{"id":7738,"date":"2011-09-11T12:15:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T16:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2011-09-11T22:16:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T02:16:31","slug":"pasteryak-scores-family-stafford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/pasteryak-scores-family-stafford\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasteryak Scores Family First At Stafford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/images\/stafford.jpg\" alt=\"Stafford\" \/><br \/>\nStafford Springs (CT) &#8212; For 35 years, the Pasteryak family has been trying to get to victory lane at the famed Stafford Springs (CT) Motor Speedway. Friday night, September 9, it finally happened. <\/p>\n<p>With his Father Charlie, and Uncle Carl, watching from pit road, Chris Pasteryak, of Lisbon, CT., started third in a 25-car field, took the lead on lap two, and went on to win the Valenti Modified Racing Series \u201cShark Cycle 80\u201d for his third victory of the 2011 season.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n\u201cMy family has been coming here since 1976. This is the first time we ever had a modified in victory lane here. A cool night, a great night,\u201d said Pasteryak.<\/p>\n<p>The Stafford victory was Pasteryak\u2019s sixth series win. <\/p>\n<p>Kenny Barry, of Preston, CT., chased Pasteryak for 12 laps before Doug Coby, of Milford, CT., moved into second on lap 14. Coby pursued the race leader until lap 63 when Rowan Pennink, of Huntingdon Valley, PA., who started 24th, took over second.<\/p>\n<p>Pennink closed fast on Pasteryak, often right on his bumper after late race restarts. \u201cThe restarts were killing me,\u201d said Pasteryak. \u201cIt took five or six laps to get going again and then hold on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pennink overcame a leak in an earlier qualifying race. He passed the most cars in the feature race to win the Sunoco Hard Charger award.<\/p>\n<p>Coby, Matt Hirschman, Northampton, PA., and Keith Rocco, Meriden, CT., rounded out the top five. <\/p>\n<p>Ted Christopher, Plainfield, CT., Dave Etheridge, Portland, CT., Rob Goodenough, Swanzey, NH., Dennis Charette, Southington, CT., and Louie Mechalides, Tyngsboro, MA., finished sixth<br \/>\nthrough tenth. <\/p>\n<p>Five caution flags and a red flag slowed the race that took 55 minutes to complete. 20 of the 25 cars that started the event finished on the lead lap.<\/p>\n<p>Race Summary<br \/>\nSept 9, 2011<br \/>\nStafford Springs (CT) Motor Speedway<br \/>\nDistance: 80 laps<br \/>\nTime of Race: 55:02<br \/>\nBest Lap Time: 18.618  (Coby)<br \/>\nBest Speed: 96.681<br \/>\nMargin of Victory: 0.183<br \/>\nLead Changes: 1 (Lap 2)<br \/>\nLap Leaders: Barry (Lap 1) Pasteryak (Lap 2)<br \/>\nCautions: Laps 42 (Bolles) 59 (Barrett) 59 (Red for Bateman\/Hinckley<br \/>\n59 (Bolles) 76 (Bolles)<br \/>\nUnofficial Finish: (1) Pasteryak, (2) Pennink (3) Coby<br \/>\n(4) Hirschman, (5) Rocco (6) Christopher (7) Etheridge<br \/>\n(8) Goodenough (9) Charette (10) Mechalides<br \/>\n(11) Holdridge (12) Jordan (13) Wrenn (14) Reed<br \/>\n(15) Drown (16) Bolles (17) Zachem (18) Barrett<br \/>\n(19) Doucette (20) Barry (21) Perry (22) Hinckley<br \/>\n(23) Bateman (24) Owen (25) Summers <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stafford Springs (CT) &#8212; For 35 years, the Pasteryak family has been trying to get to victory lane at the famed Stafford Springs (CT) Motor Speedway. Friday night, September 9, it finally happened. With his Father Charlie, and Uncle Carl, watching from pit road, Chris Pasteryak, of Lisbon, CT., started third in a 25-car field, [&hellip;]<\/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":[196,4163,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-modified","category-stafford-connecticut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7738","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=7738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}