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04/12/2013 |
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CARQUEST
CHAMPIONS FOR CHARITIES DRIVER SPOTLIGHT:
RON YUHAS JR. |
 Stafford
Motor Speedway has lined up an impressive field of
current and former open wheel champions for its 3rd
Annual CARQUEST Champions For Charities Event, which
will take place on Friday, June 28th this season.
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 spotlight falls on
Ron Yuhas, Jr., the 2009 Waterford Speedbowl SK
Modified® Champion, who will be racing to help
support The Connecticut Children's Medical Center.
While CARQUEST Champions For Charities is in its
third year of fundraising for charity, this is
Yuhas' first time as a member of the Champions for
Charities field. Yuhas will use the CARQUEST Belts &
Hose Pit Party during the CARQUEST Tech-Net Spring
Sizzler Weekend to kick off his fundraising efforts
for The CT Children's Medical Center with the theme
'What would you do for a Klondike bar?'
"Last year during our annual team holiday party, we
saw that Connecticut Children's was looking for
donations," said Yuhas. "We thought that doing a toy
drive would be a great thing for us to do. We made a
donation directly from that holiday party and really
enjoyed working with the staff at CCMC during that
time. The CARQUEST Champions For Charities helps
give us another opportunity to carry our involvement
with them even further as part of our 64 Acts Of
Kindness Race It Forward program that benefits both
Connecticut Children's and the Connecticut Special
Olympics."
"I think being involved with this race will really
help us get the word out about Connecticut
Children's and we're planning on doing a toy drive
at the CARQUEST Belts and Hose Pit Party. Thanks to
NASCAR, Unilever Ice Cream, and Stafford, the first
100 people who make a monetary or toy donation will
get a free Klondike bar. We're also going to bring a
distribution box with us to all of the Whelen
Modified Tour events leading up to the Champions For
Charities race and we're going to continue to build
awareness through my website and our Facebook page.
We hope we can be one of the leading fundraisers
this year."
The CARQUEST Champions For Charities race will bring
Yuhas back to his racing roots as he will sit behind
the wheel of a Wild Thing Senior Outlaw Kart for the
very first time.
"I grew up racing quarter midgets and I think
they're pretty similar to the karts," said Yuhas.
"That was a long time ago though, I'm not sure if
I'll remember how to drive them. This is a whole new
venture for us, but we're definitely coming to win
the race. We have to represent Connecticut
Children's well and we certainly can't let all the
kids down. But when I was looking at the driver
roster for this race, I'm sure that every driver on
that list wants to win the race just as bad as we
do."
In addition to racing in the CARQUEST Champions For
Charities duties, Yuhas will be spending the 2013
season behind the wheel of the #64 Mike Murphy owned
Hughes Motors / Complete Construction Chevrolet.
Last season at Stafford, Yuhas finished 7th in the
CARQUEST Tech-Net Spring Sizzler and had a best
qualifying effort of fourth in the August CARQUEST
150. Yuhas will look to better those numbers at
Stafford this year with the addition of Curt Chase
to the team as his new crew chief.
"We're going into the year with a lot of
confidence," said Yuhas. "Curt Chase is joining the
team as our new crew chief and hopefully we can come
out of the box strong and have a real good year.
Curt offers us years of knowledge that we simply
lack and he has his own mindset that will bring us
some new and different ideas for our car. I talked
with Curt years back when I was running my own car
and things worked out where he was available and he
came on board with us this season. We're hoping to
have a big year and Curt certainly has a lot of
knowledge with all his experience in modified
racing."
Connecticut Children's Medical Center is a
nationally recognized, 187-bed not-for-profit
children's hospital serving as the primary teaching
hospital for the Department of Pediatrics at the
University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Named
among the best in the nation for several of its
pediatric specialties in the annual U.S. News &
World Report "Best Children's Hospitals" rankings,
Connecticut Children's is the only free-standing
children's hospital in Connecticut that offers
comprehensive, world-class health care to children.
Our pediatric services are available at Connecticut
Children's Medical Center in Hartford and at Saint
Mary's Hospital in Waterbury, with neonatal
intensive care units at Hartford Hospital and the
University of Connecticut Health Center, along with
five specialty care centers and 10 other locations
across the state. Connecticut Children's has a
medical staff of nearly 1,100 practicing in more
than 30 specialties.
For more information about Connecticut Children's,
visit
www.connecticutchildrens.org or connect
online at
www.facebook.com/connecticutchildrens or
www.twitter.com/ctchildrens.
The starting lineups for the CARQUEST Champions For
Charities 15-lap feature will be determined by how
much money each driver raises for their selected
charity. The starting grid will be set with the
drivers who have raised the most money starting up
front. Fans are encouraged to get involved in the
event by donating to their favorite driver or
favorite charity. To make a donation to Connecticut
Children's Medical Center on behalf of Ron Yuhas,
Jr., and for more information on the event, please
refer to the CARQUEST Champions for Charities
donation page located at www.staffordspeedway.com.
Stay tuned to www.staffordspeedway.com for more
driver spotlights and exciting information regarding
the CARQUEST Champions for Charities event, which
will take place on Friday, June 28.
For more information, 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: April
12, 2013 |
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