by Jay | Mar 10, 2012 | Connecticut, New England, Stafford
(Stafford Springs, CT)—Like most teams during the off-season, the #41
TicketNetwork.com Late Model team of J.J. Hill has been hard at work
preparing for the 2012 Late Model season at Stafford. The team has been
preparing a brand new Late Model for the 2012 season, which has Hill excited
about his prospects for the upcoming season, where he is looking to be a
championship contender.
“We started from the ground up putting a new car together,” said Hill. “We’
ve been running some ancient equipment, so it’s nice to be building a new
car from the ground up. The car has everything we want in it, so we’re very
excited about the season.”
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by Jay | Mar 9, 2012 | Connecticut, New England, Stafford
(Stafford Springs, CT)—Stafford Motor Speedway has again lined up an
impressive field of current and former open wheel champions for its CARQUEST
Champions For Charities Event as part of CARQUEST Super Saturday on June
30th. During the coming weeks, SMS will offer a profile on each of its
championship winning drivers and the charity they will be racing for and
this week’s CARQUEST Champions For Charities spotlights falls on 2-time
Pro-4 Modified Limited champion Stan Mertz, who will be racing to support
the Connecticut chapter of Autism Speaks.
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by Jay | Mar 3, 2012 | Connecticut, New England, Stafford
(Stafford Springs, CT)—Stafford Motor Speedway has again lined up an
impressive field of current and former open wheel champions for its CARQUEST
Champions For Charities Event as part of CARQUEST Super Saturday on June
30th. During the coming weeks, SMS will offer a profile on each of its
championship winning drivers and the charity they will be racing for and
this week’s CARQUEST Champions For Charities spotlights falls on 2011
Riverhead Raceway Modified champion Justin Bonsignore, who will be racing to
support the Trinca Family Memorial Trust.
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by Jay | Feb 28, 2012 | Connecticut, Modified, New England, Stafford
(Stafford Springs, CT)—After making his Stafford debut for the final 3
races of the 2010 season, Paul Tommasino returned to Stafford’s SK Light
Modified division in 2011 and ran 12 of the 19 races, posting his first
career top-10 finish in the process. For the 2012 season, Tommasino is
looking to take his car to the next level and be a consistent top-5 threat
every week.
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by Jay | Feb 23, 2012 | Connecticut, New England, Stafford
(Stafford Springs, CT)—Fresh off of his rookie season in Stafford’s DARE
Stock division and a championship winning season in the Wild Thing Kart
Senior Outlaw division, David Arute will make the move into the Limited Late
Model division for the 2012 season at Stafford Motor Speedway. After making
his DARE Stock debut in 2010 with one top-10 finish in 5 starts, Arute
flourished in 2011, posting 7 top-5 and 16 top-10 finishes in 17 starts.
Arute’s numbers were good enough to place him 7th in the final DARE Stock
points standings despite the fact that he missed 2 races. The prospect of
moving up a level in competition has the high school senior looking forward
to the 2012 season.
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by Jay | Feb 22, 2012 | Connecticut, New England, Stafford
(Stafford Springs, CT)—While there are many drivers at Stafford Speedway
who will either be making their debuts or switching divisions for the 2012
season, Corey Hutchings will remain in the Late Model division, but be
racing for a new team. After two seasons behind the wheel of Billy Snow,
Sr.’s #87 car, Hutchings will sit behind the wheel of the #36 owned by Barry
Fluckiger. While Hutchings will return to the car number that he is
synonymous with, he will be joining a new team in hopes of chasing down his
second career Late Model championship at Stafford.
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