{"id":5627,"date":"2011-06-09T22:25:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T02:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2011-06-09T22:25:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T02:25:03","slug":"keith-rocco-collect-consecutive-coors-light-sk-modified%c2%ae-100-trophy-stafford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/keith-rocco-collect-consecutive-coors-light-sk-modified%c2%ae-100-trophy-stafford\/","title":{"rendered":"KEITH ROCCO LOOKING TO COLLECT THIRD CONSECUTIVE COORS LIGHT SK MODIFIED\u00ae 100 TROPHY AT STAFFORD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/images\/stafford.jpg\" alt=\"Stafford\" \/>(Stafford Springs, CT)&#8212;With the SK Modified\u00ae division hitting the track<br \/>\nfor the 38th Annual Coors Light SK Modified\u00ae 100 this Friday night at<br \/>\nStafford, one driver that will be looking forward to the extra distance<br \/>\nclassic is Keith Rocco.  Rocco has won the last two Coors Light SK Modified\u00ae<br \/>\n100 events and will look to take home the winner\u2019s trophy and the $2,600<br \/>\ncheck that goes along with it for the third consecutive season.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n\u201cWe know we\u2019ll be in contention for the win,\u201d said Rocco.  \u201cThe cards are<br \/>\ngoing to be stacked against us this year with the handicapping since we\u2019ve<br \/>\nwon the last two races.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The last driver other than Rocco to win the Coors Light SK Modified\u00ae 100 was<br \/>\nTed Christopher in 2008.  Christopher has won the 100-lapper at Stafford<br \/>\nfour times and Rocco and Christopher have been the combination to watch at<br \/>\nStafford during the last 2 100-lap events.  In 2009, they swapped the lead 7<br \/>\ntimes over the final 35 laps of the race with Rocco beating Christopher to<br \/>\nthe checkered flag.  Last year\u2019s Coors Light SK Modified\u00ae 100 saw Rocco and<br \/>\nChristopher swap the lead 15 times before Rocco went in front for good on<br \/>\nlap-68.  Christopher finished last year\u2019s race in third as Woody Pitkat<br \/>\nfinished second behind Rocco.  Rocco is hoping for more of the same when the<br \/>\ngreen flag falls on this year\u2019s 100-lap classic and he is looking to take<br \/>\nhome the fat winner\u2019s check of $2,600.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s absolutely fun for me in the car,\u201d said Rocco.  \u201cAs you\u2019re going<br \/>\nalong, you\u2019re almost smiling and laughing as you\u2019re racing for the lead.<br \/>\nHopefully we can put on another good show for the fans like we have with<br \/>\nTeddy the last couple years.  I\u2019m sure that Ryan [Preece] is going to be<br \/>\nthere for sure and hopefully we can come out on top again.  Those checks are<br \/>\nalways nice for the big races, they help us out a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the race distance of 100 green flag laps, the Coors Light SK Modified\u00ae<br \/>\n100 equates to two and a half times the normal SK Modified\u00ae distance of 40<br \/>\ngreen flag laps, but Rocco says that he and his team prepare the car just as<br \/>\nif they were racing a normal feature distance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really don\u2019t do anything different with the car,\u201d said Rocco.  \u201cOur car<br \/>\nis really balanced and it stays consistent throughout the race.  The first<br \/>\n50 laps or so, you take what you can get and then you try to go racing for<br \/>\nthe last 50 laps.  The key to winning the race is to be there at the end of<br \/>\nthe race.  Racing with Teddy last year we used the car up a little, but we<br \/>\nhad plenty of car left for the end of the race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rocco has won the last two Coors Light SK Modified\u00ae 100 events at Stafford<br \/>\nand he comes into tonight\u2019s event as the winner of the last two SK Modified\u00ae<br \/>\nfeature events after nearly destroying his car in a heat race crash on May<br \/>\n20th.<br \/>\n\u201cThe car is back to where it was before we crashed it,\u201d said Rocco.  \u201cBrad<br \/>\nLaFontaine from NorthEast Race Cars did a great job putting it back together<br \/>\nand I can\u2019t thank him and my team enough for all their hard work on the<br \/>\n car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the 38th Annual Coors Light SK Modified\u00ae 100 are on sale now at<br \/>\nthe Speedway Box Office.  Tickets are priced at $18.00 for adult general<br \/>\nadmission tickets, $5.00 for children ages 6-14, and children ages 5 and<br \/>\nunder are admitted free of charge when accompanied by an adult.  Reserved<br \/>\nseating is priced at $20.00 for all ages.  As always, Stafford Motor<br \/>\nSpeedway offers free parking with overnight parking available.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the 38th Annual Coors Light SK Modified\u00ae 100, or to<br \/>\norder tickets, contact the Stafford Motor Speedway track office at<br \/>\n860-684-2783 or visit us on the web at www.staffordspeedway.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Stafford Springs, CT)&#8212;With the SK Modified\u00ae division hitting the track for the 38th Annual Coors Light SK Modified\u00ae 100 this Friday night at Stafford, one driver that will be looking forward to the extra distance classic is Keith Rocco. Rocco has won the last two Coors Light SK Modified\u00ae 100 events and will look to [&hellip;]<\/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":[196,4163,126,197],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-5627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-modified","category-new-england","category-stafford-connecticut","tag-stafford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627","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=5627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}