RYAN POSOCCO AND WOODY PITKAT SEPARATED BY ONLY 4 POINTS WITH 2 RACES TO GO
\nIN LATE MODEL CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHT<\/p>\n
(Stafford Springs, CT)—In the blink of an eye, the race for the 2010
\nStafford Motor Speedway Late Model championship has come down to two former
\nchampions only 4 points apart with 2 races to go. Just several races ago,
\nRyan Posocco had what looked to be a comfortable 48 point lead over Woody
\nPitkat. But Pitkat has won the last 2 Late Model feature events while
\nPosocco finished 6th and 18th in the last 2 races to see his point lead
\ndwindled down from 48 to 4 points heading into the Final Friday Night
\nShoot-Out this Friday night and the season ending CARQUEST Fall Final
\nWeekend on Oct. 2nd and 3rd.
\n
\n\u201cStuff happens in racing, everyone on the team is pretty disgusted with how
\nthe last 2 weeks have gone for us,\u201d said Posocco. \u201cWe started off the
\nseason with a couple of rough weeks and we were able to climb out of that
\nhole during the summer and now it seems like we\u2019re back to where we were in
\nthe beginning of the year with bad luck. It should be a fun last couple of
\nraces for the championship.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t been looking at that,\u201d said Pitkat. \u201cIt was a longshot for us,
\nbut we just keep coming to win races and the points will fall where they
\nfall. I was talking with Pat [Kretschman] about that last week about how
\nhard it was to gain points and Pat told me that I better not give up because
\nanything can happen. We never give up, we come here to win races and that\u2019s
\nwhat we\u2019re going to keep on doing. I actually think it\u2019s harder to lead
\nthan it is to chase, so right now we\u2019re trying to do the best we can and we\u2019
\nre focused on winning races. I can\u2019t thank my crew guys enough. We wrecked
\nduring the 100 lapper and we finished sixth and this past Friday night, the
\nbrake rotor exploded and they worked their butts off to get the car fixed
\nand we won the race.\u201d<\/p>\n
Posocco and his crew will have a long week of work ahead of them in order to
\nhave his car ready for the final 2 races of the season as he crashed hard
\ninto the turn 2 wall this past Friday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe broke something in the rear end during the first caution this past
\nFriday night and the guys had to make some MacGyverish moves Friday night
\njust to get the car back out onto the track and then we ended up in the
\nwall. We got stuck in the outside at the start of the race and then the
\nrear end broke. We\u2019re definitely going to have a lot of work ahead of us in
\nthe shop this week. Our strategy is to keep the car out of the fence and go
\nto the track to win and if we can\u2019t win get the best finish possible. That\u2019
\ns what has gotten us to where we are right now and that\u2019s what will get us
\nto where we want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n
There are 2 races left on the Stafford schedule. The Final Friday Night
\nShoot-Out this Friday night, September 17th, and the CARQUEST Fall Final
\nWeekend on October 2nd and 3rd. Each race victory is worth 50 points and
\nthe points decrease by 2 points per position, meaning that Posocco and
\nPitkat are separated by only 2 positions with 2 races left on the 2010
\nschedule.<\/p>\n
Tickets for this Friday night\u2019s Final Friday Night Shoot-Out are available
\nand on sale now at the Stafford Motor Speedway Box Office. Tickets are
\npriced at $15.00 for adult General Admission, $5.00 for children ages 6-14,
\nand children ages 5 & under are free. Reserved seating is $18.00 for all
\nages.<\/p>\n
Tickets for the CARQUEST Fall Final Weekend are also available and on sale http:\/\/twitter.com\/neracer<\/http:><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RYAN POSOCCO AND WOODY PITKAT SEPARATED BY ONLY 4 POINTS WITH 2 RACES TO GO IN LATE MODEL CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHT (Stafford Springs, CT)—In the blink of an eye, the race for the 2010 Stafford Motor Speedway Late Model championship has come down to two former champions only 4 points apart with 2 races to go. […]<\/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-3351","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\/3351","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=3351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nnow at the Stafford Motor Speedway Box Office. Tickets are priced at $35.00
\nfor adult General Admission, $5.00 for children ages 6-14, and children ages
\n5 & under are free. Reserved seating is $38.00 for all ages. All tickets
\ncover both Saturday and Sunday admission to the Fall Final. As always,
\nStafford Motor Speedway offers free parking with overnight parking
\navailable. Tickets can be ordered by calling the Stafford Motor Speedway
\ntrack office at 860-684-2783 or by logging onto the Online Ticket Sales
\nsection of www.staffordspeedway.com
\nFor more information, or to order tickets, contact the Stafford Motor
\nSpeedway track office at 860-684-2783 or visit us on the web at
\nwww.staffordspeedway.com.<\/p>\n