by Jay | Oct 15, 2011 | Connecticut, Stafford
(Stafford Springs, CT)—The 2011 SK Light season at Stafford Motor Speedway
saw Cody Gneiting outlast Tony Membrino, Jr. in a fight for the Reliable
Welding and Speed Rookie of the Year award that came down to the final race
of the 2011 season. Gneiting began his racing career in the quarter midget
ranks, where he scored 6 championships before moving into the Allison Legacy
Series. From there Gneiting made the move into the SK Light division, and
he posted 3 top-5 and 10 top-10 finishes this season in the #89 MTV
Solutions Pontiac to take home the Rookie of the Year honors.
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by Jay | Oct 15, 2011 | Connecticut, Stafford
(Stafford Springs, CT)—Of all the drivers who have won a Reliable Welding
and Speed Rookie of the Year title at Stafford Motor Speedway in years past,
2011 Late Model Rookie of the Year Peter Thickett has perhaps the strangest
path taken to that outcome. Thickett originally hails from High Wycombe,
England, and after a racing career full road course racing, Thickett took to
a full bodied car on an oval for the very first time this season at
Stafford. The result was a Rookie of the Year campaign that saw Thickett
and the #33 Siemon Company team post their lone top-10 finish of the 2011
season in the final race of the year. (more…)
by Jay | Oct 15, 2011 | Connecticut, Stafford
(Stafford Springs, CT)—After several seasons and two victories in Stafford
’s SK Light division, Granby, MA native Heather DesRochers made the move up
the Stafford ladder into the SK Modified® division for the 2011 season.
DesRochers and her #24 Gunsmoke Stables team qualified for every race during
the 2011 season, and she posted two top-10 finishes this year to finish in
16th place in the SK Modified® standings and win the Reliable Welding and
Speed Rookie of the Year award. (more…)
by Jay | Oct 15, 2011 | Connecticut, Stafford
(Stafford Springs, CT)—With the 2011 Stafford Motor Speedway season
concluded, the speedway will honor its track champions at the 42nd Annual
Stafford Motor Speedway Champions Awards Ceremony on Friday, November 18th
at the La Renaissance Banquet Facility in East Windsor. A crowd of over 500
guests is expected to be on hand as the Connecticut half-mile hands out its
post-season awards. (more…)
by Jay | Oct 8, 2011 | Connecticut, New England, Stafford
(Stafford Springs, CT)—After kicking off the 2011 season with plans to
step out of the car midway through the year, Don Wood flipped the script and
captured his second career DARE Stock track championship at Stafford Motor
Speedway. After winning the 2009 DARE Stock championship, Wood ran the
first half of the 2010 season then handed his car over to David and Paul
Arute. The plan was the same for 2011, as Wood was going to run the first
half of the year and then hand the car over to Stephanie Berardi and Charlie
Newman. But the plan changed midway through the season and the result was a
second career championship for Wood and his John Berardi owned #15.
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by Jay | Oct 7, 2011 | Connecticut, Stafford
(Stafford Springs, CT)—For Stafford Motor Speedway Limited Late Model
driver Kevin Gambacorta, the 2011 season played out like déją vu all over
again. After winning the DARE Stock track championship in 2004, Gambacorta
claimed his first Ltd. Late Model track title in 2006 by the narrowest of
margins, 2 points ahead of George Nocera. When the final checkered flag of
the 2011 season fell on the Ltd. Late Model cars at the CARQUEST Fall Final
Weekend, Gambacorta was again the champion, but by a 4 point margin over
Nocera and a 6 point margin over Shawn Thibeault. (more…)
