{"id":266,"date":"2009-06-02T05:01:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T10:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2009-06-02T05:01:26","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T10:01:26","slug":"moffitt-ready-to-tackle-road-course-at-watkins-glen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/moffitt-ready-to-tackle-road-course-at-watkins-glen\/","title":{"rendered":"Moffitt Ready To Tackle Road Course At Watkins Glen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Moffitt Ready To <\/span><\/strong>Tackle Road<\/span><\/strong> Course At Watkins Glen<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span>Harrisburg, N.C. (June 1, 2009): <\/strong>Fresh off his first career win at South Boston Speedway, Brett Moffitt, a development driver with Andy Santerre Motorsports, will be tackling the right and left hand turns at Watkins Glen International road course. It will be the 16-year-old\u2019s debut on this track style, but car owner Andy Santerre is more than confident heading into this weekend\u2019s activities surrounding the Sahlen\u2019s Six Hours At The Glen.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>\u201cWe wanted to go test him on a road course so I took him up to Virginia International Raceway. Brett was the fastest of anyone I\u2019ve ever had there. It only took him four laps to get up to speed. He adapts well to any track that we\u2019ve been to, and I don\u2019t expect any less heading onto the road course. He knows what he wants in the car, and he knows how to communicate that to the crew,\u201d Santerre said.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Moffitt, looking ahead to this very event, received instruction at the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving at the end of last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>\u201cAndy recommended that I go to the school, and I think it\u2019ll pay off. I learned a ton about how important hitting your marks are on a road course, and that road racing takes a whole different strategy as far as your driving is concerned. I\u2019m excited about putting the skills I\u2019ve learned to work at Watkins Glen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Moffitt has impressed in this season\u2019s NASCAR Camping World Series East. To date, he holds the record as the youngest driver to ever win a Coors Light Pole Award, which he accomplished at the season opening event at Greenville-Pickens Speedway. He also holds the record as the youngest driver to ever win a NASCAR Camping World Series East race. Moffitt is currently second in the points with one win, three top-five, and three top-10 finishes.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>\u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of momentum heading into Watkins Glen. It\u2019s really awesome to have a team that has the same drive that I do to win. It makes me glad, looking back, that we prepared so well for the road courses. We\u2019ve tested, I\u2019ve done the school, and Andy has a lot of experience and success there to draw from. We want to keep this momentum going, and we want to be there at the end in contention for the win.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>The Sahlen\u2019s Six Hours at the Glen kicks off on Friday, June 5th<\/sup> with green flag action set for Saturday, June 6th<\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Moffitt Ready To Tackle Road Course At Watkins Glen Harrisburg, N.C. (June 1, 2009): Fresh off his first career win at South Boston Speedway, Brett Moffitt, a development driver with Andy Santerre Motorsports, will be tackling the right and left hand turns at Watkins Glen International road course. It will be the 16-year-old\u2019s debut on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","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=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}