{"id":3775,"date":"2010-11-13T14:15:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T19:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2010-11-13T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T19:00:00","slug":"stafford-motor-speedway-releases-2011-nascar-whelen-all-american-series-event-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/stafford-motor-speedway-releases-2011-nascar-whelen-all-american-series-event-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"STAFFORD MOTOR SPEEDWAY RELEASES ITS 2011 NASCAR WHELEN ALL-AMERICAN SERIES EVENT SCHEDULE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>STAFFORD MOTOR SPEEDWAY RELEASES ITS 2011 NASCAR WHELEN ALL-AMERICAN SERIES<br \/>\nEVENT SCHEDULE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Stafford Springs, CT)&#8212;Stafford Motor Speedway has released its 2011<br \/>\nNASCAR Whelen All-American Series event schedule.   SMS will host a total of<br \/>\n23 racing events, with the 2011 NASCAR season kicking off with the 40th<br \/>\nAnnual Tech-Net Spring Sizzler presented by CARQUEST on April 29-May 1, and<br \/>\nconcluding with the 39th Annual CARQUEST Fall Final Weekend on September<br \/>\n30-October 2.<!--more--><br \/>\nIn addition to the CARQUEST Tech-Net Spring Sizzler and CARQUEST Fall Final<br \/>\nWeekend Whelen Modified Tour events, Stafford will also host the Whelen<br \/>\nModified Tour on May 27 for the 21st Annual Connecticut Classic 125, and on<br \/>\nAugust 5 for the 21st Annual Stafford 150, giving the track a total of four<br \/>\nWhelen Modified Tour events for the 2011 season.<br \/>\nThe Modified Racing series will make a return visit to Stafford in 2011 with<br \/>\ntwo different 80-lap events.  The first MRS event of the 2011 season will be<br \/>\nJune 24 and the second MRS race will be September 9.<br \/>\nStafford Speedway will also once again host the ISMA Supermodifeds on<br \/>\nTuesday, June 28th as part of the 8th Annual CARQUEST Extreme Tuesday<br \/>\nprogram along with the NEMA Midgets and the Pro-4 Modifieds.  New for the<br \/>\nCARQUEST Extreme Tuesday program will be the addition of the CARQUEST<br \/>\nChampions For Charities race event.<br \/>\nStafford\u2019s Friday night NASCAR Whelen All-American Series programs will once<br \/>\nagain consist of five divisions, the SK Modifieds\u00ae, Late Models, SK Lights,<br \/>\nLimited Late Models, and DARE Stocks.  Headlining the weekly divisions are<br \/>\nthe 8th Annual CARQUEST SK 150 on July 22nd and the 38th Annual Coors Light<br \/>\nSK Modified\u00ae 100 on June 10th and the 17th Annual Late Model 100 on August<br \/>\n19th.<br \/>\nStafford Motor Speedway will illuminate the sky with fireworks three times<br \/>\nduring the 2011 season with the 11th Annual Summer Blast-Off on June 17th,<br \/>\nan Independence Day celebration on July 1st, and an end of summer event on<br \/>\nSeptember 2nd.  For the June 17th Summer Blast-Off program, all children<br \/>\nages 14 &#038; under will be admitted free of charge to the general admission<br \/>\ngrandstands when accompanied by an adult.<br \/>\nThe USHRA Monster Trucks return to Stafford Motor Speedway in 2011 with two<br \/>\nshows on Saturday, July 30th, and one show on Sunday, July 31st.  SMS will<br \/>\nhost four different Connecticut Motorcycle Swap Meets on Sunday, April 3rd,<br \/>\nSunday, June 26th, Sunday, August 14th; and Sunday, October 30th.  Stafford<br \/>\nwill host two Ty-Rods Automotive Swap Meets on Sunday, April 10th and<br \/>\nSunday, October 16th.  Also returning to Stafford Speedway will be the 4th<br \/>\nAnnual 24 Hours of LeMons, a two-day endurance event that will run Saturday,<br \/>\nJuly 23rd and Sunday, July 24th.<br \/>\nStafford Motor Speedway has 2011 season ticket packages available now, which<br \/>\nare good for all NASCAR Race events, as well as the CARQUEST Extreme Tuesday<br \/>\nprogram, but do not include admission for Monster Truck shows, Swap Meets,<br \/>\nor Wild Thing Kart events.<br \/>\nStafford Motor Speedway\u2019s complete 2011 NASCAR schedule is available by<br \/>\nvisiting the SCHEDULE section of SMS Online located at<br \/>\nwww.staffordmotorspeedway.com.  For more information about the 2011 Stafford<br \/>\nMotor Speedway schedule of events, including season ticket applications,<br \/>\ncall the speedway office at (860) 684-2783, or visit the BOX OFFICE section<br \/>\nof SMS Online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAFFORD MOTOR SPEEDWAY RELEASES ITS 2011 NASCAR WHELEN ALL-AMERICAN SERIES EVENT SCHEDULE (Stafford Springs, CT)&#8212;Stafford Motor Speedway has released its 2011 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series event schedule. SMS will host a total of 23 racing events, with the 2011 NASCAR season kicking off with the 40th Annual Tech-Net Spring Sizzler presented by CARQUEST on April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-3775","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\/3775","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=3775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}