The Davidson Company Renews Stafford SK Modified® 1st Place Contingency Sponsorship in Memory of Dave Rowe
Stafford Springs, CT — The Davidson Company has returned to Stafford Speedway’s Contingency Program as a first place SK Modified® feature sponsor. Each Davidson Company bonus awarded during the 2009 season will be a special presentation in memory of Dave Rowe, who passed away in May of last year. Mr. Rowe founded The Davidson Company in 1974, and he was a long-time supporter of racing at Stafford. Mr. Rowe began sponsoring cars at Stafford in the early 1990s and the tradition that he started continues strong today as Davidson is not only a contingency sponsor, but they own the SK Modified® cars of Jeff Malave and Woody Pitkat, the Late Model of Michael Bennett, the SK Light Modified of Mike Lane, and they are the primary sponsor of the Late Model that Ryan Posocco took to a track championship last season.
“This is going to be a special year for us,” said Tim Rowe, owner of Davidson Racing and Sr. Vice President of Davidson Foods. “Our father loved to help out the racers at Stafford. He always said that you never know if you might be helping out a driver that you might soon be watching on Sundays driving in the Cup Series. He felt Stafford was a great family atmosphere and he felt right at home on Friday nights at Stafford. We are going to carry on the tradition that he began with our cars racing in his memory and our contingency bonus given in his memory.”
Davidson will contribute a weekly bonus of $150.00 to each SK Modified® feature winner during the 2009 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series season. Combined with the weekly $150.00 bonus provided by CARQUEST, and the $150.00 bonus from Valvoline, each SK Modified® feature winner at Stafford during the 2009 season will take home $1,850. The Davidson Company has contributed over $11,000 to SK Modified® competitors over the past four seasons and their 2009 contribution will move that total to nearly $15,000.
“We’re happy to have Davidson on board with us for another season,” said SMS COO Mark Arute. “Davidson has supported our weekly race program for over 15 years here at Stafford, and we’re happy to have them in our family of Contingency Partners for another season. It is thanks to their continued support of the SK Modified® division that we are able to offer one of the largest winner’s purses anywhere in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series.”
The Davidson Company is the largest wholesale specialty food distributor in Southern New England. The Davidson Company is number one in customer service, and has been owned and operated by the Rowe Family since 1974. Davidson offers over 4,000 specialty food products, including the complete line of Cosmos Antipasto Specialties of West Haven, CT. When you visit your local grocery store, chances are very high of purchasing food that came from Davidson’s Wallingford, CT warehouse. For more information about The Davidson Company and their race teams at Stafford Motor Speedway, visit www.davidsonspecfoods.com.
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