Catchfence

After two consecutive weeks of weather affected racing cards, officials at Stafford Motor Speedway are hoping they can dodge the rain drops Friday and get in a full show for the first time since July 9.

But it will be Stafford Speedway Late Model division points leader Dillon Moltz hoping somehow his division’s 30-lap feature gets cancelled.

The bright lights and attention of a nationally televised racing event are calling for Moltz this weekend, but because of that, he will miss Friday’s event at Stafford.

It could end up costing him his first Stafford Motor Speedway championship.

Moltz, of Waterford, will attempt to make his ARCA Racing Series debut in Saturday’s Weis Markets 125 at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa.

He will spend Friday at Pocono Raceway taking part in practice and qualifying for the ARCA event. Moltz, 19, earned the opportunity to compete in the ARCA race by winning the inaugural Richard Petty’s Driver Search competition in April. The race will be televised live on SPEED at 3 p.m. Saturday.

The original plan for Moltz was to travel back to Stafford after ARCA qualifying to compete in the Late Model event at Stafford, but he said officials from the driver search program asked him not to do that.

- Hartford Courant