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(Stafford Springs, CT)—After a 2011 season that saw Joe Nogiec and the #00
\nAdopt a Pet team post a career best 9 top-10 finishes as well as a career
\nbest finish of 11th in the points standings, Nogiec and his team will look
\nto continue that forward trend in the 2012 season at Stafford Motor
\nSpeedway. Nogiec will have a new car with which to carry on his momentum
\nfrom the 2011 season. Nogiec and his team have purchased the #38 car from
\nGary Bienkowski that was driven to 5 wins and a second place finish in the
\n2011 standings by George Nocera, Jr, and they are looking forward the 2012
\nseason after what Nogiec says was a trying 2011 season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had an opportunity to buy the 38 car, so we jumped on it and hopefully
\nwe can get something going for next year,\u201d said Nogiec. \u201cLast year was an
\nabomination for us, we\u2019ve definitely had better years than we had last year.
\nIt was a tough year, I was ready to hang it up after the season was over.
\nWe were so close to finishing in the top-10, but we had an awful last race
\nand Carla [Botticello] got by us for that spot. But we had a lot of great
\nsupport from guys like Norm Sears and Shawn Thibeault in our division as
\nwell as drivers from other divisions, and we appreciated everyone\u2019s support
\nthroughout the season. With this new car, it seems like we have a new life
\nand we\u2019re looking forward to coming to the track. We\u2019re putting the same
\nequipment back into the car that was taken out of it before we bought it, so
\nwe\u2019re feeling good about the 2012 season. We have Adopt A Pet coming back
\non board with us as a sponsor and I\u2019d like to give them a special thanks for
\ntheir support, and I\u2019d also like to thank the guys at Civali\u2019s Auto Service
\nfor their support.\u201d<\/p>\n
With the new car seeming to be half of the success equation for Nogiec and
\nthe #00 team, Nogiec knows the second half of success will be to improve his
\ndriving style on track.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve taken care of the car part this winter, so now I have to work on my
\ndriving style come April,\u201d said Nogiec. \u201cI know I have to work on my
\npatience behind the wheel. I\u2019ve learned that Stafford is a patience track
\nand I find that sometimes I try to do too much too quickly. We need to work
\non setup and get a handle on the car. Although this will be our 4th season
\nat Stafford, I feel like I still have a lot to learn to be better. Right
\nnow, I\u2019m only touching the tip of the iceberg. Norm [Sears] and Shawn
\n[Thibeault] took my car out a couple of times in practice this year and they
\nwere seeing some of the same things wrong with the car that I was, so that
\nwas a good confidence builder in my feedback to the team with them being
\nStafford veterans.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Nogiec enjoyed a career high in top-10 finishes this past season with
\n9, his best career finish was a second place effort at the 2010 Fall Final
\nfeature event, and Nogiec and his team have their sights set on repeating
\nthat second place performance as many times as they can during the 2012
\nseason.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember that race like it was yesterday,\u201d said Nogiec. \u201cWhile it felt
\nreally good to be on the podium that day, we kind of fell into that second
\nplace and this year we want to be able to earn second place finishes. Our
\nmain goal is to be in the mix every week and be in the top-5 every week. If
\nwe could win a race or two, that would be super. It\u2019s been a while since we
\n\u2019ve won a race, so we\u2019re all hungry and this is our best opportunity to win
\nin a long time. We really have good hopes for the 2012 season.\u201d
\nOne thing that Nogiec can depend on is his family. His crew consists of
\nhimself, his father Mike, his wife Amanda, his uncle Dave, and his cousin
\nJosh.<\/p>\n
\u201cGood or bad, my family is always there for me,\u201d said Nogiec. \u201cMy wife does
\na lot more than any other racing wife, she gives me great support win or
\nlose. We all have some revived faith for the upcoming season and we\u2019d like
\nto be able to win it all at the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 2012 season at Stafford Motor Speedway begins with the 41st Annual
\nCARQUEST Tech-Net Spring Sizzler on April 27-April 29, 2012.<\/p>\n
For more information, contact the Stafford Motor Speedway track office at (Stafford Springs, CT)—After a 2011 season that saw Joe Nogiec and the #00 Adopt a Pet team post a career best 9 top-10 finishes as well as a career best finish of 11th in the points standings, Nogiec and his team will look to continue that forward trend in the 2012 season at Stafford Motor […]<\/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-8648","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\/8648","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=8648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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