{"id":4588,"date":"2011-03-14T22:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T03:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2011-03-14T21:26:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T02:26:13","slug":"whelen-modified-tour-driver-anthony-sesely-joins-sk-modified%c2%ae-division-stafford-speedway-2011-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/whelen-modified-tour-driver-anthony-sesely-joins-sk-modified%c2%ae-division-stafford-speedway-2011-season\/","title":{"rendered":"FORMER WHELEN MODIFIED TOUR DRIVER ANTHONY SESELY JOINS SK MODIFIED\u00ae DIVISION AT STAFFORD SPEEDWAY FOR 2011 SEASON"},"content":{"rendered":"

FORMER WHELEN MODIFIED TOUR DRIVER ANTHONY SESELY JOINS SK MODIFIED\u00ae DIVISION AT STAFFORD SPEEDWAY FOR 2011 SEASON<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Stafford Springs, CT)—Former NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour competitor
\nAnthony Sesely plans to join the ranks of the SK Modified\u00ae division at
\nStafford Motor Speedway for the 2011 season. Sesely has put a together a
\nbrand new Troyer chassis car for the 2011 season and he is looking forward
\nto the challenge of racing in the SK Modified\u00ae division at Stafford. While
\nSesely usually carried the number 11 on his cars, his SK Modified\u00ae at
\nStafford will carry the number 6.
\n
\n\u201cThis will be my first time in an SK car,\u201d said Sesely. \u201cWe have 2-barrel
\nmodified racing here in New Jersey, but they\u2019re a bit different from the SK
\ncars at Stafford. Stafford is the toughest game in town and that is where
\nwe are headed. Stafford is a nice big half-mile track and after racing the
\nlast couple years at Wall and Mahonig, it\u2019s nice to look forward to racing
\nat a track like Stafford. I\u2019ve seen guys go from the Tour to the SK\u2019s
\nbefore and not be able to be up to speed with the competition, hopefully we
\nwon\u2019t be one of those guys. With guys like Teddy [Christopher], [Keith]
\nRocco, [Ryan] Preece, and [Doug] Coby, the SK Modified\u00ae division is a very
\ntough division but I love racing against those guys. I love it when they
\ncome down here for the Turkey Derby because it\u2019s fun racing against them.
\nAt Stafford, you find out who the real cars and the real drivers are.\u201d
\nFrom 2005-2009, Sesely made a total of 40 starts in Whelen Modified Tour
\ncompetition with three top-10 finishes. Two of those top-10 finishes came
\nat Stafford, so while Sesely feels good about the track, he knows he faces
\nan adjustment in going from a WMT car to an SK car. But Sesely has won 8
\nfeatures the past 2 years in New Jersey and Pennsylvania while racing
\n2-barrel modified cars, so he has some experience to lean on as he heads to
\nStafford.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s real different, I\u2019m sure that going from 600 down to around 450
\nhorsepower is going to take a different style of driving,\u201d said Sesely.
\n\u201cStafford is going to be a nice change of pace for me. The 2-barrel concept
\nreally works for us. You can run those engines all year long where the
\nweekly modified was getting too expensive with the engine maintenance costs.
\nI was talking with Teddy at Atlantic City about the SK\u2019s and although we may
\nend up humbling ourselves really quickly, we had our best finishes at
\nStafford, so we\u2019re excited about coming up there to race this year.\u201d
\nSesely will look to make his Stafford SK Modified\u00ae debut at the 40th Annual
\nCARQUEST Tech-Net Spring Sizzler, scheduled for April 29-May 1.
\n\u201cThe Sizzler is our first race goal,\u201d said Sesely. \u201cThe car is done and
\nready to go, we\u2019re just waiting on the engine stuff to get finished up.\u201d
\nThe Whelen Modified Tour will headline the CARQUEST Tech-Net Spring Sizzler
\nwith Stafford\u2019s five NASCAR Whelen All-American Series divisions joining
\nthem on the card. Tickets for the “Greatest Race in the History of Spring”
\nare on sale now at the Speedway Box Office. Tickets are priced at $35.00 for
\nadult general admission tickets, $5.00 for children ages 6-14, and children
\nages 5 and under are admitted free of charge when accompanied by an adult.
\nReserved seating is priced at $38.00 for all ages. As always, Stafford Motor
\nSpeedway offers 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FORMER WHELEN MODIFIED TOUR DRIVER ANTHONY SESELY JOINS SK MODIFIED\u00ae DIVISION AT STAFFORD SPEEDWAY FOR 2011 SEASON (Stafford Springs, CT)—Former NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour competitor Anthony Sesely plans to join the ranks of the SK Modified\u00ae division at Stafford Motor Speedway for the 2011 season. Sesely has put a together a brand new Troyer chassis […]<\/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":[72],"class_list":["post-4588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-stafford-connecticut","tag-stafford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588","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=4588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}