Where: Stafford Motor Speedway
What: Bud Light Open 80, TC 13 SK Modified Shootout and NASCAR Whelen All-American Series racing card
When: Friday
Schedule: 80-lap Bud Light Open Modified, 13-lap TC SK Modified Shootout, 40-lap NASCAR Whelen All-American Series SK Modified, 30-lap Late Model, 20-lap SK Light Modified, 15-lap Limited Late Model and 20-lap Street Stock.
Grandstands open: 5:15 p.m.; Qualifying: 6:30 p.m.; Features: Approximately 7 p.m.
More: The 11th event of the season at Stafford Motor Speedway. … The card includes two special events. … The Bud Light Open 80 is the third Open Modified event of the season at Stafford. … Keith Rocco won the first event Open 80 of the season on May 24 and NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series regular Ryan Preece won the second Open 80 on June 14. … Thirty-three teams are on the preliminary entry list for Friday’s Open 80. … Friday marks the second running of the TC 13 SK Modffied shootout in memory of Stafford’s all-time winningest driver Ted Christopher, who was killed in plane crash in September 2017. The top-13 finishers of the 40-lap SK Modified feature will transfer to the TC 13 SK Modified Shootout. The winner of the 40-lap SK Modified feature will draw a number 1-13 to determine the invert starting order of the TC 13 Shootout based on the finishing order from the SK Modified feature. If 13 is drawn the 13th place finisher will start on the pole of the shootout. Glen Reen won the first TC 13 SK Modified Shoout in 2018. … Last week, Keith Rocco got his second win of the season in the SK Modified feature. … Other SK Modified winners this year are reigning division champion Ronnie Williams (two wins), Todd Owen (two wins), Eric Berndt (two wins), Glen Reen and Andrew Molleur. … Owen leads second place Michael Gervais Jr. by 30 points in the SK Modified standings. Rocco is third in the standings, 32 points off the lead. … Reigning division champion Tom Fearn got his fourth win of the season in last week’s Late Model feature. … Other Late Model winners this year include Alberte Saunders (two wins), Kevin Gambacorta (two wins), Michael Wray and Cliff Saunders. … Fearn leads the Late Model standings by 80 points over second place Wray with Gambacorta in third, 82 points off the lead. … Bryan Narducci got his third win of the season in last week’s SK Light Modified feature. … … Other SK Light Modified winners this year include Noah Korner (two wins), Alexander Pearl (two wins), Teddy Hodgdon IV (two wins) and Mark Bakaj. … Hodgdon leads the SK Light Modified standings by 28 points over Noah Chapman with Pearl in third, 46 points off the lead. … Matt Clement got his fifth win of the season in last week’s Limited Late Model feature. … Other Limited Late Model winners this year include reigning division champion Jeremy Lavoie (three wins) Gary Patnode and Duane Provost. … Clement leads second place Lavoie by six points atop the Limited Late Model division standings with Patnode 20 points off the lead in third. … Meghan Fuller got her second win of the season in last week’s Street Stock feature. … Other Street Stock winners this year include Zack Robinson (three wins), reigning division champion George Bessette Jr. (two wins), Johnny Walker, Michael Hopkins and Jason Lafayette. … .. Fuller leads the Street Stock standings by 20 points over Bessette with Zack Robinson in third, 26 points off the lead. … For more information check the Stafford Motor Speedway website.
I’m guessing 80 Modifieds between the three classes. Despite the Lee USA VMRS race being 25% closer, I think it will be well worth the 2-1/2 hrs. time to make my 1-1/2 hr. drive to Stafford this afternoon!
Possibly 90