RACING AGAINST CANCER™ TRACK WALK DATE ANNOUNCED FOR STAFFORD SPEEDWAY JUNE 19, 2011

by | Feb 19, 2011 | Connecticut, Stafford

RACING AGAINST CANCER™ TRACK WALK DATE ANNOUNCED FOR STAFFORD SPEEDWAY JUNE 19, 2011

(Stafford Springs, CT)—Stafford Springs, CT (February 18, 2011) – Stafford
Motor Speedway in conjunction with Racing Against Cancer™ are pleased to
announce a 2011 date to host a Prelude to the CARQUEST Extreme Tuesday
Champions For Charities: The Racing Against Cancer™ Track Walk at Stafford
Speedway. The Sunday June 19, 2011 event will help lead the anticipation of
the Champions For Charities event at CARQUEST Extreme Tuesday on June 28,
2011.
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NCWTS Race Recap: Waltrip slingshots past Sadler for Daytona truck win

by | Feb 19, 2011 | NASCAR

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—Ten years to the day from his first victory in the Daytona 500, Michael Waltrip made a slingshot pass of Elliott Sadler at the end of a green-white-checkered-flag finish Friday night to win the NextEra Energy Resources 250 Camping World Truck Series race at Daytona International Speedway.

The victory in the season opener, which went three laps past its scheduled distance of 100 laps, was Waltrip’s first in the truck series.

It also was the 10th anniversary of the death of Dale Earnhardt Sr., who owned the car Waltrip drove to his 2001 Daytona 500 victory. Waltrip is racing in all three of NASCAR’s top three touring series this weekend, and he decaled his truck and cars to honor Earnhardt.
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Kevin Harvick Interview

by | Feb 19, 2011 | NASCAR

KEVIN HARVICK, NO. 29 BUDWEISER CHEVROLET, met with members of the media a Daytona International Speedway and discussed his week in Daytona so far, where you want to be at the end of the race, the increased speeds and much more. Full transcript:

TALK ABOUT WHAT KIND OF WEEK YOU’VE HAD SO FAR IN DAYTONA. “Well it hasn’t been a bad week. Obviously we would have liked to have won a race of some sort by now but I think as we’ve gone through the week we’ve been leading laps and racing in the front of the two races we’ve run so far and feel like we’re comfortable with where we are at with our car and just with the type of racing and the conditions that we are racing in. You just got to put yourself, keep yourself in position to be able to win, so that’s what we’ve been trying to do and hopefully it plays out for us on Sunday.”
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CARQUEST CHAMPIONS FOR CHARITIES DRIVER SPOTLIGHT: TODD SZEGEDY

by | Feb 19, 2011 | Connecticut, Stafford

CARQUEST CHAMPIONS FOR CHARITIES DRIVER SPOTLIGHT: TODD SZEGEDY

(Stafford Springs, CT)— As the excitement builds for the June 28th
CARQUEST Extreme Tuesday Champions for Charities event, Stafford Speedway
has been busy coordinating charities and the drivers that will represent
them. The field for the CARQUEST Champions for Charities race is
impressive, as it represents 42 championships among 12 drivers and 5
different open wheel divisions. Todd Szegedy, the 2003 NASCAR Whelen
Modified Tour Champion, will be racing to help support The Foundation For
Life.
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