{"id":5847,"date":"2011-06-24T22:14:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T02:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2011-06-24T22:14:04","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T02:14:04","slug":"stewart-friesen-randy-cabral-carquest-champions-charities-event-stafford-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/stewart-friesen-randy-cabral-carquest-champions-charities-event-stafford-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"STEWART FRIESEN OUT AND RANDY CABRAL IN FOR CARQUEST CHAMPIONS FOR CHARITIES EVENT AT STAFFORD SPEEDWAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/images\/stafford.jpg\" alt=\"Stafford\" \/><br \/>\n(Stafford Springs, CT)&#8212;With 2010 Race of Champions Dart Dirt Modified<br \/>\nSeries champion and 2010 Syracuse 200 winner Stewart Friesen unable to<br \/>\nattend CARQUEST Champions For Charities due to a scheduling conflict, 2-time<br \/>\nNEMA Midget champion Randy Cabral has stepped in to take his place.  Cabral<br \/>\nwon the NEMA Midget championship in 2008 and 2009 and he is also the<br \/>\ndefending CARQUEST Extreme Tuesday NEMA Midget race champion at Stafford.<br \/>\nWhile Cabral has plenty of Midget car experience, he admits that he is a bit<br \/>\nlacking in experience when it comes to the Senior Outlaw Kart that he will<br \/>\nbe driving in the Inaugural CARQUEST Champions For Charities event.<br \/>\n\u201cI have very limited experience in a go kart,\u201d said Cabral.  \u201cI\u2019ve played<br \/>\naround a few times in a kart on a road course, but I think the guys I\u2019ll be<br \/>\nracing against have a lot more kart experience than me.  I\u2019m hoping that I\u2019<br \/>\nll be able to pick it up pretty quickly, it\u2019s a stacked field that I\u2019ll be<br \/>\nracing against, that\u2019s for sure.  I have a couple of crew guys that race<br \/>\nkarts, so hopefully they can give me a couple of pointers.\u201d<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nCabral will be racing to represent The Spalding Foundation, which provides<br \/>\nmonetary support for drivers, crewmen, and racing officials who have<br \/>\nsustained injuries in a race related accident at a NASCAR, dirt or local<br \/>\nlicensed track in New York State and around the United States.  Since its<br \/>\nformation in 1989, the Spalding Foundation has donated over $100,000 to more<br \/>\nthan 130 individuals and families.<\/p>\n<p>The starting field for the CARQUEST Champions For Charities event will be<br \/>\nset by how much money each driver raises for their selected charity and<br \/>\nCabral is already working on increasing his total for a better starting<br \/>\nspot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re already working on donations, so hopefully we can have some folks<br \/>\ncome through for us and we can move up the starting grid for the race,\u201d said<br \/>\nCabral.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the CARQUEST Champions for Charities event, Cabral will be<br \/>\nracing the #47 Bertrand Motorsports entry in the NEMA Midget feature.<br \/>\nCabral won the CARQUEST Extreme Tuesday NEMA event last season and he is<br \/>\nlooking forward to making another trip into CARQUEST Victory Lane this year.<br \/>\n\u201cThe season hasn\u2019t been too bad for us so far, but it could be better,\u201d said<br \/>\nCabral.  \u201cWe\u2019ve only ran 2 races so far and we had a pretty wild ride our<br \/>\nlast race out.  There was a red flag and we had a short on a battery wire<br \/>\nand the car caught fire.  I was able to get pushed to the pits where the<br \/>\ncrew worked on the car and got me back out on track and we came back up<br \/>\nthrough the field to finish 6th.  I have a great crew behind me, if there\u2019s<br \/>\na way to get into victory lane, they\u2019ll find it for me.  We always seem to<br \/>\nrun well when we come to Stafford and we finally won at Stafford last year.<br \/>\nHopefully we can back last year\u2019s win up with another win this year and put<br \/>\non a good show for the fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CARQUEST Extreme Tuesday will take place on June 28, 2011 and will also<br \/>\nfeature the ISMA Super Modifieds, NEMA Midgets, and Pro-4 Modifieds as well<br \/>\nas the Senior Outlaw Karts.  Tickets for CARQUEST Extreme Tuesday are on<br \/>\nsale now at the Speedway Box Office and are priced at $30.00 for adult<br \/>\ngeneral admission tickets, $5.00 for children ages 6-14, and children ages 5<br \/>\nand under are admitted free of charge when accompanied by an adult.<br \/>\nReserved seating is priced at $32.00 for all ages. As always, Stafford Motor<br \/>\nSpeedway offers free parking with overnight parking available.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, or to order tickets to the 8th Annual CARQUEST Extreme<br \/>\nTuesday event, contact the Stafford Motor Speedway track office at<br \/>\n860-684-2783 or visit us on the web at www.staffordspeedway.com<br \/>\n<http: \/\/www.staffordspeedway.com>.<\/http:><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Stafford Springs, CT)&#8212;With 2010 Race of Champions Dart Dirt Modified Series champion and 2010 Syracuse 200 winner Stewart Friesen unable to attend CARQUEST Champions For Charities due to a scheduling conflict, 2-time NEMA Midget champion Randy Cabral has stepped in to take his place. 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