Staying out of trouble on a day when plenty of equipment was sacrificed on the racetrack paid big dividends for Woody Pitkat and the #28 King Racing team on Sunday at Stafford Motor Speedway’s Spring Sizzler for the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour. Pitkat used his talent, a good racecar and the right decisions of his team to record a seventh-place finish in the second WMT event of the 2009 season.

“We were trying to figure out a gameplan for what actually happens in this race,” said Pitkat. “It seems like there are usually a lot of cautions early and our strategy was to come in early and then with 75 laps to go. But in the end, there were so many cars on the lead lap, we just tried to hang on and get a top 10. I wanted to rebound with a top 10 after Thompson.”

Prior to the 200-lap NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour feature, Pitkat also competed in the 40-lap SK Modified feature at Stafford. He drove to a ninth-place finish, but a pair of penalties really put a damper on the race for him.

Pitkat’s first penalty came after an incident with Ted Christopher while the two drivers were battling for the second position.

“I got loose and got into Ted and he spun,” said Pitkat. “I’ll take the blame for that. I don’t think that I should have been put for the rear for that. He was on the verge of coming down across my nose, so it was a 50/50 thing. I think that probably benefitted both me and Ted because it kept us out a serious accident later on.”

Another penalty came later in the race.

“I was passing a rookie and he wiggled when I pass him. So they black-flagged me because they said that I clipped the dirt. I thought after the wreck, that we had a good enough car to end up in the top five but that call took us out of that. So you just have to let it go and move on to the next week.”

Woody Pitkat's # 52 SK Modified  (Top) and his Tour Modified #28  (Bottom - Jim Dupont Photoa)

Pitkat Takes Two Top 10's at Spring Sizzler

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