Wall Stadium plans day of racing on Oct. 24
The Oct. 24 "Tommy Comerford Memorial" will offer plenty of racing action at Wall Stadium, Wall Township. In addition to the twin 66-lap main events for the tour type Modifieds, the Calabreeze Pools Sportsman division, the Street Stocks, the INEX Legend Cars and the Flanagan Retail Development Factory Stocks will also be on the card.
The Sportsman, Street Stock and Factory Stock cars will see double duty as they battle in the originally scheduled Oct. 24 main events plus feature races rain postponed from the Sept. 26 Able Ford Subaru Racing Series regular season finale.
On Oct. 24, pit area gates will open at 9:30 a.m. and practice will begin at 10:30 a.m. and run until 1:30 p.m. The grandstands will open at 11 a.m. to the general public, while fans who purchased tickets during the Sept. 26 presale will have the opportunity to enter the grandstands at 10:30 a.m.
The first events on the agenda will be the three rain postponed races from Sept. 26. Those events, 25-lappers for the Sportsman and Street Stocks and a 20-lapper for the Factory Stocks, will begin promptly at 1:45 p.m. Next up, at approximately 2:30 p.m., will be qualifying for the day's originally scheduled events.
Then, at 3:45 p.m., the first of a pair of tour type Modified 66-lap features will be contested before the Legend Cars, Sportsman and Street Stock racers return in 25-lap features. The tour type Modifieds will then run their second 66-lapper of the day before the Factory Stocks wrap up the action in a 20-lapper.
The "Tommy Comerford Memorial" will feature two 66-lap main events for tour type Modified stock cars offering each winner a $6,600 payday. A total purse of $40,000 is up for grabs at present and that could climb as the event approaches, according to a press release.
Comerford, who passed away a few years ago due to natural causes, was an 11- time Modified main event winner at Wall Stadium with the majority of those victories coming at the wheel of Don Ling's No. 66, thus the 66-lap races and the $6,600 winning payoffs.
Promoter Jim Morton said that event will serve as a qualifier for both the North/South Shootout near Concord, N.C., in early November and for the Thanksgiving weekend Turkey Derby at Wall Stadium.
Wall Stadium is on Route 34 in Wall Township. The speedway hotline number is 732-681-6400.











