$2,600 Available to Winner of Stafford’s 38th Annual Coors Light SK Modified® 100 on Friday, June 10th
Stafford Springs, CT — With the 38th Annual Coors Light SK Modified® 100 on tap this Friday night at Stafford Motor Speedway, the race winner is guaranteed to walk away with a winner’s check for $2,300. If the winning car has the proper contingency decals on their car, the winner’s check could be worth as much as $2,600.
There is a grand total of nearly $13,000 on the line for the 28 SK Modified® competitors who will take the green flag in the extra distance classic. The race carries a total purse of $12,310 with $550 in available contingency money to push the total posted awards for the 38th Annual Coors Light SK Modified® 100 to $12,860.
Thanks to contingency partners CARQUEST Auto Parts and Trantolo and Trantolo, there is an additional $300 available to the race winner. Additional contingency awards of $125 will be paid by Call Before You Dig to the second place finisher, and New England Racing Fuel, Sunoco Brand will pay a $50 product bonus to the third place finisher if they have a Sunoco sticker on their car and use Sunoco racing fuel in their car. New England Racing Fuel will also provide a $25 product bonus to the top-3 finishing cars that use the Stafford Motor Speedway SK Modified® Spec Engine.
The 2009 and 2010 Coors Light SK Modified® 100 events were two of the wildest races in recent memory with 2-time SK Modified® champion Keith Rocco dueling with 7-time track champion Ted Christopher in a battle that saw the two drivers swap the lead between themselves almost at will. Between laps 16 and 68 of last year’s extra distance classic, Rocco and Christopher swapped the lead between themselves 15 times. The 2009 edition of the race saw them swap the lead seven times between themselves over the final 35 laps of the race.
Rocco has gotten the better of those battles as he is the two-time defending champion of the Coors Light SK Modified® 100. Both Rocco and Christopher have visited CARQUEST Victory Lane twice thusfar during the 2011 season, and they will be looking to pick up their third win in the second most lucrative SK Modified® event of the 2011 season.
Rocco and Christopher won’t be the only favorites to take the checkered flag in the Coors Light 100. Other SK Modified® drivers who have won extra distance events at Stafford who will be in the starting lineup next Friday night include Eric Berndt, Todd Owen, Woody Pitkat, and Frank Ruocco. Ruocco has become an extra distance master at Stafford, winning three out of the last four CARQUEST SK 150 events and with a best finish of second thusfar in 2011, he will be hungry to notch up his first win of the season.
And while current SK Modified® points leader Ryan Preece has yet to win an extra distance event at Stafford, he finished second to Ruocco in last year’s CARQUEST SK 150 and he has plenty of extra distance experience in Whelen Modified Tour events at Stafford.
Tickets for the 38th Annual Coors Light SK Modified® 100 are on sale now at the Speedway Box Office. Tickets are priced at $18.00 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 $20.00 for all ages. As always, Stafford Motor Speedway offers free parking with overnight parking available.
For more information on the 37th Annual Coors Light SK Modified® 100, or to order tickets, contact the Stafford Motor Speedway track office at 860-684-2783 or visit us on the web at www.staffordspeedway.com.
Sources: Scott Running/Stafford Motor Speedway PR