by Jay | Feb 18, 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 defending
Stafford SK Modified® champion Ryan Preece, who will be racing to support
the Connecticut chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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by Jay | Feb 8, 2012 | Connecticut, Stafford
(Stafford Springs, CT)—As teams prepare for the 2012 season at Stafford
Motor Speedway, Limited Late Model driver Jesse Hinze is hard at work
preparing his car in hopes of reaching victory lane for the first time in
his career at Stafford. The 2012 season will be Hinze’s 7th season at
Stafford, he spent the first three years of his career in the DARE Stock
division before moving into the Limited Late Model division in 2009. The
move to the Ltd. Late Model division has seen Hinze become a consistent
driver, finishing 8th in points for three consecutive seasons. After coming
close on more than one occasion to winning a feature, Hinze is looking to
break into the win column this year at Stafford.
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by Jay | Feb 8, 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 8-time ISMA
Supermodified champion Russ Wood, who will be racing to support Racing
Against Cancer™.
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by Jay | Feb 3, 2012 | Connecticut, New England, Stafford
(Stafford Springs, CT)—Stafford Speedway has begun the process of sending
out special invitations to past and present open wheel championship winning
drivers to make up the starting field for the 2nd Annual CARQUEST Champions
For Charities race. The CARQUEST Champions For Charities race will be part
of the CARQUEST Super Saturday program, which will feature the ISMA
Supermodifieds, NEMA Midgets, and Pro-4 Modifieds. The special invitation
only field of open wheel champions will sit behind the wheel of Wild Thing
Kart Senior Outlaw karts and participate in a special 15-lap race while
raising money for a charity of their choosing.
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by Jay | Jan 29, 2012 | Connecticut, New England, Stafford
(Stafford Springs, CT)—Stafford Speedway’s SK Modified® division will
welcome another new member for the 2012 season as Danny Cates will join the
division. Cates has several top-5 points finishes in the modified division
at Thompson Speedway, finishing as high in the points standings as second.
Cates came to Stafford for the 2011 CARQUEST Fall Final in preparation for a
full season of SK Modified® racing in 2012, where he intends to run for
Rookie of the Year honors.
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