On
the last night of Tour Type Modified racing at New Smyrna Speedway the 2011
championship was a final battle between point leader Ted Christopher and
second place Chuck Hossfeld. Chuck was able to capture the win, his third,
as the checker flags flew but in the end he was just six points shy of
winning his first New Smyrna Speedweek’s Championship. “Congratulations to
those guys (#00 Joe Brady Team). I think that Teddy won the championship ten
times that is pretty amazing. I want to thank my team. They did a heck of a
job. I know that we did not win the championship (Tour Type Mod), but maybe
next year for us”, Hossfeld said while in victory lane.
“When we put the car on the scales today, we saw we made a mistake last
night and we corrected it. It (the #22 car) was as strong as it was all
week. I could roll around the top and carry so much momentum. It was just a
good race.”
Every race the Hossfeld #22 car came out on the track pristine and ready for
racing. The car managed to race hard all week and avoid incidents. So the
#22 team were one of the lucky crews that left with a car prepared to go
forward in the 2011 season with minor adjustments or fixes. “This car has
every same bolt and bar and everything on it (that the team came with). Our
worst finish was last night and it was a seventh. That just shows you what
type of championship that we had going on.”
And as the Hossfeld team packs up to go home they had a lot to be proud of.
They may not have won the championship but they showed the racing community
what they are made of. “I just want to thank my whole team. This is a big
deal for them to come down and take all that time off and work as hard as we
have. I especially want to thank Ron Hutter for a great motor and RaceWorks
Chassis. This is a great car.”
The
crew of the Joe Bray #00 car came to New Smyrna Speedway with one goal – to
win the Tour Type Mod championship. And capture the championship they did
while collecting three wins.
This was Ted Christopher’s tenth overall New Smyrna Speedweeks championship.
Nine were with the Tour Type Mods and one with the SK Mods. “I want to thank
Joe Brady. I always drive his car here. I want to especially thank Scott
Anderson who helps and sets this car up for me every time we come to
SpeedWeeks. It was a good championship win.”
The Brady team did not have the strongest car for the last race and as they
sat in Championship circle they check out the car to see what happened to
cause them to be a little off. “We just looked at it (#00 car) and it lost
three quarters of an inch of stagger”, said TC. “With these cars stagger is
a big thing. But that is not to make any excuses. It was a great run for
Chuck and congratulations to him. But I am glad that we won the championship
again!”
So as we prepare to head north back to the snow and cold, we dream of the
NASCAR Southern Whelen Modified Tour at Caraway just weeks away followed a
few weeks later by the Ice Breaker at Thompson International Speedway for
the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour.
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