Welcoming an Open-Wheeled Newcomer

The SK Light division at Stafford is welcoming a newcomer to the land of the open wheels when John Hanafin makes his Modified racing debut.

His expertise in racing comes from Seekonk Speedway, where he's made it to victory lane seven times in Street Stocks and once in a Late Model. But it's a dream of his to race Modifieds at the Connecticut track. The car he'll be using to hopefully make it to victory lane at Stafford was Alan Provost's, who sold the car to Hanafin. (Provost is moving up to the Late Models in '08.)

Sponsors for his car were lost since he's switching states, but he'll have sponsors of President's Landscape Design and Union Ironworkers Local #7.