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ROB FULLER
MOTORSPORTS MAKES 2016 DEBUT START
Todd Szegedy To Pilot the 15-40 Connection Modified at
Stafford Motor Speedway |
 Rob
Fuller Motorsports (RFM) will be making their first
start of the 2016 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour (NWMT)
at Stafford Motor Speedway with Todd Szegedy behind
the wheel. The team will have a Research and
Development focus at the track this year while
continuing to promote the message of its charity
partner 15-40 Connection.
“This is actually the debut for Rob Fuller
Motorsports at Stafford,” said Rob Fuller, team
owner. “I've been to a lot of races there but never
actually fielded a car there. We have been
incredibly busy this winter and really hadn't
touched our car since Thompson last year which made
the Icebreaker tough to attend. If we cannot be 100%
we simply won't go, which was the case at Thompson.”
RFM’s goal for the 2016 race season is to serve as
an in-house Research and Development team for LFR
Chassis. The group will be experimenting new
equipment, set-ups and technology throughout the
season to help the chassis company continue to
progress and provide cutting-edge services to its
customers.
“R&D is really what I enjoy doing,” Fuller
continued. “I like to analyze data and come up with
set-ups that most teams do not have the resources to
do themselves. When we come up with a proven set-up
then we can share what we learned with the customers
at LFR Chassis. To make the teams spend their time
and money to develop a product just doesn't make
sense. It also leaves the customer further ahead
than the company and that's just bad business. This
will be a great year for our team I believe.”
Piloting the 15-40 Connection modified entry will be
Todd Szegedy, a 19-time winner and 2003 NWMT
Champion. Szegedy, who raced for RFM in 2014, is
looking forward to getting the opportunity to
experiment with set-ups and equipment throughout the
season.
“I’m very excited to be back working with Rob and
his team this year and look forward to our first
race of the season at Stafford,” said Szegedy. “When
I first worked with them two years ago, the cars and
company were new so we had a lot of trial and error
at the track. Now the cars have been raced and have
more reliability, so we can go back to doing some
R&D but have a much stronger baseline to refer to.
I’ve been racing a long time and I’m at the point in
my career where I enjoy trying new things, so I’m
looking forward to helping LFR Chassis improve their
performance even more.”
The Ridgefield, Conn. native has a long history of
success at Stafford Motor Speedway, collecting four
wins, 23 Top-5’s and 31 Top-10 finishes in his
career.
“Stafford is one of my most-visited tracks,” Szegedy
continued. “I enjoy racing there a lot. We’re going
out there this weekend with no points on the line to
worry about and look to just have fun while learning
a couple new things in the process! I do have quite
a few wins at Stafford, but I haven’t won the NAPA
Spring Sizzler yet so that’d be a cool bucket list
item to potentially check off this weekend,
especially with the support of 15-40 Connection on
board. They are a really great organization, and I
want to promote them the best I can at the track.”
RFM’s entry at Stafford Motor Speedway will be the
familiar 15-40 Connection paint scheme, as the race
team’s partnership with the non-profit is entering
its fourth year. 15-40 Connection is driving a new
cancer conversation to race fans across the country
with by asking them a simple yet powerful question
of if they would recognize a cancer symptom. The
organization is also teaching fans the three simple
steps that can help them recognize potential
warnings signs of cancer.
“This is the fourth season that Rob Fuller
Motorsports and 15-40 Connection have teamed up to
empower the lifesaving advantage of early cancer
detection,” said said Tricia Laursen, Executive
Director of 15-40 Connection. “RFM are helping
spread 15-40 Connection’s New Cancer Conversation
that teaches people how to recognize and act on
health changes that could be the early warning signs
of cancer and how to work with your doctor to
receive the best healthcare.”
For more information, please visit
www.LFRChassis.com and
http://NewCancerConversation.org.
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Source:
Kayla Darrow / Rob Fuller Motorsports
Posted:
April 21, 2016 |
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