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02/08/2012 |
STAFFORD
MOTOR SPEEDWAY CARQUEST
CHAMPIONS FOR CHARITIES DRIVER SPOTLIGHT:
RUSS WOOD |
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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 will be racing for and this week’s CARQUEST
Champions For Charities spotlights falls on 8-time
ISMA Supermodified champion Russ Wood, who will be
racing to support Racing Against Cancer™.
“My relationship with Racing Against Cancer™ goes
back to 6 or 7 years ago when my kids were racing
karts at Sugar Hill,” said Wood. “We got started
with Racing Against Cancer™ back then and we’ve been
involved with them in a few things since then. My
wife was the chairperson for a Relay for Life in our
hometown, and she will be doing that again this
year. We’re looking forward to raising money for
cancer research and hopefully we can surpass our
total that we raised last year.”
A big part of Wood’s fundraising efforts will be at
Stafford Motor Speedway the day of the CARQUEST
Champions For Charities event. The speedway will
host A Prelude to CARQUEST Super Saturday; Foot
Power in the A.M. and Horse Power in the P.M., a
Racing Against Cancer™ Track Walk that will run from
9:30-11:30am on Saturday, June 30 prior to the
feature events.
All funds raised from the track walk will be
credited towards Wood’s fundraising total for the
CARQUEST Champions For Charities event. Race fans
can register for the track walk by picking up a
brochure at the Stafford booth during the Frank
Maratta Auto Show at the CT Convention Center from
March 9-11, the Stafford Motor Speedway track
office, at the Racing Against Cancer™ booth set up
on the midway during the CARQUEST Tech-Net Spring
Sizzler Weekend on April 27-29, or online at
www.racingagainstcancer.org. The minimum
donation required is $25 and fans can also donate
online through the RAC website if they cannot attend
the track walk. Last year’s Racing Against Cancer™
track walk raised over $5,700 and the more money
that Wood raises this year will start him closer to
the front of the field for the 15-lap Champions For
Charities feature event. Participants who register
in advance for the Racing Against Cancer™ Track Walk
will be able to receive a $5 discount on Adult
General Admission tickets for the CARQUEST Super
Saturday feature events.
“Hopefully we’ll be able to do a little better this
year than we did last year,” said Wood. “We did
pretty well, but we want to do better. The racing
last year was pretty intense and all the karts
seemed like they were pretty equal. Maybe I need to
bring a bigger motor; we’ll have to talk with Mark [Arute]
to see if maybe we can bring a bigger motor with us
for the race this year.”
In addition to his CARQUEST Champions For Charities
duties, Wood will be behind the wheel of his
familiar #29 for the 50-lap ISMA Supermodifed event
and will be looking to drive into CARQUEST Victory
Lane for the second time at Stafford. Wood was the
ISMA Supermodified feature winner in 2005, but he
knows that he and the rest of the ISMA Supermodified
field will have to beat Chris Perley, who has won 5
of the previous 8 CARQUEST Super Saturday events at
Stafford. Wood set an ISMA record last season with
his 8th drivers championship, breaking a tie that he
had held with Perley for the most ISMA
championships.
“Last year was great, it was a little different not
winning the owner’s championship, but it was a great
year for us, 8 is a pretty good mark,” said Wood. “I
would have like to have won the owner’s championship
because it’s not just me that won the driver’s
championship, I had a great team behind me and they
deserved to be recognized for their efforts. Right
now we’re still refining our car, but we’re looking
to have a great year. Although when we come to
Stafford I think we’ll all be chasing the 11 [Perley].
They have the car, the motor, and they seem to have
Stafford figured out pretty well. We’ll give it our
best shot and hope we land in victory lane.”
Racing Against Cancer™ is a Federally Recognized
501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the
raising of funds for cancer research, patient
services, youth tobacco educational programs, and
awareness. Racing Against Cancer™ was founded in
1996 and the program has generated over $700,000 for
the fight against cancer. For more information,
please visit
www.RacingAgainstCancer.org.
CARQUEST Extreme Tuesday will take place on
Saturday, June 30, 2012 and will feature the ISMA
Super Modifieds, NEMA Midgets, and Pro-4 Modifieds
in addition to the Senior Outlaw Wild Thing Karts.
Tickets for CARQUEST Extreme Tuesday are on sale now
at the Speedway Box Office and are priced at $33.00
for adult general admission tickets, $5.00 for
children ages 6-14, and children ages 5 and under
are admitted free of charge when accompanied by an
adult. Reserved seating is priced at $35.00 for all
ages. All ticket prices include 10% CT Admission
Tax. As always, Stafford Motor Speedway offers free
parking with overnight parking available.
For more information, or to order tickets to the 9th
Annual CARQUEST Extreme
Tuesday event, contact the Stafford Motor Speedway
track office at
860-684-2783 or visit us on the web at
www.staffordspeedway.com. |
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Source: Scott Running / Stafford Motor Speedway
Posted: February
8, 2012 |
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