(Press release from Stafford Speedway)
Stafford Speedway and Monaco Modified Tri-Track Series officials have released a full prize money breakdown for the 49th Annual NAPA Auto Parts Fall Final scheduled for Saturday, September 24th. In addition, a 20 lap non-qualifiers B-Main presented by RaceChoice.com has been added to the event schedule.
Over 50 of the top Modified teams in the Northeast will be at Stafford to compete for $15,000 to win and a guaranteed $1,000 to start. Total prize money for the 80 lap race will be in excess of $66,000. The 20 lap RaceChoice.com non-qualifiers race will pay $500 to start, while the winner will have the option to take home a $1,000 payday or transfer to compete in the NAPA Auto Parts Fall Final. Additional prize money will be on the line with a $300 bonus going to the winner of each heat race.
NAPA Fall Final Tickets & Event Information
“This is the biggest NAPA Auto Parts Fall Final we’ve had in over 20 years,” explained Stafford Speedway CEO Mark Arute. “Over 50 teams have already entered the event and will all be chasing the big $15,000 payday. After a great event back in 2020, we’re looking forward to having the Monaco Modified Tri-Track Series back at Stafford for the NAPA Fall Final.”
51 teams have already entered the NAPA Auto Parts Fall Final including: Woody Pitkat, Matt Hirschman, Burt Myers, Ron Silk, Chuck Hossfeld, Eric Goodale, Ryan Preece, Keith Rocco, Ronnie Williams, Anthony Nocella, Chase Dowling and more.
Tickets for the 49th Annual NAPA Auto Parts Fall Final are available online at staffordspeedway.com/tickets. Limited reserved tickets are available for the September 24th event. Also joining the Monaco Modified Tri-Track Series is an SK Modified point race, the Vintage All-Stars, and a special SK Light Modified Invitational that is open to any driver who has not won an SK Light Modified feature event in 2022.
About RaceChoice.com
RaceChoice.com provides quality racing safety & performance parts from the best brands in the world at affordable prices. With over 100,0000 products, from brands such as RaceQuip, Simpson, Stilo, HANS, K1, MPI, AllStar, Alpinestars, Lucas Oil, Driven, Schaeffer, PennGrade, Longacre, and many more, they are here to help keep racers on track. The team at RaceChoice.com has spent 15 years offering the best prices on racing performance parts & safety equipment and have even more time behind the wheel. As racers the team at RaceChoice.com know the importance of helping drivers get into the sport. Team RaceChoice is well represented throughout the region with drivers Ryan Preece, Jake Garcia, Keith Rocco, Joey Ternullo, Meg Fuller, Emma Monahan, Andrew Molleur, and Jacob Perry.
For more information, visit www.staffordspeedway.com, checkout Stafford Speedway on Facebook or Twitter, or contact the track office at 860-684-2783.
Great payout all around-Tri Track Series is getting stronger every year. Any purse posted for the skl invitational ?
Seems to me this is just smarter then would first appear.
Every fan worth their salt is transfixed on the top tier and who will be the winner. The top of the field is the headline but the way to get great car counts is how you treat the teams racing with more strict budgets, lower expectations and satisfy their competitive fire given their restrictions.
This forum often appears to be singularly focused on car counts. Then in the body of comments less competitive teams will be demeaned by referring to them a field fillers or back markers. People that use those terms are ignorant about racing in my view.
Some teams will be working their ass off to make it to this show with lower but nonetheless important goals. Their goal may very well be hitting their best lap time even though they may be tenths of a second off the leaders. Their goal may be knowing full well that unless they get exceptionally lucky they will end up in the non qualifiers race but that’s fine as long as there’s competition and something to win. That’s the key for the MMTTS and Stafford to get a high car count. Create a race that gives virtually any team that shows up a race where they can compete with other teams at their level and win something.
Fans as a rule don’t get that nor even care. They can’t even grasp the fact that a person can race without any goal or expectation of moving up to the highest level and if they do realize it they may ridicule them. Many times top tier teams don’t care either.
The Icebreaker will get huge tour mod car counts and races that are attractive to all budget levels but that’s three races in three days.
If it’s a one day event, car counts are important to a sanctioning group and they’ve got the juice to come up with the money this is exactly the way to do it. Give every single team that shows up a chance to leave at the end of the day feeling they accomplished something and promote the heck out it at the same time.
A lot of racing for one afternoon. With cautions, delays and cleans ups the main feature probably wont start until about 9.00 pm like at the spring sizzler No need for tor heats for the sk and lites, just run features. Hope the weather is good!,
Great assessment Doug! That was a perfect description of racers along with track and promotional groups that fans need a better understanding of! Many fans look only at what’s racing in front of them and fail to realize the scope of what it takes for the efforts of hundreds of people and many piles of $$$ to make the end result happen!
JH,
Heat racing starts at 1:30 pm. There are no SK Modified heats. The main event is scheduled for 6 pm. I don’t see any reason why that start time wouldn’t be met.
4-1/2 hours just to get to the feature start?!? That means a six-hour event. Name any other sport in the world that drags out a show to that level. Or concert, or anything. Imagine sitting in a stadium for a six-hour football game. Unheard of. And even baseball has only ever had a handful of games longer than 6 hours, out of the thousands and thousands that have been played.