by Jay | Oct 1, 2011 | Connecticut, New England, Stafford
GALKO, GAMBACORTA, & WOOD SCORE TRACK CHAMPIONSHIPS
(Stafford Springs, CT)—Stafford Motor Speedway kicked off its final race
event of the 2011 season with feature events for its SK Light, Limited Late
Model, and DARE Stock divisions as part of the Saturday CARQUEST Fall Final
Weekend festivities. Frank Cardile picked up his first feature victory of
the 2011 season in the SK Light feature and Matt Galko secured his second
consecutive track championship with a 9th place finish. Cory Casagrande
picked up his third win of the 2011 season in the 20-lap Limited Late Model
feature and Kevin Gambacorta locked down his second career Ltd. Late Model
track championship with a 7th place finish. Kelsey Rottino captured his
first career victory in the 15-lap DARE Stock feature event while Don Wood
captured his second DARE Stock track championship with a second place
finish. Albert Saunders was the winner of the 8-lap Paradiso-Muska DARE
Stock Shoot-Out. (more…)
by Jay | Oct 1, 2011 | Connecticut, Thompson
POST SEASON MEANS WORLD SERIES
THOMPSON, CT. Baseball and auto racing at Thompson International Speedway have one big thing in common. Both present an amazing post season event known as the World Series. In the case of the Thompson Speedway, it’s the 38th annual Sunoco World Series of Speedway Racing presented by Town Fair Tire and XTRA/MART on the weekend of October 14th-16th.
Racing’s World Series at Thompson is a massive three-day racing spectacle that features 15 different divisions of race cars and trucks. Topping the bill will be the Super Modifieds of ISMA, the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, NEMA Midgets, Thompson’s ‘Super 6” NASCAR Whelen All-American Series divisions and many more.
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by Jay | Sep 29, 2011 | Connecticut, Stafford
(Stafford Springs, CT)—Rick Charette will return to Stafford behind the
wheel of a Late Model for this weekend’s CARQUEST Fall Final. Charette will
be behind the wheel of the #27 car owned by Jim “Smokey” Brice, which is the
same car that Keith Rocco has driven to 3 Late Model victories this season.
Brice purchased the car from Daren Clark and Charette and Brice will use
this weekend’s CARQUEST Fall Final as a shake-down session in preparation
for a full schedule of Late Model racing at Stafford for the 2012 season.
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by Jay | Sep 29, 2011 | Connecticut, Thompson
THOMPSON, CT. For the third consecutive week, rain has forced the postponement of Thompson Speedway’s Thursday Night Thunder race program. The track will attempt to run the final track points race of the year next Thursday, October 6th.
The amazing string of rainy Thursdays has frustrated racers, fans and track management. However, Thompson Owner and Promoter, Don Hoenig, today expressed his thanks to loyal fans and competitors for their understanding and said that he hopes that we all will get a break in a weather pattern that has targeted Thursdays in New England.
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by Jay | Sep 22, 2011 | Connecticut, New England, Thompson
THOMPSON, CT. Rainy weather has once again forced the postponement of Thursday Night Thompson Thunder. The final track points race of the season is now scheduled for Thursday, September 29th.
“This has been very difficult on the competitors and fans alike, said track owner Don Hoenig. But, we want to try once again to settle the four outstanding championship battles within our NASCAR Whelen All-American Series racing divisions. These competitors have worked very hard all year long. But, we have had seven events rained out this season and we feel it is only fair to try one more time to let racers settle these championships on the track,” Hoenig concluded. (more…)
by Jay | Sep 18, 2011 | Connecticut, NASCAR, Stafford
(Stafford Springs, CT)—When the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour visits
Stafford Motor Speedway, Todd Szegedy is normally among the pre-race
favorites to contend for victory. Szegedy was a regular SK Modified®
competitor at Stafford before moving onto the Whelen Modified Tour and he
has 4 career WMT wins at Stafford. But the 2011 season has been unkind to
Szegedy and the #2 Wisk team in the three races held at Stafford this
season. A crash in the Spring Sizzler in April left him with a 24th place
finish and two spins in the August race left him with a 14th place finish to
go along with a 6th place finish in the May event at Stafford. Szegedy
hopes to have his bad luck at Stafford put behind him when the green flag
falls for the CARQUEST Fall Final 150. (more…)
