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BRANDEN DION TO
MAKE STAFFORD SPEEDWAY
MODIFIED RACING SERIES DEBUT |
Armed
with a new Troyer car, Taunton, MA native Branden
Dion is ready to make his first start in a Valenti
Modified Racing Series car at Stafford Motor
Speedway this Friday night. Dion has run the prior
two races on the 2015 VMRS schedule at Seekonk and
Lee and the former SK Light and current SK Modified®
driver is looking forward to continuing his learning
curve in the VMRS series at a track that he has a
level of familiarity with behind the wheel of the
#04 Triple D Racing / Doug King Builders machine.
“We’ve ran twice so far at Seekonk and Lee,” said
Dion. “We’re still learning and we have a wide
variety of things to learn with the car. We finished
19th at Lee and we were right around there at
Seekonk. I have some seat time and experience at
Stafford and I would say my goal for the race is to
continue learning, get a good finish, and keep the
car in one piece.”
Dion was an SK Light Modified rookie driver last
season and he drove to a 3rd place finish in the
points standings while collecting his very first
feature win. This season saw Dion move up to the SK
Modified® ranks, where his best finish in 4 starts
has been 14th. After his SK car was damaged in an
accident, Dion’s family went out and bought a Troyer
car to campaign in the Modified Racing Series.
“I’m looking forward to the race,” said Dion. “Our
SK car got bent up in a wreck and we’ve kind of
shifted gears towards the MRS car for now. We picked
this car up a couple of days after we sent our SK
car out to our chassis guy and it’s a Troyer house
car that Jimmy Zacharias drove a couple of times.
The car was down in Florida, but the guy we bought
it from had only raced it a couple of times. I’m
really looking forward to the race to keep on
gaining experience and with my experience at
Stafford I think I’ll feel pretty comfortable racing
with these guys.”
The June 26 VMRS 80 will be the second of three
Valenti Modified Racing Series events to be held at
Stafford during 2015, with the third and final VMRS
race to be held on September 4th. Tickets for both
races are on sale now and are priced at $27.50 for
adult general admission tickets, $5.00 for children
ages 6-14, and children ages 5 and under are
admitted free of charge when accompanied by an
adult. All ticket prices include 10% CT Admission
Tax. Stafford Motor Speedway offers plenty of free
parking along with overnight parking for self
contained Recreational Vehicles.
For more information, contact the Stafford Motor
Speedway track office at 860-684-2783 or visit us on
the web at
www.staffordspeedway.com.
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Source:
Scott Running / Stafford Motor Speedway
Posted:
June 24, 2015 |
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