{"id":2712,"date":"2010-07-08T21:42:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T02:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2010-07-08T21:42:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T02:42:13","slug":"dylan-liseo-takes-first-career-victory-at-stafford-speedway-in-thrilling-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/dylan-liseo-takes-first-career-victory-at-stafford-speedway-in-thrilling-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"DYLAN LISEO TAKES FIRST CAREER VICTORY AT STAFFORD SPEEDWAY IN THRILLING FASHION"},"content":{"rendered":"

DYLAN LISEO TAKES FIRST CAREER VICTORY AT STAFFORD SPEEDWAY IN THRILLING
\nFASHION<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Stafford Springs, CT)—Traditionally for some people, seven is a lucky
\nnumber. For 15-year-old Dylan Liseo, the number seven may just be his new
\nlucky number as well. For that\u2019s the number of SK Light Modified starts it
\ntook him to get his first feature win with his family owned #42 Home Team
\nSupply \/ WCCC 106.9 FM Chevrolet.
\nLiseo started the race on the outside pole and had built up a comfortable
\nlead in the first half of the race after taking the lead at the drop of the
\ngreen flag, but when the caution came out with 11 laps complete, he had
\npossibly the hottest driver in the division, Tommy Barrett, Jr., alongside
\nhim for the restart.
\n\u201cI was bumming about the caution because I had a huge lead,\u201d said Liseo.
\nLiseo held the lead until lap-13 when Barrett, who had won two of the
\nprevious four SK Light Modified feature events, took over the point on lap
\n14. The caution flew again on lap-16 and Liseo restarted on the outside of
\nBarrett and was able to take the lead on lap-17. Barrett would drive back
\nto the inside of Liseo on the final lap and with the crowd on their feet as
\nBarrett and Liseo barreled out of turn 4, Liseo nipped Barrett at the line
\nby the nose of his car to take his first career victory.
\n\u201cWhen I saw Tommy on the inside I never lifted off the gas, I just muscled
\nthe car around the outside,\u201d said Liseo. \u201cIt was astonishing, I was really
\nspeechless! I forgot to thank Paul French, Home Team Supply, my Mom and
\nDad, and especially my Uncle Joe. I still can\u2019t believe I have my name in
\nthe record books as a winner at Stafford.\u201d
\nAnother one of the young guns of Stafford\u2019s SK Light division, Dylan is the
\nthird generation in his family to be involved in racing. His grandfather
\nTom owned a car driven by Joe Trudeau at Plainville Stadium, and his father
\nMike raced Stafford, Thompson, and Waterford before, he too, became a car
\nowner. Dylan\u2019s father bought him a quarter midget when he was 4 years old
\nand the name on that car was \u201cDilly the Kid\u201d, something that has stuck with
\nDylan to this day. Dylan moved from the quarter midgets to BMX bikes before
\nmoving back into the quarter midget ranks 4 years ago. Dylan raced
\nprimarily at Silver City in Meriden, CT as well as traveling to races in
\nIndiana, New Jersey, and The Grands in Ohio. \u00ae
\nNext for Dylan came the 600 Racing school at Charlotte Motor Speedway behind
\nthe wheel of a legends car. Legend driving turned out not to be to his
\nliking though, as he said, \u201cI never had trust in the car\u201d something that he
\nfeels completely different about his SK Light.
\nLiseo\u2019s car has winning pedigree at Stafford, as the chassis is the 2008 SK
\nModified\u00ae championship car of Keith Rocco, and his engine is the motor from
\nformer SK Light competitor Mark Bakaj\u2019s car, which won four races during the
\n2008 season at Stafford. Liseo\u2019s chassis and engine combination has proved
\nitself a winner at Stafford, becoming the 7th different winning car in the
\nSK Lights this season.
\nDylan says his future holds a couple more years in the SK Light division at
\nStafford and would love to one day be offered a ride in an SK Modified\u00ae car
\nor even move up to the Whelen Modified Tour. For now though, he\u2019s enjoying
\nbeing the celebrity of the week, popping up on Stafford Speedway\u2019s website
\nas well as the WCCC.com website as a feature winner.
\nFor more information, contact the Stafford Motor Speedway track office at
\n860-684-2783 or visit us on the web at www.staffordspeedway.com
\n.<\/http:><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DYLAN LISEO TAKES FIRST CAREER VICTORY AT STAFFORD SPEEDWAY IN THRILLING FASHION (Stafford Springs, CT)—Traditionally for some people, seven is a lucky number. For 15-year-old Dylan Liseo, the number seven may just be his new lucky number as well. For that\u2019s the number of SK Light Modified starts it took him to get his first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-2712","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\/2712","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=2712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}