{"id":20450,"date":"2016-04-08T09:25:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T13:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=20450"},"modified":"2016-04-08T09:25:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T13:25:51","slug":"tyler-trott-ready-to-challenge-for-dare-stock-track-title-at-stafford-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/tyler-trott-ready-to-challenge-for-dare-stock-track-title-at-stafford-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Trott Ready to Challenge for DARE Stock Track Title at Stafford Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"STAFFORD-TRACK-LOGO\"Tyler Trott Ready to Challenge for DARE Stock Track Title at Stafford Speedway<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Stafford Springs, CT)—After winning three races and finishing second in the points standings last season, Stafford Speedway DARE Stock driver Tyler Trott is ready to contend for the 2016 track championship. Trott heads into the 2016 season ready to build on his solid 2015 performance and climb one rung higher in the points standings at season\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re hoping we can pick right up where we left off last year and come out of the gate strong,\u201d said Trott. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of drivers coming back, I think we\u2019re going to have a good car count, and hopefully we can get the car up front again.\u201d
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Trott had a somewhat under the radar start to his DARE Stock career with no top-5 and 4 top-10 finishes as a rookie in 2014, but the 2015 season was a totally different story for Trott and his #11 Jet Motorsports. The team racked up 3 wins, 19 top-5, and 20 top-10 finishes in 22 starts last season to finish second in the championship behind Frank L\u2019Etoile, Jr. and while last season might have struck the #11 team as a surprise, they are ready to come out of the box with guns blazing as they look to build on their 2015 season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think last year was a surprise for us,\u201d said Trott. \u201cOur first year was a big learning curve and I kept on telling myself that we were going to be better the next year. I wasn\u2019t expecting to be a championship contender and I took things modestly and humbly last year and I counted all the wins as a blessing. We put a new body on the car but other than that, it\u2019s all the same. I have a great crew, it\u2019s all family oriented, and racing is number one for us and we know we have to get it done on raceday. I really think we can be a championship contender again.\u201d<\/p>\n

One thing that Trott will have working in his favor is a solid notebook that he and his crew built up during a season that saw them finish outside the top-5 only three times all year long.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know we had a good car last year and I was able to build up my skills,\u201d said Trott. \u201cThere\u2019s definitely things that I can still improve on and learn. More patience is everything in our races because they\u2019re so short and the cars are so evenly matched. It\u2019s going to be tougher this year with the tire rule because you can\u2019t put new tires on the car every week now. I have a lot of great support from my crew and they\u2019re all telling me that we\u2019re going to go out and win it this year. That\u2019s the goal and I\u2019m just going to keep going and pushing, hopefully not let my team down, and put on a good show for all the Stafford fans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael will kick off his quest for the DARE Stock championship with the 45th Annual NAPA Auto Parts Spring Sizzler\u00ae on April 22-24. Tickets for the \u201cGreatest Race in the History of Spring\u201d are on sale now at the Speedway Box Office. Tickets are priced at $38.50 for adult general admission tickets, $5.00 for children ages 6-14, and children ages 5 and under are admitted free of charge when accompanied by an adult. Reserved seating is priced at $42.00 for all ages. As always, Stafford Motor Speedway offers free parking with overnight parking available. All tickets are good for both Saturday and Sunday admission. All ticket prices include 10% CT Admission Tax. Discount Tickets will be available at all 57 participating NAPA Auto Parts stores beginning on Monday April 4th. For a full list of the 57 locations throughout Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Rhode Island, call the speedway office or visit us on the web at www.staffordmotorspeedway.com\/participating-napa-auto-parts-stores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tyler Trott Ready to Challenge for DARE Stock Track Title at Stafford Speedway (Stafford Springs, CT)—After winning three races and finishing second in the points standings last season, Stafford Speedway DARE Stock driver Tyler Trott is ready to contend for the 2016 track championship. Trott heads into the 2016 season ready to build on his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[196,1,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-uncategorized","category-stafford-connecticut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20450","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=20450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}