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\n(Stafford Springs, CT)—Heading into the Final Friday Night Shoot-Out
\nprogram at Stafford Speedway, Ryan Preece leads Keith Rocco by 82 points in
\nthe track\u2019s SK Modified\u00ae points standings. If Preece can finish in 16th
\nplace or higher tomorrow night, he will clinch the 2011 SK Modified\u00ae track
\nchampionship. While Preece acknowledges that he is aware of the fact, he
\nwill not allow that fact to alter his approach to the race.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor sure it\u2019s in the back of my mind, but we\u2019re going to try to win the
\nrace and do what we\u2019ve been doing and hope things go our way,\u201d said Preece.
\n\u201cWhen you try to change things, that\u2019s usually when things go bad, so we\u2019re
\ngoing to try to win the race, and if we can\u2019t win, then we\u2019ll go for the
\nbest finish we can get.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Rocco was busy winning 7 of the first 11 races of the season, Preece
\nwon twice and was never more than a handful of points behind Rocco. With
\nRocco being the dominant car during the first half of the season, Preece and
\nhis #40 Sullivan and Sons team have become the dominant car in the second
\nhalf of the season. Preece has recorded three wins, a second, and a fourth
\nin the previous five races leading into tomorrow night\u2019s Final Friday Night
\nShoot-Out. Preece says that his recent good fortunes can be traced back to
\na practice session that he wasn\u2019t even a part of.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was in Loudon qualifying for the Modified Tour race and we had Donny
\nTravaglin practicing our car that night,\u201d said Preece. \u201cMike [Paquette]
\nmade a change to the car and Donny said it was a good change and to leave it
\non the car. I don\u2019t want to give too much away, but the change that Mike
\nmade gave the car a better entry into the corner, it rolled through the
\ncenter better, and it had a ton of forward bite getting off the corner. The
\ncar was already good and that change made it that much better, so I was
\npretty confident we were going to win some more races before the season was
\nover. That change has made a really big difference and it\u2019s been a total
\nteam effort this season. Between Bob Hitchcock, Kelly Iverson, Mike
\nPaquette, and everyone on my team and the 89 team, we\u2019ve really clicked and
\nwe all get along really well. Even though my car and the 89 car are out of
\nseparate shops, we operate like we\u2019re all out of the same shop.\u201d<\/p>\n
While the team had expectations to be among the championship contenders
\nprior to the start of the season, they now have to finish 16th or better on
\nFriday night to clinch their first SK Modified\u00ae championship.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur expectations at the beginning of the season were to run for the
\nchampionship, there\u2019s a lot of tough competition at Stafford,\u201d said Preece.
\n\u201cYou are racing against guys like Keith Rocco, Ted Christopher, Woody
\nPitkat, and Frank Ruocco, and you can\u2019t make a mistake if you want to win
\nthe championship at Stafford. If we can clinch the championship, it would
\nmean a lot to me, Bob, Kelly, Mike, the Poulins, and all my sponsors. The
\nteam has done an awesome job and I\u2019m sure that we\u2019ll have a great car again
\nlike we have all season long.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tickets for the Final Friday Night Shoot-Out are priced at $15.00 for Adult
\nGeneral Admission, $5.00 for children ages 6-14, and children ages 5 & under
\nare free. Reserved seating is $18.00 for all ages. Tickets can be ordered
\nby calling the Stafford Motor Speedway track office at 860-684-2783, or they
\nwill be available at the admission gates.<\/p>\n
For more information, contact the Stafford Motor Speedway track office at (Stafford Springs, CT)—Heading into the Final Friday Night Shoot-Out program at Stafford Speedway, Ryan Preece leads Keith Rocco by 82 points in the track\u2019s SK Modified\u00ae points standings. If Preece can finish in 16th place or higher tomorrow night, he will clinch the 2011 SK Modified\u00ae track championship. While Preece acknowledges that he is aware […]<\/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":[4161,72],"class_list":["post-7905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-modified","category-new-england","category-stafford-connecticut","tag-sk-modified","tag-stafford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905","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=7905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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