(Stafford Springs, CT)—New for the 2025 season at Stafford Motor Speedway, the track will welcome Schultz Engineered Products to its contingency program. Schultz’s participation in the contingency program will benefit both the SK Modified® and SK Light divisions at Stafford, with Schultz providing a $100 bonus to each second place finisher this season in both divisions.
(Stafford Springs, CT) — For the 10th consecutive season, Maybury Material Handling of East Longmeadow, MA, will be a first-place contingency program partner at Stafford Motor Speedway. Maybury will present a weekly bonus of $150 to each SK Modified® winner and a $150 bonus to each SK Light feature winner during the 2025 season. With both the SK Modified® and SK Light divisions each having 22 races on the schedule, Maybury will contribute a total of $6,600, with each division having a winning driver’s pool of $3,300. Maybury Material Handling will also serve as the title sponsor of the August 29 Back to SKool Night Kids Night.
(Stafford Springs, CT)—After a banner 2024 season that saw him tie the single season SK Light record of 10 wins in a single season at Stafford Speedway, Ellington, CT native Tyler Chapman will make the move up the open wheel ladder to Stafford’s premier SK Modified® division in 2025 and challenge for NAPA Rookie of the Year honors.
(Stafford Springs, CT)—Stafford Speedway hosted its penultimate Weekly Racing event of the 2024 season on Friday, Sept. 27. Taking down feature wins on the night were Jon Puleo in the SK Modified® feature, Adam Gray in the Late Model feature, Tyler Chapman in the SK Light feature, Rich Hammann in the Limited Late Model feature, and Travis Hydar in the Street Stock feature. Champan’s SK Light victory, his ninth of the season, enabled him to clinch the 2024 SK Light track championship.
In the 40-lap SK Modified® feature, Anthony Flannery led the field to green and he took the early lead but the field was only able to complete one lap before the caution flew for Ethan Durocher, who came to a stop on the frontstretch grass with damage to his right front suspension. (more…)
(Stafford Springs, CT)—When Stafford Speedway created the SK Light division prior to the start of the 2006 season, the intent of the division was to provide not only a less expensive open wheel alternative to the track’s premier SK Modified® division, but to serve as a stepping stone to the premier division. Fast forward 18 years and one look at the 2024 SK Modified® standings will show that the stepping stone vision has been realized and then some. The top-5 drivers in the 2024 standings are all SK Light graduates, and going even further, 8 of the top-10 drivers in the standings got their open wheel starts in the SK Light division.
(Stafford Springs, CT)—Stafford Speedway hosted Maybury Back to SKool Kids night with twin SK Light feature events on Friday, Aug. 30th. The big winners of the night were Nickolas Hovey and Chris Matthews, who split the SK Light features between themselves with Hovey notching his third win of the season and Matthews his second. Other feature winners were Michael Christopher, Jr. in the SK Modified® feature, Adam Gray in the Late Model feature, Matt Winter, II, and Travis Hydar. As part of Maybury Kids Night, there were two kids big wheel races and they were won by 6 year old Bentley Walmsley of Franklin and 5 year old Cole Frazier of Agawam, MA.
In the 40-lap SK Modified® feature, Dylan Kopec took the early lead while behind him Andrew Molleur moved into second, Marcello Rufrano third, Tyler Hines fourth, and Jon Puleo fifth. Steven Chapman got out of shape but gathered his car up and rejoined at the rear of the field as the race stayed green. (more…)
(Stafford Springs, CT)—With Stafford Speedway’s SK Light division partaking in double features this Friday night, Aug. 30th as part of Maybury Back to SKool Kids Night, Ron Midford, Jr. will be in search of his first SK Light victory with his #76 Constantine Paving and Sealing car. Midford is in the midst of his third full season of SK Light competition after winning 30+ features and 2 championships in the Senior Champs division of Wild Thing Karts and is looking to go one position higher after posting a career best finish of second place in the season opening NAPA Spring Sizzler® event. (more…)
Holland, N.Y. – (August 19, 2024) – The Race of Champions “Family of Series” is ready to take on one of it’s biggest night’s of the season with the running of the “Busch Light 100 presented by Try-It Distributing” at Holland (NY) Speedway this coming Saturday, August 24. The event will conclude the stock car racing events at Holland for the 2024 season.
Friday Night Racing is Back! Double SK Light Modified Races this Friday At Stafford Speedway
(Stafford Springs, CT)—Coming into the 2023 season at Stafford Speedway, Alexander Pearl and the #7 Darling Auto Parts team were riding a 5-season streak of winning at least one race per season, dating back to Pearl’s rookie season of 2018. Although Pearl notched three second place finishes last season, he ended up winless for the first time in his SK Light career. With the 2024 season set to kick off at the end of April, Pearl has his sights set on starting a new winning streak.
