{"id":9791,"date":"2012-05-24T22:11:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T02:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9791"},"modified":"2012-05-25T07:05:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T11:05:05","slug":"spring-sizzler-champion-doug-coby-hopes-to-make-it-two-in-a-row-at-stafford-in-tsi-harley-davidson-125","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/spring-sizzler-champion-doug-coby-hopes-to-make-it-two-in-a-row-at-stafford-in-tsi-harley-davidson-125\/","title":{"rendered":"SPRING SIZZLER CHAMPION DOUG COBY HOPES TO MAKE IT TWO IN A ROW AT STAFFORD IN TSI HARLEY-DAVIDSON 125"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Stafford Springs, CT)—Doug Coby, who won the CARQUEST Tech-Net Spring
\nSizzler last month at Stafford, will look to make it two-for-two when the
\nNASCAR Whelen Modified Tour returns to Stafford next Friday night for the
\n22nd Annual TSI Harley-Davidson 125. Of Coby\u2019s 3 career Whelen Modified
\nTour wins, 2 have come in the Spring Sizzler. That fact, combined with Coby
\n\u2019s two Stafford track championships, has the Milford native excited about
\nthe prospects of making it two in a row at Stafford.
\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThe car was awesome at the Sizzler, so I would expect the car is going to
\nbe awesome again next Friday night,\u201d said Coby. \u201cThe night race will be
\ndifferent, even though it\u2019s only a couple of weeks after the Sizzler, the
\ntrack is always different in the May race from the Sizzler. The last three
\nSizzlers the pole time has been in the 17\u2019s and in May it\u2019s usually drops
\noff to 18.2, 3, or 4, and it\u2019s an impound race, so we\u2019ll have to qualify the
\nway we\u2019re going to race. We all make a lot of adjustments for time trials
\nto click off a good lap, but we probably make less adjustments for time
\ntrials, so that might help us a bit. You see certain guys who qualify up
\nfront for the two-day shows that don\u2019t qualify up front for the one-day
\nshows.\u201d<\/p>\n

After splitting time between two teams last season, Coby will be behind the
\nwheel of Wayne Darling\u2019s #52 Furnace and Duct Chevrolet for the entire 2012
\nschedule. Although they raced together last year, the Coby\/Darling pairing
\nis still a relatively new combination and Coby says that the team chemistry
\nis one of the key reasons why they are sitting second in the Whelen Modified
\nTour standings heading into the TSI Harley-Davidson 125.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year was different racing for two teams and we had good runs with both
\nteams,\u201d said Coby. \u201cWith Wayne\u2019s team now, I think we\u2019re still getting to
\nknow each other, we\u2019ve only raced together 14 times by my count. John
\nMcKenna, my crew chief, is really starting to learn me really well and what
\nthe car setup needs to react with me and he definitely uses each race we go
\nto as a spingboard for our next race. At first, he was making changes for
\nthe feature like he would for some of the other drivers that were in the
\ncar, and not that we were bad, it just wasn\u2019t as good as we wanted it to be.
\nI like the car to be a little freer to start off with and he doesn\u2019t have to
\ntighten the car up as much as he did with some other drivers. It\u2019s nice to
\nknow that when we show up we\u2019re usually pretty decent and the thing about
\nJohn\u2019s cars is that they last the whole race. That\u2019s how we were when we
\nwon at Thompson last year and how we were at the Sizzler. With this car,
\nhow I manage the race and the way John sets the car up really meshes well
\ntogether and it makes me look good because the car stays under me. We\u2019re
\nreally clicking with the setup and the communication and we\u2019re not making
\nstupid moves, which is really working out for us right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the TSI Harley-Davidson race being 125 laps instead of 150 laps, it
\nopens up a wide variety of options for teams to take different strategies.
\n\u201cIn a 150 we\u2019re definitely going to pit, with the 125 we may not,\u201d said
\nCoby. \u201cIt all depends on how good the car is and what our track position
\nis. Unless there\u2019s only 10 cars on the lead lap with 50 laps to go, you\u2019re
\nnot going to get back up to the leaders to go by them at Stafford. It\u2019s
\ngoing to be interesting when it comes time for pit stops. If we\u2019re in the
\ntop-2 and everyone pits behind us, you\u2019ll have guys with 2 tires right
\nbehind you. If a lot of guys stay out, then it will be a lot harder to get
\nback through the field. If everyone pits, a car that pits will win the
\nrace, but if 10 or 12 guys stay out for track position when everyone else
\ncomes in, then a car that stays out will win the race I think. The key is
\nhow many guys will have the same strategy that you do when it comes to
\npitting and when you pit. At STafford it\u2019s not about when you pit, it\u2019s
\nabout how many cars come into the pits when you do. Like at the Sizzler, we
\npitted from second and we came out third of the cars that pitted and we
\nrestarted sixth. Ryan [Preece] and I were back in the lead after a couple
\nof laps and it was like we never pitted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tickets for the 22nd Annual TSI Harley-Davidson 125 are available and on
\nsale now at the Speedway Box Office. Tickets are priced at $33.00 for adult
\ngeneral admission tickets, $5.00 for children ages 6-14, and children ages 5
\nand under are admitted free of charge when accompanied by an adult. Reserved
\nseating will be priced at $35.00 for all ages. All ticket prices include
\n10% CT Admission Tax. As always, Stafford Motor Speedway offers free
\nparking with overnight parking available.<\/p>\n

Visit NERacingForum.Com<\/a> for latest New England Racing community News and updates.<\/p>\n

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(Stafford Springs, CT)—Doug Coby, who won the CARQUEST Tech-Net Spring Sizzler last month at Stafford, will look to make it two-for-two when the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour returns to Stafford next Friday night for the 22nd Annual TSI Harley-Davidson 125. Of Coby\u2019s 3 career Whelen Modified Tour wins, 2 have come in the Spring Sizzler. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[6787,7966],"class_list":["post-9791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-modified","category-new-england","category-stafford-connecticut","tag-doug-coby","tag-stafford-speedway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9791","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=9791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}