{"id":7049,"date":"2011-09-02T07:09:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T11:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2011-09-02T07:09:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T11:09:07","slug":"stafford-late-model-title-fight-coming-hometown-drivers-ryan-posocco-woody-pitkat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/stafford-late-model-title-fight-coming-hometown-drivers-ryan-posocco-woody-pitkat\/","title":{"rendered":"STAFFORD LATE MODEL TITLE FIGHT AGAIN COMING DOWN TO HOMETOWN DRIVERS RYAN POSOCCO AND WOODY PITKAT"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Stafford\"
\nSTAFFORD LATE MODEL TITLE FIGHT AGAIN COMING DOWN TO HOMETOWN DRIVERS RYAN POSOCCO AND WOODY PITKAT<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Stafford Springs, CT)—Just as it was one year ago, the fight for the
\nStafford Speedway Late Model track championship is coming down to two
\nhometown drivers, Ryan Posocco and Woody Pitkat. Posocco currently leads
\nPitkat by 32 points in the chase for the championship with 4 races left on
\nthe 2011 calendar. Last season, the championship was not decided until the
\nfinal lap of the CARQUEST Fall Final Weekend race. At this time last
\nseason, Posocco led Pitkat by 38 points, but a crash by Posocco, combined
\nwith a win by Pitkat, tightened up the championship fight for the final 2
\nraces of the season. The 2010 championship was decided by only 2 points, or
\none position on the track, in Posocco\u2019s favor, and both drivers know that
\nalthough time is running out, anything can happen.
\n
\n\u201cThere\u2019s 4 races to go and 200 points left,\u201d said Posocco. \u201cAnything can
\nhappen in those four races and it will probably come down to the Fall Final,
\npretty much the same situation as it was last season. All it takes is one
\nbad night from us for Woody to make up the difference. We know we can\u2019t sit
\nback and relax because Woody has a good car and a good team, and they\u2019re
\ngoing to be going for wins, so we just have to do what we have to do.\u201d
\n\u201cWe had two DQ\u2019s and a DNF early in the season, so who would have thought
\nthat we\u2019d even be this close right now,\u201d said Pitkat. \u201cAfter the first four
\nraces this season, we were something like 15th in the points standings and
\nthere were 18 races left in the season at that point and our goal was to try
\nto win 10 of those races. We didn\u2019t win 10, but we won the first two of
\nthose races and now we\u2019re close. It\u2019s going to be hard for us to win the
\nchampionship, Ryan and the 48 team have won championships before and they
\nknow what to do, our strategy right now is to try to win every race and let
\nthe points fall wherever they fall.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since his early season troubles, Pitkat has not finished lower than 4th in
\nthe last 11 Late Model feature events. Pitkat has cut his deficit to the
\npoints leader from 84 points behind after the May 20th down to 32 points.
\nPitkat will need Posocco to have an issue in one of the final 4 races while
\nPosocco is trying to maintain the consistency that has seen them finish in
\nthe top-10 in 14 of the first 15 races this season. Both drivers say they\u2019
\nre fighting some inconsistencies with their car\u2019s handling and Pitkat is
\nhopeful that the fall weather may play into his favor.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just trying to keep things the same as we always have,\u201d said Posocco.
\n\u201cWe come to the track every Friday looking to win the race, and if we can\u2019t
\nwin then we try to get the best finish we can that night. One aspect is
\nthat we know what to expect being in this position, but we\u2019re still working
\non our handling. A couple weeks ago when we won, the car was really good,
\nmaybe the best it has been all year long. But the 100 lapper and last
\nFriday the car wasn\u2019t as good as it was. But we have a good car and
\nhopefully everything can stay together for us these last couple of races and
\nhopefully we can come out on the good end of things.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe haven\u2019t won as many races as we won last year, but we\u2019ve been pretty
\ngood,\u201d said Pitkat. \u201cOur car hasn\u2019t been consistent. When we won the
\n100-lapper, the car was great, but last Friday the car wasn\u2019t that good, but
\nI think that might have been because of all the rain during the week might
\nhave changed the track a little. But we\u2019re heading into the cooler nights
\nand that\u2019s another thing that you have to catch up with on the car setup, so
\nmaybe we can gain some points on Ryan that way.\u201d<\/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":"

STAFFORD LATE MODEL TITLE FIGHT AGAIN COMING DOWN TO HOMETOWN DRIVERS RYAN POSOCCO AND WOODY PITKAT (Stafford Springs, CT)—Just as it was one year ago, the fight for the Stafford Speedway Late Model track championship is coming down to two hometown drivers, Ryan Posocco and Woody Pitkat. Posocco currently leads Pitkat by 32 points in […]<\/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-7049","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\/7049","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=7049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}