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WOODY PITKAT LOOKING FOR FIRST WIN OF 2011 SEASON IN CARQUEST SK 150 AT STAFFORD SPEEDWAY<\/strong><\/p>\n (Stafford Springs, CT)—When it comes to winning SK Modified\u00ae races at \u201cI think we\u2019re going to have a good shot,\u201d said Pitkat. \u201cWe\u2019ve been good Pitkat has extra distance feature wins in both the SK Modified\u00ae and Late \u201cI think the key to the longer races is that you can go out and set your own Pitkat enters the CARQUEST SK 150 in 3rd place in the points standings, \u201cA win in the 150 would be a big plus for the team,\u201d said Pitkat. \u201cAny The 8th annual CARQUEST SK 150 is scheduled for July 22nd. Tickets are For more information, or to order tickets to the 8th Annual CARQUEST SK 150, WOODY PITKAT LOOKING FOR FIRST WIN OF 2011 SEASON IN CARQUEST SK 150 AT STAFFORD SPEEDWAY (Stafford Springs, CT)—When it comes to winning SK Modified\u00ae races at Stafford Speedway, Woody Pitkat certainly knows his way to CARQUEST Victory Lane with 17 SK Modified wins to his credit since the 2007 season. After switching to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[15809,4691,4161,72],"class_list":["post-6407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-modified","category-new-england","category-stafford-connecticut","tag-modified","tag-pitkat","tag-sk-modified","tag-stafford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407","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=6407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nStafford Speedway, Woody Pitkat certainly knows his way to CARQUEST Victory
\nLane with 17 SK Modified wins to his credit since the 2007 season. After
\nswitching to a new car for the 2011 season, Pitkat has yet to find his way
\nto victory lane this year, although he has posted 7 top-5 finishes in the 9
\nSK Modified\u00ae features run so far this season. Pitkat won the CARQUEST SK
\n150 in 2008 and he will look to repeat his winning ways and capture his
\nfirst victory of the 2011 season in tomorrow night\u2019s 8th Annual CARQUEST SK
\n150.<\/p>\n
\nthis season, it just seems like we\u2019re missing that one small piece to get us
\nover the hump and into victory lane. We had a bad Sizzler and we had
\nanother night that we finished 14th, but other than those two races, we\u2019ve
\nbeen consistent this year, so that\u2019s been good. I like the longer races,
\nthey seem to suit me where you can set your own pace during the race. Keith
\nRocco has been fast, Ryan Preece has been fast, Frank Ruocco is always good
\nin this race, and then there\u2019s guys like Eric Berndt and Todd Owen that are
\ngood in the longer races. There\u2019s 8 to 10 cars that can win on any night
\nand hopefully we can be one of those cars contending for the win in the
\n 150.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nModel divisions at Stafford on his resume. Pitkat won the CARQUEST SK 150
\nin 2008 and the SK 100 lap event in 2007, and he won the Late Model 100 last
\nseason and he won the Late Model 150 win in 2001. In addition to his 100
\nand 150-lap feature victories, his first ever Late Model win was in a
\nspecial 50-lap extra distance feature in 2000.<\/p>\n
\npace depending on where you start,\u201d said Pitkat. \u201cIf you start towards the
\nfront, you can try to get to the lead quick and then set a pace, or if you
\nstart towards the back, you can try to work your way into the top-5 and ride
\naround a bit to try to save the car for the end of the race. In the
\n100-lapper this year, we got out front pretty quick, but we ended up having
\nan issue with the clutch and we finished third. The car was good for the
\nfirst 10 or 15 laps and then it tightened up a bit. We won\u2019t be riding
\naround at the back, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
\ntrailing Ryan Preece by 36 points. Should Pitkat and his team find the key
\nthat will unlock the door to victory lane for them in the CARQUEST SK 150,
\nPitkat says that will be a big boost for his team in the second half of the
\n2011 season.<\/p>\n
\nfinish in the top-5 would be big, but I think a win would definitely give us
\nthat much more momentum and motivation for the rest of the season, not that
\nwe\u2019re not motivated now. Everyone on the team has been real happy with how
\nwe\u2019ve run so far and if we can find that small piece that we\u2019ve been
\nmissing to get to victory lane, it will give us some nice momentum for the
\nrest of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n
\npriced at $25.00 for adult general admission, $5.00 for children ages 6-14
\ngeneral admission, and Free for Children ages 5 & under. Reserved seating
\nis available for $28.00 for all ages. Stafford Motor Speedway offers free
\nparking, with overnight parking available.<\/p>\n
\ncontact the Stafford Motor Speedway track office at 860-684-2783 or visit us
\non the web at www.staffordspeedway.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"