NASCAR Legend Bobby Allison to be Honored at Stafford Speedway’s CARQUEST Fall Final Weekend
Stafford Springs, CT — As part of a season-long celebration of 60 years of Modified champions, NASCAR legend Bobby Allison will be honored prior to the running of the CARQUEST Fall Final 150 on September 28th at Stafford Motor Speedway. Allison made his mark in racing driving on the Sprint Cup Series, but he began his racing career at the Modified level and won several championships there before moving up to Sprint Cup Series competition.
Allison won the 1962 and 1963 Modified Special Division championships and was the National Modified champion in 1964. From there, he moved into what was then known as Grand National Racing. Allison scored his first career victory at Oxford Plains Speedway on July 12, 1966. Allison would go on to win a grand total of 84 Sprint Cup Series races, tying him with Darrell Waltrip for third place on the all-time Sprint Cup Series Winners list.
Allison won the 1983 Sprint Cup title and was five-times a runner-up in the Sprint Cup Series points standings. Allison is a three-time Daytona 500 winner (1978, 1982, 1988) and a 6-time Sprint Cup Series Most Popular Driver. Allison has over 600 short track feature victories to his credit, an IROC championship, and he is a two-time Driver of the Year Award recipient. Allison was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1993.
Stafford Motor Speedway will close out its 2008 NASCAR Racing season with the 36th Annual CARQUEST Fall Final Weekend, a bonanza race weekend that will feature 445-laps of racing with a NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour and Camping World Series doubleheader and five divisions of weekly racing. The CARQUEST Fall Final weekend will also crown a total of six champions as Stafford’s five weekly divisions will decide their 2008 track champion and the Camping World Series championship will be decided.
Tickets for the 36th Annual CARQUEST Fall Final Weekend are now on sale at the Stafford Motor Speedway Box Office. Tickets are priced at $35.00 for adult general admission tickets, $5.00 for children ages 6-14, $38.00 for reserved seats, and free for children ages 5 & under. Tickets are good for admission to the Saturday September 27, and Sunday, September 28 portions of the Fall Final, with the Friday, September 26 practice session open the public free of charge. As always, Stafford Motor Speedway offers plenty of free parking with overnight weekend parking available.
For more information, 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.