SEPTEMBER SERIES CLOSES OUT FRIDAY NIGHT NASCAR RACING AT STAFFORD MOTOR SPEEDWAY

(Stafford Springs, CT)—As the summer season begins to give way to the
autumn season, the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series season at Stafford
Motor Speedway heads into its final month of Friday night NASCAR racing
before the season ending CARQUEST Fall Final Weekend. The CARQUEST Fall
Final Weekend is scheduled for Oct. 1st through Oct. 3rd and the “September
Series”, Stafford’s three Friday night events in September, give competitors
one final chance to position themselves either into championship contention,
or to move up a spot or two in the points standings before the 2010 season
comes to an end.

The tightest points race of the season at Stafford is in the Limited Late
Model division. Last year’s top-2 finishers, Andrew Durand and Dan
Flannery, are once again dueling for the track championship. Flannery has
enjoyed a career season with five wins and he has led the points standings
for much of the 2010 season after a poor Spring Sizzler left him playing
catch up for the first few races of the year. But Durand, the defending
Ltd. Late Model track champion, has been the most consistent driver in the
division. Durand has yet to finish lower than ninth this season and he has
also scored two wins, one of which came in last week’s double feature event
and he moved ahead of Flannery in the standings for the first time since
early in the season. Also in contention is Dave Yardley, III, who captured
his first career victory this season and former track champion Kevin
Gambacorta, who has two wins to his credit this season.

Stafford’s premier division, the SK Modifieds®, has been the Keith Rocco
show this year. Rocco won the season opening Spring Sizzler and he has won
8 more times for a grand total of 9 victories this season. Rocco has been
atop the SK Modified® standings all season long and he appears headed to his
second career track championship at Stafford. The hottest driver in the
division over the past 6 races has been Frank Ruocco. Ruocco ended Rocco’s
4-race winning streak on July 9th and he has scored 5 podium finishes out of
his last six events to catapault himself from outside to the top-10 in
points into fourth position behind Woody Pitkat and Ted Christopher.
Speaking of Christopher, he has yet to win an SK Modified® feature this
season. Should Christopher remain winless, it would be the first time since
the 1985 season that Christopher hasn’t won at least one SK Modified®
feature event at Stafford.

Stafford’s Late Model division sees 4-time Stafford track champion Ryan
Posocco ready to notch a fifth track championship. Dillon Moltz won two of
the first three races of the 2010 season and he led the standings for much
of the season. But misfortune has found Moltz in the last two events with
Moltz finishing 14th and 18th to drop him back into third place in the
standings behind Posocco and Woody Pitkat. Pitkat has been the big winner
of the 2010 season with 5 victories and if he can return to his winning ways
in the final month of the season, he may just erase the 48 point margin he
faces and become a two-time Stafford Late Model champion.

Stafford’s SK Light Modifieds has been the year of the youth movement as
three 15-year olds have found their way to CARQUEST Victory Lane and a
16-year old leads the points standings on the strength of 3 wins this
season. The youth movement began when 15-year old Joey Cipriano won his
first race of the season on May 14th to become the youngest feature winner
in Stafford’s history. Cipriano held that record for three weeks until
Tommy Barrett, Jr. won his first race on June 4th. Since that first win,
Barrett has reeled off a total of 7 wins this season, including 5 of the
last 6 races heading into the Aug. 27th event. Barrett missed the Spring
Sizzler because he hadn’t turned 15 yet and he has moved all the way up the
ladder to second in the points standings, behind Matt Galko, who is leading
the points with 3 wins at the ripe old age of 16. Stafford’s other 15 year
old victor this season was Dylan Liseo, a second generation driver who
scored his first win in a thrilling side by side duel with Barrett that was
settled at the checkered flag by the nose of his car.

In Stafford’s DARE Stock division, Tony Membrino, Jr. has been at the top of
the points standings since he won the season opening CARQUEST Spring Sizzler
feature. Membrino hasn’t been able to shake Kyle Casagrande from his heels
as Casagrande became the first three-time winner in the DARE Stock division
last week and he sits only 30 points behind Membrino in the chase for the
championship. Sitting third in the points is DARE Stock veteran Jeff Jolly,
who has 2 wins to his credit and is 52 points behind Membrino.
Stafford kicks off the month of September on September 3rd with a multimedia
fireworks display adding to the on-track action. The Modified Racing Series
makes its Stafford debut on September 10th with the Inaugural Shark Cycle
100, and September wraps up with the Final Friday Night Shoot-Out on
September 17th with a 2-week break before the curtain comes down on the 2010
season at the CARQUEST Fall Final.

For more information, contact the Stafford Motor Speedway track office at
860-684-2783 or visit us on the web at www.staffordspeedway.com.