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Stafford Motor Speedway has
announced that it will once again partner with the very
best in tires and wheels to bring racing fans the 12th Annual
Town Fair Tire Summer Blast-Off on Friday, June 15th. The
2012 season will mark the 14th consecutive season that Town
Fair Tire has been partnered with Stafford Motor Speedway's
race program.
Former Wild Thing Kart driver
Tyler Hines is the newest addition to the ever growing SK
Light rookie class at Stafford Speedway for the 2012 NASCAR
Whelen All-American Series season. Hines will take the reins
of the #19 Gunsmoke Stables Ford that was driven the past
several seasons by Steve Greer for his rookie season in
the SK Light division. It was thanks to an association with
the Greer family and a phone call from Steve Greer that
will see Hines living his dream during the 2012 season.
When the green flag is unfurled
for the 41st Annual CARQUEST Tech-Net Spring Sizzler at
Stafford Speedway on April 28 & April 29, it will mark the
beginning of the 27th consecutive season that CARQUEST Auto
Parts and Stafford have been partners in racing. CARQUEST
Auto Parts is practically synonymous with Stafford Speedway
and the relationship between the two is one of the longest
running associations anywhere in motorsports.
Richie Pallai, Jr. will return
to competition in Stafford Motor Speedway's premier SK Modified®
division, racing a partial schedule in a car owned by 7-time
Stafford SK Modified® champion Ted Christopher.
Joey Logano, the NASCAR Sprint
Cup driver who began his racing career at Silver City Quarter
Midget Club, will be at On Track Karting in Wallingford
on Sunday, January 29 to help raise money for improvements
to the Silver City facility that has not seen many structural
upgrades since Logano started racing there in 1996.
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For the 2012 season at Stafford
Motor Speedway, the paddock area will have a new look as
SPAFCO Race Chassis will become the new parts vendor, taking
over a position that Reliable Welding and Speed had occupied
for the past 9 seasons.
Stafford Speedway's SK Modified®
division will welcome another new member for the 2012 season
as Danny Cates will join the division. Cates has several
top-5 points finishes in the modified division at Thompson
Speedway, finishing as high in the points standings as second.
Cates came to Stafford for the 2011 CARQUEST Fall Final
in preparation for a full season of SK Modified® racing
in 2012, where he intends to run for Rookie of the Year
honors.
Peter Portante, who is the
defending Allison Legacy Series North champion and has more
wins in the Wild Thing Kart Series than any other driver,
will become the newest member of the Late Model rookie class
for the 2012 season at Stafford Motor Speedway.
The 2011 season gave fans
across New England a rock-solid view of the commitment level
Keith Rocco places on his racing. Pushing the asphalt "win-bar"
higher than any racer since Richie Evans or Geoff Bodine,
the Wallingford, Connecticut frontrunner drove to his eighth
career Track Championship among the three Connecticut tracks
(Stafford, Thompson, Waterford) after winning more races
in 2011 than any single driver in the United States.
Now, with his thirty-two
2011 victories and the holidays tucked neatly in the past,
Keith Rocco has returned to the surroundings where every
winning tally began.
Click
the play button on the image below for a recap of the Oct.1-Oct.
2 CARQUEST Fall Final Weekend feature events. Call the Speedway
Office at 860-684-2783 or CLICK
HERE to order a DVD copy of any feature event from the
2011 season.
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