{"id":20071,"date":"2015-12-23T14:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T19:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=20071"},"modified":"2015-12-23T14:00:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T19:00:43","slug":"tq-midgets-added-napa-auto-parts-fall-final-weekend-stafford-motor-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/tq-midgets-added-napa-auto-parts-fall-final-weekend-stafford-motor-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"TQ Midgets Added to NAPA Auto Parts Fall Final Weekend at Stafford Motor Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TQ Midgets Added to NAPA Auto Parts Fall Final Weekend at Stafford Motor Speedway<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Stafford Springs, CT)&#8212;The American Three Quarter Midget Racing Association (ATQMRA) will make their inaugural appearance at Stafford Speedway during the 2016 NAPA Auto Parts Fall Final on the weekend of October 1-2, in a $1,000 to win 30-lap feature on the Stafford mini-mile.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited to bring a new kind of racing to Stafford to close out our 2016 race season,\u201d explained Stafford GM\/COO Mark Arute.  \u201cThe TQ midgets have been putting on great shows the last few years in the indoor racing series and since our mini-mile is right around the same size as most of the indoor venues, we thought it would be a great addition to our NAPA Fall Final weekend.  The mini-mile will be seeing some great action throughout 2016 with the US Legend Cars, the Wild Thing Kart Jr Outlaws and Sr. Champs and now the TQ midgets.\u201d<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Recent excitement surrounding Indoor TQ midget racing has attracted some of the best in northeast racing including Ted Christopher, Ryan Preece, Justin Bonsignore, Patrick Emerling, and Jimmy Blewett.  Stafford\u2019s all-time winningest driver Christopher, who has multiple wins on the indoor circuit including 2 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City has already committed to the Oct 1st event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to that race,\u201d said Christopher.  \u201cI\u2019ve been pretty successful with my TQ with the indoor stuff and I\u2019m excited about the opportunity to race it outdoors.  Stafford should be a real good track and I think it\u2019ll be a lot of fun.  The Legend Cars seem to get around that track pretty well and we have a little bit softer tire on the TQ cars so it should be some good racing.  I hope they get a lot of cars for the show.  I\u2019d say the mini-mile is a bit longer on the straightaways than what we normally run indoors and the turns are pretty similar.  I have two cars and I\u2019m definitely going to be in one car and we\u2019ll probably have someone else driving the second car.  It would be pretty nice to be able to add a TQ win to my list of wins at Stafford.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ATQMRA cars will qualify for their 30-lap feature in 8-lap heat races and their feature event will fill out a card that already includes the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, Stafford\u2019s weekly SK Modified\u00ae, Late Model, SK Light, Limited Late Model, and DARE Stock divisions plus Legend Cars.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the NAPA Fall Final Weekend are available and on sale now at the Stafford Speedway Box Office.  Tickets are priced at $38.50 for adult general admission tickets, $5.00 for children ages 6-14, and children ages 5 and under are admitted free of charge when accompanied by an adult.  Reserved seating is priced at $42.00 for all ages.  As always, Stafford Motor Speedway offers free parking with overnight parking available.  All tickets are good for both Saturday and Sunday admission and all ticket prices include 10% CT Admission Tax. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TQ Midgets Added to NAPA Auto Parts Fall Final Weekend at Stafford Motor Speedway (Stafford Springs, CT)&#8212;The American Three Quarter Midget Racing Association (ATQMRA) will make their inaugural appearance at Stafford Speedway during the 2016 NAPA Auto Parts Fall Final on the weekend of October 1-2, in a $1,000 to win 30-lap feature on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[196,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-stafford-connecticut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20072,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20071\/revisions\/20072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}