BOBBY SANTOS, III LOOKING FOR FIRST CAREER CARQUEST TECH-NET SPRING SIZZLER VICTORY AT STAFFORD SPEEDWAY<\/p>\n
(Stafford Springs, CT)—After finishing second in last year\u2019s CARQUEST
\nTech-Net Spring Sizzler, Bobby Santos, III is looking to capture his first
\nSizzler victory and give car owner Bob Garbarino his second victory in the
\nlongest continuous running event on the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour
\nschedule. Santos made his debut Sizzler effort in the #4 Mystic Missile
\nSantos memorable, as he set a track record in Coors Light Pole Qualifying,
\nbecoming the first Whelen Modified Tour driver to break the 18-second
\nbarrier at Stafford. Santos then continued his good luck streak by
\nredrawing the pole position. When the green flag came out, Santos led the
\nfirst 54 laps of the race before spinning in turn 3 on lap-55 while
\nnavigating lapped traffic. Santos fell deep in the field, but he worked his
\nway back through traffic to finish second behind Christopher in a
\ngreen-white-checkered finish.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the time it was disappointing, but looking back now, the end result was
\na great second place finish,\u201d said Santos. \u201cIt was a great weekend for the
\nteam. We set a track record and won the pole and we led the race for a
\nwhile before we had the problem with the lap car. The spin with the lap car
\nmessed up the rear end of the car a little bit, so it didn\u2019t handle as good
\nin the second half of the race as it did in the first half. I think that
\nTeddy [Christopher] had the stronger car at the end of the race, but who\u2019s
\nto say what would have happened. After the race was over and we saw the
\nrear end of the car, we were happy to have finished second.\u201d
\nAfter his second place finish in last year\u2019s CARQUEST Tech-Net Spring
\nSizzler, Santos knows what it will take for another good finish in this year
\n\u2019s version of \u201cThe Greatest Race in the History of Spring.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the big thing is the pit strategy,\u201d said Santos. \u201cWe run the car
\npretty much the same way for the Sizzler as the other Stafford races and see
\nhow the race plays out. We got thrown off of our pit strategy last year,
\nbut then we ended up pitting with all the lead cars anyways, so we didn\u2019t
\nget hurt that bad.\u201d<\/p>\n
The CARQUEST Tech-Net Spring Sizzler wasn\u2019t the only Stafford race that
\nSantos was successful in. Santos practically made Stafford his playground
\nduring the 2010 season, scoring 2 pole positions, 2 wins, and a second place
\nfinish in four Whelen Modified Tour stops. The only thing that slowed
\nSantos at Stafford last season was a blown engine in the August Town Fair
\nTire 150 that relegated him to a 23rd place finish. Santos also has 2 NEMA
\nMidget wins at Stafford and in 2006, he walked away from Stafford with a
\n$50,000 bonus from CARQUEST and Valvoline by winning the Midget and PRA Big
\nCar races as part of CARQUEST Presents The Big One. Santos is looking for
\nmore of the same when the Tour makes its four stops to Stafford in 2011.
\n\u201cStafford is a track that I love going to, it\u2019s close to home for me, and I\u2019
\nve had a lot of fun times at Stafford,\u201d said Santos. \u201cI think that Stafford
\nis a unique track and having experience at Stafford definitely helps out at
\nthe end of the race. But there are a lot of guys on Tour who have
\nexperience at Stafford like Teddy [Christopher] and [Mike] Stefanik.\u201d
\nSantos will return to Stafford with the same car and crew that helped carry
\nhim to three wins in the first four races of the 2010 season and ultimately
\nthe 2010 Whelen Modified Tour championship. With a year of working
\ntogether, Santos feels confident that the Mystic Missile team can be every
\nbit as good as they were last season and better.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m pretty excited that everyone from last year is coming back this year,\u201d
\nsaid Santos. \u201cThey\u2019re all awesome guys and I think that with a year
\ntogether, we are only going to grow as a team and be even better this year
\nthan we were last year. It is a great team and they had won races and
\nchampionships before, so I don\u2019t think it was surprising that we ran so
\nwell, but I think it was surprising how hot we were at the beginning of the
\nseason. We would like to be able to compete again for the championship this
\nseason, and I\u2019d like to win more races this year than I did last year. We
\nwon 4 races last year, but with the talent on the tour this year, that\u2019s
\ngoing to be hard to do. Once you win the championship once, you don\u2019t want
\nanything else than to win the championship again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Santos and the Whelen Modified Tour teams hit the track for the first time
\non Saturday, April 30 with practice and Time Trials and the 200-lap race
\nwill be on Sunday, May 1st. Joining the Whelen Modified Tour as part of the
\n40th Annual CARQUEST Tech-Net Spring Sizzler will be Stafford’s five NASCAR
\nWhelen All-American Series divisions. Tickets for the “Greatest Race in the
\nHistory of Spring” are on sale now at the Speedway Box Office. Tickets are
\npriced at $35.00 for adult general admission tickets, $5.00 for children
\nages 6-14, and children ages 5 and under are admitted free of charge when
\naccompanied by an adult. Reserved seating is priced at $38.00 for all ages.
\nAs always, Stafford Motor Speedway offers free parking with overnight
\nparking available.<\/p>\n
For more information, contact the Stafford Motor Speedway track office at BOBBY SANTOS, III LOOKING FOR FIRST CAREER CARQUEST TECH-NET SPRING SIZZLER VICTORY AT STAFFORD SPEEDWAY (Stafford Springs, CT)—After finishing second in last year\u2019s CARQUEST Tech-Net Spring Sizzler, Bobby Santos, III is looking to capture his first Sizzler victory and give car owner Bob Garbarino his second victory in the longest continuous running event on the […]<\/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-4365","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\/4365","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=4365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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