After running Thunder Car for the past several years at Peterborough Speedway, Dan Price is set to take his racing on road in 2015, joining the OSCAAR Modified tour.
“There’s a lot of excitement for 2015 with the move to our faster car and a touring series stacked full of veterans and young hot shots,” Price said. “The plan is to get seat time, finish all the races and get this program moving in a direction of getting faster and faster as the season rolls on. I really like these cars and this series, this is where I see our team making our home for some time.”
Price says he made the decision to move up, feeling that it was the right time based on the amount of years that he has been behind the wheel of a Thunder Car.
“You get to the point where you outspend the class. I didn’t think it was my class anymore,” he explained. “I wanted more, and I didn’t want to run that class by spending more in the Thunder Car and going more into it. It was time. I’d done as much as I felt I should do to a Thunder Car, and it was just time to move on.”
The move follows one of his best Thunder Car seasons in his career that saw him run up front throughout the season at Peterborough Speedway. It also featured one of the biggest highlights – his first career victory.
“It meant a lot,” he commented. “It was a long time….It meant everything. That’s what you work for. It was nice to have that. Hopefully we’ll get another one, but I’ll always have that one.”
Now set forth for the new challenge in 2015, the driver of the No. 09 Hy-Hope Farm and Golf Course, Langille’s Scrap and Cores, and A&T Mechanical Modified says that the goals for this year are to finish each event, not tear anything up and learn as much as he can.
“I’ll be at a two to three year learning curve with this car,” he added. “I’m not going throw buckets and buckets of money at it and try and come out of the gate like gangbusters. It’s a building process. We’re going to have some fun, stay out of trouble and get laps. That’s the plan.”
The OSCAAR tour also brings forth a pair of trips to Peterborough Speedway, where Price hopes to have a good showing in front of the hometown crowd.
“I’m looking forward to Peterborough,” he commented. “A lot of fans there, a lot of laps around that place – I have more laps than any other track on the schedule. Just looking forward to going back to home.”
Though beyond the OSCAAR schedule, Price has also expressed in interest in taking hte modified down to the Call of the Wild event at Kalamazoo Speedway in Michigan.
“It’s the same weekend as the Rick Woolner Memorial – I’d hate to miss that, but at that point and late in the season, if I’m far back to contend for Rookie of the Year, I may take that weekend and head to Michigan,” he commented. “I’m very excited to get the wide tire, fast car on Kalamazoo. As fun as it was in the Thunder Car and how fast that car was around, I’d really like to try a fast car.”
