{"id":21047,"date":"2016-12-07T08:50:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T13:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=21047"},"modified":"2016-12-07T08:50:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T13:50:46","slug":"chase-dowling-returning-to-weekly-competition-in-staffords-sk-modified-division-for-2017-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/chase-dowling-returning-to-weekly-competition-in-staffords-sk-modified-division-for-2017-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Chase Dowling Returning to Weekly Competition in Stafford\u2019s SK Modified\u00ae Division for 2017 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"STAFFORD-TRACK-LOGO\"Chase Dowling Returning to Weekly Competition in Stafford\u2019s SK Modified\u00ae Division for 2017 Season<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Stafford Springs, CT)—After two years away from weekly competition, 2014 SK Modified\u00ae Rookie of the Year Chase Dowling will return to Stafford\u2019s premier division in 2017 behind the wheel of the #50 Les & Tina Skowyra owned modified. Dowling has spent the last two years running on the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour after an impressive 2014 season in the SK Modified\u00ae division which etched his name in the record books as the youngest SK Modified\u00ae winner in track history.
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\u201cAdam Skowyra and I have talked over the past couple of years and it was just trying to find a sponsor,\u201d explained Dowling. \u201cAs everyone knows S+S Asphalt Paving has been a huge part of my racing, they\u2019ve been my backbone and I definitely wouldn\u2019t be racing today if it weren\u2019t for them. Adam and I talked and I took care of everything on my end and I\u2019m really excited about coming back to my home track and to be racing weekly on Friday nights. Adam is working on building a new Troyer car and it\u2019s going to be a blast again to be racing against guys like Ted Christopher, Keith Rocco, and Rowan Pennink.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dowling will have some big to shoes as he fills the #50 seat that has been driven by one of the best Stafford drivers of all-time, Woody Pitkat. The #50 team scored two wins and was a contender each week throughout the 2016 season with Pitkat behind the wheel.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have some pretty big shoes to fill with Woody being in that car the last couple years,\u201d continued Dowling. \u201cI think we can be there at the end of the season for the championship, we have everything we need with the car and the motor and we have all the pieces of the puzzle, we just have to show up every week and give our best effort.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dowling will have to have his A-game when he makes his SK Modified\u00ae return at the NAPA Auto Parts Spring Sizzler as the SK Modified\u00ae field is arguably the toughest weekly racing division in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone knows SK Modified\u00ae racing at Stafford is some of the hardest competition around,\u201d explained Dowling. \u201cThe only word I can use to describe the racing is competitive and you\u2019re not going to be the best unless you beat the best and you\u2019re racing against the best every Friday night at Stafford.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dowling is also excited to have another shot in the biggest SK Modified\u00ae race in the country the NAPA Auto Parts SK 5k. Chase finished 8th in the inaugural SK 5K in 2014 and turned in a strong run in the 2015 edition before being taken out in a late race incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to thank Mark Arute and the whole Stafford team as well as NAPA Auto Parts and Doug Dunleavy for putting the money up for this race,\u201d said Dowling. \u201cEvery racer, we\u2019re not making money doing this and when there\u2019s big purses on the table, everyone wants to race in that race and win. The car counts have been really good the last couple years and it\u2019s only going to grow. It\u2019s awesome that Doug, Mark, and everyone at Stafford puts in the effort that they do to make big races happen for us racers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI also have to thank Adam for giving me the opportunity to drive the #50 car and I hope I can bring the best for him and his crew,\u201d continued Dowling. \u201cI get along with all of his guys and I\u2019m looking forward to getting started. I think everything will come back to me pretty quick and we can be a top running car. We\u2019re going to try our best to win races and the championship and I think we can come close to achieving those goals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chase Dowling Returning to Weekly Competition in Stafford\u2019s SK Modified\u00ae Division for 2017 Season (Stafford Springs, CT)—After two years away from weekly competition, 2014 SK Modified\u00ae Rookie of the Year Chase Dowling will return to Stafford\u2019s premier division in 2017 behind the wheel of the #50 Les & Tina Skowyra owned modified. Dowling has spent […]<\/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-21047","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\/21047","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=21047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}