{"id":6613,"date":"2011-08-05T23:42:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T03:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2011-08-05T23:42:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T03:42:03","slug":"nascar-whelen-modified-tour-points-leader-ronnie-silk-hopes-repeat-performance-town-fair-tire-150-stafford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/nascar-whelen-modified-tour-points-leader-ronnie-silk-hopes-repeat-performance-town-fair-tire-150-stafford\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR WHELEN MODIFIED TOUR POINTS LEADER RONNIE SILK HOPES FOR REPEAT PERFORMANCE IN TOWN FAIR TIRE 150 AT STAFFORD"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASCAR WHELEN MODIFIED TOUR POINTS LEADER RONNIE SILK HOPES FOR REPEAT PERFORMANCE IN TOWN FAIR TIRE 150 AT STAFFORD<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Stafford Springs, CT)—When the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour last visited
\nStafford Motor Speedway back in May, it was a race to remember for Ronnie
\nSilk and the #6 T.S. Haulers, Inc. team. Silk won the pole and then led all
\n125 laps to take his first win of the 2011 season. Since that race at
\nStafford, Silk hasn\u2019t finished a race lower than fourth and he has the
\npoints lead as the Tour returns to Stafford for the Town Fair Tire 150.
\nSilk hopes to recreate the level of domination that he exhibited at Stafford
\nin May and come away from the Town Fair Tire 150 with the winner\u2019s trophy.
\n\u201cI hope we can do that again,\u201d said Silk. \u201cWe\u2019ll be coming back with the
\nsame stuff and we\u2019ll be looking for another win this week. We\u2019ve always
\nseemed to qualify and run well at Stafford, we just never had the finishes.
\nThe last four races at Stafford, I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve finished lower than
\nthird, so hopefully our luck has turned around at Stafford and we can be
\nthere at the end of the race and try to win again.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a 23rd place finish in the 2011 season opening event, Silk\u2019s stellar
\nrace results have vaulted him to the top of the Whelen Modified Tour points
\nstandings heading into the Town Fair Tire 150, 5 points clear of Rowan
\nPennink, who had been the points leader since the first race of the 2011
\nseason.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like it\u2019s still to early to worry about points,\u201d said Silk. \u201cIn
\nyears past, I\u2019ve always been behind in the points at this point of the
\nseason, so it\u2019s nice to be where we are. But there\u2019s a lot of racing left
\nto go and we just have to keep doing what we\u2019ve been doing this season, and
\nif we can do that, the points will take care of themselves. We\u2019ve won at
\nStafford, Thompson, and New Hampshire, but we haven\u2019t run that well at
\nBristol, and Lime Rock is always a wild card although we managed to get a
\nthird there last year. My crew chief, Tom Grasso, has been giving me great
\ncars at every track and hopefully we can keep that going for the rest of the
\nseason and go for more wins.\u201d<\/p>\n

In order for Silk to replicate his May performance at Stafford, he will face
\ndifferent track conditions and he says that he and his team know what they
\nwill need in order to have another stellar race result.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s still the same track, you have to turn left at the end of the
\nstraightaway, but I\u2019m sure the track will be a little bit different,\u201d said
\nSilk. \u201cIn May we won the pole and led every lap, but that race was 125-laps
\nand this will be a different kind of race. We didn\u2019t pit in May and with 25
\nmore laps, I\u2019m sure that everyone will have to make a pit stop. We\u2019ve
\nreally neer set a number on when to pit, the race dictates what your
\nstrategy will be. If the car is good, we\u2019ll try to stretch it as long as we
\ncan before we pit, but sometimes your hand is forced if the car is off a
\nlittle and you have to pit early. We\u2019ll see how the race goes and we\u2019ll
\nmake a call from there. You need to have a fast car and you need to qualify
\nwell because it\u2019s getting harder to pass with the field being so close to
\neach other. Track position is going to be important and hopefully we can
\nhave some good track position for when we pit and we can be there at the end
\nof the race to go for the win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tickets for the 21st Annual Town Fair Tire 150 are on sale now at the
\nSpeedway Box Office and are price at $30.00 for adult general admission
\ntickets, $5.00 for children ages 6-14, and children ages 5 and under are
\nadmitted free of charge when accompanied by an adult. Reserved seating is
\npriced at $32.00 for all ages. As always, Stafford Motor Speedway offers
\nfree parking with overnight parking available.<\/p>\n

For more information, or to order tickets, contact the Stafford Motor
\nSpeedway track office at 860-684-2783 or visit us on the web at
\nwww.staffordspeedway.com .<\/http:><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NASCAR WHELEN MODIFIED TOUR POINTS LEADER RONNIE SILK HOPES FOR REPEAT PERFORMANCE IN TOWN FAIR TIRE 150 AT STAFFORD (Stafford Springs, CT)—When the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour last visited Stafford Motor Speedway back in May, it was a race to remember for Ronnie Silk and the #6 T.S. Haulers, Inc. team. Silk won the pole […]<\/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":[196,126,197],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-6613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-new-england","category-stafford-connecticut","tag-stafford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613","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=6613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}