There have been 29 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East races contested at Stafford Motor Speedway in Stafford, Connecticut, dating back to the series inception in 1987. In those 29 races, there have been 20 different winners — none, perhaps, more memorable than the 2003 race won by Martin Truex Jr.
The future NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver led all 150 laps in that race for his second career win on the half-mile oval.
This weekend the series returns to Stafford for the first time since the 2008 season finale. Like the list of visitors to the track’s Victory Lane, that 2008 race also featured a number of names familiar to NASCAR fans across the country. Daytona 500 winner Trevor Bayne finished second in the 2008 race, and current Richard Childress Racing Sprint Cup Series driver Austin Dillon finished fourth. The year before, fans at Stafford watched New England favorite Eddie MacDonald top a field that included last year’s Daytona 500 winner, Joey Logano, and Jeffrey Earnhardt.
A new crop of aspiring national series drivers head to the Stafford 150 on Friday, including points leader Justin Haley. The 17-year-old Winamac, Indiana, driver has five top-five finishes in six races this season, picking up his first career win at Greenville Pickens Speedway and finishing second in each of the last two series races, at Virginia International Raceway and Virginia’s Dominion Raceway.
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