{"id":4367,"date":"2011-02-12T18:49:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T23:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2011-02-12T16:50:54","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T21:50:54","slug":"ryan-preece-ready-challenge-sk-modified%c2%ae-title-2011-stafford-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/ryan-preece-ready-challenge-sk-modified%c2%ae-title-2011-stafford-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"RYAN PREECE READY TO CHALLENGE FOR SK MODIFIED\u00ae TITLE IN 2011 AT STAFFORD SPEEDWAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

RYAN PREECE READY TO CHALLENGE FOR SK MODIFIED\u00ae TITLE IN 2011 AT STAFFORD SPEEDWAY<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Stafford Springs, CT)—After moonlighting in the SK Modified\u00ae division at
\nStafford Motor Speedway during the 2010 season, Ryan Preece has a full
\nschedule lined up for the 2011 season and he is ready to be a contender for
\nthe 2011 track championship. Preece will run the full 2011 season at
\nStafford in the same #40 Chassis Dynamics car that he drove last season for
\nMike Paquette, Bob Hitchcock and Kelly Iverson, but the car will have a
\nfourth partner. Jean-Guy Poulin, who won the SK Modified\u00ae championship in
\n2008 as a car owner with Keith Rocco and in 2009 as a sponsor of Ted
\nChristopher, will supply the #40 team with engines for the 2011 season. The
\ncar will also carry sponsorship from Sullivan and Sons for the 2011 season.
\n\u201cWe\u2019re going to run the full season with the same deal as we had last
\nseason,\u201d said Preece. \u201cJean-Guy Poulin is coming on board with us to supply
\nus with a motor. We ran Jean\u2019s motor for the last three races of 2010, and
\nit\u2019s a real good motor.\u201d
\n
\nIn his limited appearances in the SK Modified\u00ae division last season, Preece
\nrecorded 8 top-5 finishes in 13 starts including his first career SK
\nModified\u00ae victory on September 10. Preece finished second in the
\nprestigious CARQUEST SK 150 and in the final 7 races of the season, he
\nrecorded 5 podium finishes, giving him confidence that he can be a contender
\nfor the SK Modified\u00ae championship in 2011.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe goal for us this year is to win the championship,\u201d said Preece. \u201cThere
\n\u2019s no doubt we have all the tools we need to win, it\u2019s going to come down to
\nhaving some luck on our side and staying out of trouble. A lot of SK racing
\nis having a good car and avoiding the wrecks. We have a good car and if we
\ndon\u2019t bang it up then I think we can be contenders for the championship this
\nseason. Bob and Kelly have put a lot of time and money into this program
\nand they deserve a championship. The dream is to have a season like Teddy
\n[Christopher] or Woody [Pitkat] have had in the past, or like Keith [Rocco]
\nhad last year in the SK\u2019s where they win a ton of races, but with the level
\nof competition in the SK\u2019s, that is going to be very hard to do.\u201d
\nIn addition to his SK Modified\u00ae duties, Preece will also drive a full season
\non the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour for car owner John Lukosavage, meaning
\nthat he will be a double duty driver when the Tour makes its four stops to
\nStafford during the 2011 season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is pretty good deal,\u201d said Preece. \u201cJohn Lukosavage is the car owner
\nand we have Mike Paquette and Bob Cuneo helping out with the car as well. I
\n\u2019ll have the same crew guys working on the Tour car as the SK car, and the
\nTour car will be the same CD chassis that I\u2019ll be driving in the SK\u2019s, so I\u2019
\nll know the cars pretty well. Last year I did the SK, Late Model, and Tour,
\nso going back and forth between cars won\u2019t be a problem. Whichever car you\u2019
\nre in at the moment, that\u2018s the car that you\u2019re focused on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Preece will begin his quest for an SK Modified\u00ae track championship at the
\n40th Annual CARQUEST Tech-Net Spring Sizzler, scheduled for April 29-May 1.
\nThe Whelen Modified Tour will headline the Sizzler with Stafford\u2019s five
\nNASCAR Whelen All-American Series divisions joining them on the card.
\nTickets for the “Greatest Race in the History of Spring” are on sale now at
\nthe Speedway Box Office. Tickets are priced at $35.00 for adult general
\nadmission tickets, $5.00 for children ages 6-14, and children ages 5 and
\nunder are admitted free of charge when accompanied by an adult. Reserved
\nseating is priced at $38.00 for all ages. As always, Stafford Motor Speedway
\noffers free parking with overnight parking available.<\/p>\n

For 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":"

RYAN PREECE READY TO CHALLENGE FOR SK MODIFIED\u00ae TITLE IN 2011 AT STAFFORD SPEEDWAY (Stafford Springs, CT)—After moonlighting in the SK Modified\u00ae division at Stafford Motor Speedway during the 2010 season, Ryan Preece has a full schedule lined up for the 2011 season and he is ready to be a contender for the 2011 track […]<\/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-4367","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\/4367","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=4367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}