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(Stafford Springs, CT)—Stafford Motor Speedway has again lined up an
\nimpressive field of current and former open wheel champions for its CARQUEST
\nChampions For Charities Event as part of CARQUEST Super Saturday on June
\n30th. During the coming weeks, SMS will offer a profile on each of its
\nchampionship winning drivers and the charity they will be racing for and
\nthis week\u2019s CARQUEST Champions For Charities spotlights falls on 8-time ISMA
\nSupermodified champion Russ Wood, who will be racing to support Racing
\nAgainst Cancer\u2122.
\n
\n\u201cMy relationship with Racing Against Cancer\u2122 goes back to 6 or 7 years ago
\nwhen my kids were racing karts at Sugar Hill,\u201d said Wood. \u201cWe got started
\nwith Racing Against Cancer\u2122 back then and we\u2019ve been involved with them in a
\nfew things since then. My wife was the chairperson for a Relay for Life in
\nour hometown, and she will be doing that again this year. We\u2019re looking
\nforward to raising money for cancer research and hopefully we can surpass
\nour total that we raised last year.\u201d<\/p>\n
A big part of Wood\u2019s fundraising efforts will be at Stafford Motor Speedway
\nthe day of the CARQUEST Champions For Charities event. The speedway will
\nhost A Prelude to CARQUEST Super Saturday; Foot Power in the A.M. and Horse
\nPower in the P.M., a Racing Against Cancer\u2122 Track Walk that will run from
\n9:30-11:30am on Saturday, June 30 prior to the feature events.<\/p>\n
All funds raised from the track walk will be credited towards Wood\u2019s \u201cHopefully we\u2019ll be able to do a little better this year than we did last In addition to his CARQUEST Champions For Charities duties, Wood will be \u201cLast year was great, it was a little different not winning the owner\u2019s Racing Against Cancer\u2122 is a Federally Recognized 501(c)(3) non-profit CARQUEST Extreme Tuesday will take place on Saturday, June 30, 2012 and will (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 […]<\/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":[196,126,197],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-8972","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\/8972","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=8972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nfundraising total for the CARQUEST Champions For Charities event. Race fans
\ncan register for the track walk by picking up a brochure at the Stafford
\nbooth during the Frank Maratta Auto Show at the CT Convention Center from
\nMarch 9-11, the Stafford Motor Speedway track office, at the Racing Against
\nCancer\u2122 booth set up on the midway during the CARQUEST Tech-Net Spring
\nSizzler Weekend on April 27-29, or online at www.racingagainstcancer.org
\n
\nand fans can also donate online through the RAC website if they cannot
\nattend the track walk. Last year\u2019s Racing Against Cancer\u2122 track walk raised
\nover $5,700 and the more money that Wood raises this year will start him
\ncloser to the front of the field for the 15-lap Champions For Charities
\nfeature event. Participants who register in advance for the Racing Against
\nCancer\u2122 Track Walk will be able to receive a $5 discount on Adult General
\nAdmission tickets for the CARQUEST Super Saturday feature events.<\/p>\n
\nyear,\u201d said Wood. \u201cWe did pretty well, but we want to do better. The
\nracing last year was pretty intense and all the karts seemed like they were
\npretty equal. Maybe I need to bring a bigger motor; we\u2019ll have to talk with
\nMark [Arute] to see if maybe we can bring a bigger motor with us for the
\nrace this year.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nbehind the wheel of his familiar #29 for the 50-lap ISMA Supermodifed event
\nand will be looking to drive into CARQUEST Victory Lane for the second time
\nat Stafford. Wood was the ISMA Supermodified feature winner in 2005, but he
\nknows that he and the rest of the ISMA Supermodified field will have to beat
\nChris Perley, who has won 5 of the previous 8 CARQUEST Super Saturday events
\nat Stafford. Wood set an ISMA record last season with his 8th drivers
\nchampionship, breaking a tie that he had held with Perley for the most ISMA
\nchampionships.<\/p>\n
\nchampionship, but it was a great year for us, 8 is a pretty good mark,\u201d said
\nWood. \u201cI would have like to have won the owner\u2019s championship because it\u2019s
\nnot just me that won the driver\u2019s championship, I had a great team behind me
\nand they deserved to be recognized for their efforts. Right now we\u2019re still
\nrefining our car, but we\u2019re looking to have a great year. Although when we
\ncome to Stafford I think we\u2019ll all be chasing the 11 [Perley]. They have
\nthe car, the motor, and they seem to have Stafford figured out pretty well.
\nWe\u2019ll give it our best shot and hope we land in victory lane.\u201d<\/p>\n
\norganization dedicated to the raising of funds for cancer research, patient
\nservices, youth tobacco educational programs, and awareness. Racing Against
\nCancer\u2122 was founded in 1996 and the program has generated over $700,000 for
\nthe fight against cancer. For more information, please visit
\nwww.RacingAgainstCancer.org.<\/p>\n
\nfeature the ISMA Super Modifieds, NEMA Midgets, and Pro-4 Modifieds in
\naddition to the Senior Outlaw Wild Thing Karts. Tickets for CARQUEST
\nExtreme Tuesday are on sale now at the Speedway Box Office and are priced at
\n$33.00 for adult general admission tickets, $5.00 for children ages 6-14,
\nand children ages 5 and under are admitted free of charge when accompanied
\nby an adult. Reserved seating is priced at $35.00 for all ages. All ticket
\nprices include 10% CT Admission Tax. As always, Stafford Motor Speedway
\noffers free parking with overnight parking available.<\/http:><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"