Let's Do the Time Warp Again

Looks like someone didn't want to leave the past via the look at Stafford's homepage today.

By the looks of things, someone went a little too far into the past.

Yes, that's a series of screenshots, courtesy of me, showing track news from December 30... 2008. And it's not just the stories. It goes all the way from the top of the page, with the SK Modified and Late Model champions, as well as the coming attractions.

I would assume that something like this is a mistake. It's not major news, but in the offseason, a little pre-2011 chuckle couldn't hurt.

Pre-2011 News

Hope you guys had a very Merry Christmas. 2011 is coming up quick, and there's news to share.

+ RallyCross is coming to Stafford. The parking lot is going will be quite busy on January 15 and 16 as the Engraving Awards and Gifts RallyCross and the Eastern States RallyCross Challenge Championship takes place.

+ In the "drivers moving up" department, Cory Casagrande is moving up from DARE Stocks to Limited Late Models, while Dylan Kopec will be racing in the SK Lights after winning the Senior Outlaw championship in the Wild Thing Kart Series last year. Kopec is not the only driver from the division to jump up to Friday nights, as there are three other drivers from the Senior Outlaws who are also joining him.

+ The third page I linked to in the last story includes more about the Champions for Charities event. The names of those who are going to be racing Senior Outlaws at the CARQuest Extreme Tuesday event will be announced sometime during the first week of January.

Champions for Charities

If you remember me talking about the schedule a few weeks back, I had mentioned something about a Champions for Charities event that was going to take place during the CARQuest Extreme Tuesday program.

Stafford put up the details of the event on the site today. I've linked to it here.

Here's what the event consists of:

During that night's schedule of events, 12-15 open-wheel champions (who were invited) will take to the track. They will pick a charity to represent and will start donating money to that charity of their choice. Stafford and CARQuest will give each driver/charity $3,000.

Each champion will be driving a Senior Outlaw from the Wild Thing Kart Series. On June 28, the drivers will qualify for the event with two eight-lap heats. This is where the donation factor comes into play. Because the more money a driver gets via donations, the better their chances are that they'll start on the pole for the heats. The two drivers who raise the most for their charities will be the two pole sitters.

After both heat races have finished, there will be a 15-lap feature. All races are done on the mini mile. The winner of the feature gets what the article calls a "champion's gift pack". There is a prize for the driver who raises the most money during the designated "fundraising period". That driver recieves also recieves a "racer's gift pack".

More information about this event will come in 2011.

I have nothing bad to say about any and all of this. Every year, there's always something different going on as part of the Extreme Tuesday event, and the 2011 edition should be pretty fun to go see.

Pre-Christmas News Megapost

This could possibly be the last post I make before Christmas, so let's make it a megapost. There's a lot to cover in this, so let's get right to it.

+ The big headline from last week: The banquet for the Whelen All-American Series, taking place last Friday night at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte. Keith Rocco was the star of the show, as he was honored for his record achievement; collecting a maximum 810 points to clinch the national championship.

+ This logo, over to the right here? Well, it's going to be used in the 2011 season as NASCAR celebrates 30 seasons of the Whelen All-American Series. Sorry for taking it off the website. Thought a visual would be helpful. I'll also paste the link here as well. Did you know that nine tracks have been partnered with NASCAR for all 30 years? According to the press release, Stafford is one of those tracks.

+ Award money has also been revealed from this past season as well. $30,575 was earned from contingency sponsors (finishing in the top-3 in features; etc) and Reliable Welding and Speed for the Rookies of the Year. Another $35,500 was paid out for post-season awards.

+ And closing this out on a jolly note, Santa is coming to town. Santa is Glenn Johnson, owner of Morrison and Johnson Automotive. I love the pictures of the sleigh.

With that, I'm going to wish all of you a Merry Christmas. Stay safe. Stay dry. And if there's news before the new year, I'll be posting it.

SMS Linkage Day

So... Yeah. Those banquets for the touring series/NWAMS coming this week? Stafford's got a press release on them. Won't link to that, because it's the same thing I linked to a few days ago when I did the blog entry dedicated to NASCAR Home Tracks. (There's also a press release up for the NWAMS, which I also have linked.)

Although there are more press releases on the site as well. So let's get into those, shall we?

+ One last tidbit of information in regards to the banquet and all events in the week leading up to it: There was a karting challenge between the drivers attending and some of the media. The event took place in North Carolina on Wednesday. There's video and a picture of the action in the article. Bobby Santos won the event. Ryan Truex (K&N Pro Series East) was second. Keith Rocco was third. The picture in the link was courtesy of Getty Images. Wherever that album is, I can't find it.

+ Don't think that the banquet is the only newsworthy thing going on this week. There's also a story about Victoria Bergenty.

NASCAR Home Tracks Linkage Day

You might have seen the little story on the main page of Stafford's site for a good portion of the fall - former NASCAR champions were in photo shoots with some of the champions in 2010, mainly in touring divisions. The Twitter page for the NASCAR Home Tracks (@NASCARHomeTrack) teased the release of the story on 12/6. They cut it close. Today, it's out.

Looks pretty good, too. Click here. You have the photo taken at Stafford with Bobby Santos and Bobby Allison, and the photo of Keith Rocco and Richard Petty taken at the NASCAR Hall of Fame. I believe the latter (not the actual photo in the link, but another photo) was shown on Stafford's home page as well. I might be mistaken.

Speaking of Rocco, NASCAR's Home Tracks site also has a wrap-up of the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series, concluding the 2010 season. (No, the series isn't wrapping up. Just the season.) Just kind of goes over what we already know. There's also information up for the NWAMS banquet, taking place on 12/10 at 7pm EST. There's scheduled to be a webcast up on the NASCAR Home Tracks page.