Stafford Motor Speedway Explained

Stafford Motor Speedway is a 1/2 mile paved oval located in Stafford Springs, Connecticut. Stafford Speedway holds weekly racing every Friday night May through September. This track is known as the home of the SK Modifieds and drivers such as Ryan Preece and Ted Christopher. The track hosts weekly events throughout the season previously including 3 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour events yearly. Stafford Motor Speedway is the track that had hosted the second most ever races in the modern era of the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour with 135 races from 1985 to 2021.

The speedway also had hosted 5 NASCAR North Tour events from 1979 until 1985 and 30 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East races, between 1987 and 2016.

Stafford Motor Speedway was the site of the first ever Superstar Racing Experience event on June 12, 2021. The main event was won by track regular Doug Coby.

In December 2020, the track announced that it would end its 60-year affiliation with NASCAR, "due to a conflict regarding ownership of streaming and broadcast rights of weekly racing events".[1] Stafford began live streaming on FloRacing in 2021.[2]

History

Originally known as the Stafford Springs Agricultural Park,[3] the facility was used as a half-mile horse racing facility up to the end of World War II when it switched to automobile racing.[4] The facility became a NASCAR track in 1959 as a dirt track, under the ownership of Rockville auto dealer Mal Barlow, Barlow paved the track in 1967. It was purchased by the Arute brothers, Chuck and Jack Arute in 1970. Jack's son Mark Arute continues to own and manage the track.[5]

Notable drivers

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Running . Scott . Stafford Speedway Leaving NASCAR Weekly Racing Series in 2021; Track to Race Independently; Modified Tour Events Unaffected for 2020 season . Stafford Motor Speedway . 29 March 2021 . 21 December 2020.
  2. Opening Night. Stafford Motor Speedway . . April 24, 2021 . 13:54 .
  3. Web site: Wollschlager . Mike . Ofgang . Erik . Yuravich . Albie . Summer Fun 2018: Outdoor Family Entertainment . Connecticut Magazine . 10 July 2019 . 18 May 2018.
  4. Web site: Courchesne . Shawn . STAFFORD MOTOR SPEEDWAY . Hartford Courant . 10 July 2019 . 25 April 2003.
  5. Web site: Whelen Modified Tour Stat Advance: Stafford - NASCAR Home Tracks.
  6. Web site: Stafford Motor Speedway.
  7. Web site: Geoff Bodine – a photo on Flickriver.
  8. Web site: New England Antique Racers . 2010-06-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110209094636/http://www.near1.com/HALL-OF-FAME/index.htm . 2011-02-09 .
  9. Web site: SMS Online: A Look Back in Time at the 1974 Stafford Speedway Season . 2013-01-14 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110108040150/http://staffordspeedway.com/Pages/News/40-YEAR-1974.htm . 2011-01-08 .
  10. Web site: August 6: Dale Earnhardt Smokes the Competition in Stafford . Today in Connecticut History . 10 July 2019 . 6 August 2018.
  11. Bourcier, Bones. RICHIE!: The Fast Life and Times of NASCAR's Greatest Modified Driver (1st ed., 2004). Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA: Coastal 181. .
  12. Web site: Driver Jimmy Spencer's NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Results at Stafford Motor Speedway – Racing-Reference.info.

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