,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19984\/revisions\/19985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}