The event, which will be the seventh leg of the Raceway’s
year-long Heritage Drivers Series, is scheduled on September 24th,
the date of the famed Battle of Rowton Heath in 1645 during the English
Civil War when a Royalist army, commanded in person by King Charles was
defeated by the Parliamentarians under the command of German, Sydnam Poyntz.
The winning driver in the Mayflower Mile will represent the
“Brits” in the series finale. He, or she, will be joined by all the previous
Heritage Series race winners in what is being dubbed the All-America Cup which
will be contested in early November.
Drivers who already have earned a berth in the series
finale—the All-America Pace-- via their victories in the preliminary Heritage
Drivers Series preliminary legs include: Bobby Williams, Jr.(Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. Pace); Lisa Krom (Lady Godiva Pace); Jimmy Taggart, Jr. (St.
Paddy Pace), Alan Charles (Passover Pace), Mike Merton (Munich Mile); and
Mike Forte (Godfather Pace).
With many of the tracks leading drivers participating the
last time the Mayflower Mile was contested the outcome wasn’t sure until the
final strides when Greg Merton got Tradin Paint up in the final strides for a
neck victory in a 1:59.3 clocking.
“Currently we have a quite few drivers of English descent
ready to compete but we still can use more in order to have a full field,” said
Eric Warner the tracks Director of racing. “Anyone with family origins
which can be traced back to anywhere in the United Kingdom is eligible to
compete in our Mayflower Mile as long as they have either a “P
(provisional) or “A” (full)” license from the USTA.”
Any person who fits the criteria and would like to compete
in the Mayflower Mile is asked to please contact Warner in the race
office by calling 845-794-4100 ext. 557; or they can call the track’s public
relations department at 845-794-4100 ext. 455.
