{"id":7117,"date":"2011-09-07T21:02:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T01:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2011-09-07T21:02:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T01:02:46","slug":"valenti-modified-series-returns-stafford-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/valenti-modified-series-returns-stafford-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Valenti Modified Series Returns to Stafford Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Valenti Modified Series Returns To Stafford Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Canaan, NH \u2013 The Valenti Modified Racing Series, after a<br \/>\ntwo week layoff, returns to action Friday night, September<br \/>\n9, at Stafford Springs (CT) Motor Speedway. The series will<br \/>\ncompete in the 2nd annual \u201cShark Cycle 80.\u201d<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFriday\u2019s race will feature a hotly contested battle for the<br \/>\nseries championship between Les Hinckley, of Windsor<br \/>\nLocks, CT., and Chris Pasteryak, of Lisbon, CT.<\/p>\n<p>12-points separate the two drivers with only four races<br \/>\nremaining on the 2011 schedule. Hinckley and Pasteryak<br \/>\nare the only two-time winners this season.<\/p>\n<p>Ted Christopher, of Plainfield, CT., last years winner of the<br \/>\nrace, has confirmed he plans to shoot for his second series win.  <\/p>\n<p>Recent Stafford VMRS winner, Keith Rocco, of Wallingford,<br \/>\nCT., is expected to enter the 80-lap shootout. Rocco is<br \/>\none of four first time series winners this season. <\/p>\n<p>Also expected are Mike Stefanik, Coventry, R.I., Rowan<br \/>\nPennink, Huntingdon Valley, PA., Louie Mechalides, of<br \/>\nTygnsboro, MA., Dave Etheridge, of Portland, CT., and<br \/>\nDoug  Coby, of Milford, CT.<\/p>\n<p>Max Zachem, Preston, CT., Norm Wrenn of Nashua, NH.,<br \/>\nRob Goodenough, of Swanzey, NH., Todd Owen, of Somers,<br \/>\nCT., Jack Bateman, Canaan, NH., and  Jeff Malave,of Manchester,<br \/>\nCT., are expected.<\/p>\n<p>Heat races begin at 6:15 PM with features races at 7:00 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valenti Modified Series Returns To Stafford Friday Canaan, NH \u2013 The Valenti Modified Racing Series, after a two week layoff, returns to action Friday night, September 9, at Stafford Springs (CT) Motor Speedway. The series will compete in the 2nd annual \u201cShark Cycle 80.\u201d<\/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":[15809,72,15818],"class_list":["post-7117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-modified","category-new-england","category-stafford-connecticut","tag-modified","tag-stafford","tag-valenti-modified-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117","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=7117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}