{"id":8391,"date":"2011-10-30T20:26:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T00:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2011-10-30T20:26:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T00:26:57","slug":"stafford-speedway-contingency-program-pays-out-28300-in-2011-contingency-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/stafford-speedway-contingency-program-pays-out-28300-in-2011-contingency-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"STAFFORD SPEEDWAY CONTINGENCY PROGRAM PAYS OUT $28,300 IN 2011 CONTINGENCY AWARDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Stafford Springs, CT)&#8212;During the 2011 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series<br \/>\nseason at Stafford Motor Speedway, drivers took home an extra $28,000 in<br \/>\ncontingency bonuses.  Of that total, $25,800 came from Stafford Motor<br \/>\nSpeedway\u2019s Contingency Program, while Reliable Welding and Speed\u2019s<br \/>\nsponsorship of the track\u2019s Rookie of the Year Program totaled another $2,200<br \/>\nand Rogers Towing contributed $300.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the SK Modified\u00ae division, CARQUEST Auto Parts, Trantolo &#038; Trantolo Law<br \/>\nFirm, Call Before You Dig, and New England Racing Fuel contributed a grand<br \/>\ntotal of $10,025.  In the Late Model division, CARQUEST Auto Parts and New<br \/>\nEngland Racing Fuel provided a grand total of $4,750.  In the SK Light<br \/>\ndivision, The Davidson Company in Memory of Dave Rowe and New England Racing<br \/>\nFuel contributed a grand total of $4,275.  The SK Light division also<br \/>\nwelcomed a new contingency sponsor in Gunsmoke Stables with the Gunsmoke<br \/>\nStables Front Runner Challenge, which was worth another $2,000 to SK Light<br \/>\ndrivers.  In the Limited Late Model division, CARQUEST Auto Parts and New<br \/>\nEngland Racing Fuel contributed a grand total of $3,325 for competitors, and<br \/>\nNew England Racing Fuel contributed $1,425 to DARE Stock competitors.<br \/>\nStafford\u2019s two largest contributors to the Contingency Program this season<br \/>\nwere CARQUEST Auto Parts and New England Racing Fuel with their Sunoco<br \/>\nBrand.  CARQUEST Auto Parts paid out an additional $6,975 to drivers in the<br \/>\nSK Modified\u00ae, Late Model, and Limited Late Model divisions, while New<br \/>\nEngland Racing Fuel supported all five of Stafford\u2019s NASCAR Whelen<br \/>\nAll-American Series racing divisions with over $9,000 in certificates that<br \/>\nwere redeemable at the track for Sunoco Race Fuel.<br \/>\nAdditonal contingency awards were paid out by Reliable Welding and Speed,<br \/>\nwho contributed $2,200 to the Stafford Motor Speedway Rookie of the Year<br \/>\nprogram.  Heather DesRochers will receive a $700 bonus as the SK Modified<br \/>\nRookie of the Year, while Peter Thickett, Cody Gneiting, and D.J. Burnham<br \/>\nwill each receive $500 bonuses as the Late Model, SK Light Modified, and<br \/>\nLimited Late Model Rookies of the Year.  Reliable Welding and Speed\u2019s<br \/>\nsponsorship pushes the total 2011 Stafford contingency award bonuses paid to<br \/>\n$28,000 for the 2011 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series season.<br \/>\nRogers Towing was another contributor to the Stafford Contingency Program,<br \/>\noffering bonuses of $100 and $50 to the first and second place SK Modified\u00ae<br \/>\nfeature finishers in the season opening CARQUEST Tech-Net Spring Sizzler as<br \/>\nwell as the CARQUEST Fall Final Weekend for a total of $300.<br \/>\nStafford Motor Speedway is currently looking for partners to join the SMS<br \/>\nContingency Program for the 2012 season.  If you would like to become a<br \/>\nContingency Program Partner at Stafford Speedway, please contact the<br \/>\nSpeedway Office at 860-684-2783.<br \/>\nFor more information about the Stafford Motor Speedway, or its Contingency<br \/>\nProgarm, contact the track office at 860-684-2783, or visit the Contingency<br \/>\nProgram portion of Stafford\u2019s Marketing Kit on the web at<br \/>\nwww.staffordspeedway.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Stafford Springs, CT)&#8212;During the 2011 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series season at Stafford Motor Speedway, drivers took home an extra $28,000 in contingency bonuses. Of that total, $25,800 came from Stafford Motor Speedway\u2019s Contingency Program, while Reliable Welding and Speed\u2019s sponsorship of the track\u2019s Rookie of the Year Program totaled another $2,200 and Rogers Towing contributed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[196,126,197],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-8391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-new-england","category-stafford-connecticut","tag-stafford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391","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=8391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}