Archive for March 7th, 2008
Concord, NC — Most racecar drivers spend Thursday nights preparing for their busy weekends at the track. This season, Bobby Grigas III will instead spend those evenings moonlighting as the driver of a Sunoco Modified in the Whelen All-American Series at Thompson International Speedway. Grigas will drive an entry owned by Jimmy Page of Blackstone, Massachusetts, in the full schedule of Sunoco Modified races for 2008.
“I’ll be driving the #00 Sunoco Modified at Thompson,” said Grigas, who raced a Late Model at the track on a regular basis earlier in his career. “I’m psyched to go back to Thompson. For the last two years, I’ve wanted to get a Sunoco Modified ride there. When we go there [with the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour], I always try to watch the Sunoco Modified racing. They are so exciting and I get pumped watching that. It is hard-core racing – going out and banging wheels to win. That’s the kind of racing that I like. My parents told me that it seems like I’m even more excited about going and racing there then I am to race on the Tour.”
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It would be like Hank Steinbrenner leaving the Yankees to become the CEO of Red Sox nation, or Tony Stewart and Kurt Busch becoming drinking buddies.
That’s what many people had to think when it was announced that Stafford Motor Speedway three-time Late Model champion Ryan Posocco was going to join the No. 48 team owned by Marcia and Pat Kretschman.
“I’m pretty surprised myself,” Posocco said.
For the past several years, Posocco’s fiercest rival was the 48 team. To take the irony one step further, the driver of that car for the past two seasons, Woody Pitkat, is now Posocco’s teammate.
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