After a few months hiatus Monticello Raceway’s Heritage
Drivers Series is set to resume on Thursday afternoon, August 29 with a race
for drivers of British Heritage, dubbed the Mayflower Mile.
The event, will be the seventh leg of the Raceway’s
year-long Heritage Drivers Series and the winning driver in the Mayflower
Mile will represent the “Brits” in the series finale slated later this fall.
Drivers who already have earned a berth in the series
finale—the All-America Pace-- via their victories in the Heritage Drivers
Series preliminary legs include: Dennis Watson (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pace); Jimmy Marohn, Jr. (St. Paddy Pace), Bobby Krivelin (Passover
Pace), and Veronica Merton(Lady Godiva Pace).
Zeke Parker is the defending champion in the Mayflower Mile
having won last year’s event with Doc’s Whiskey in a time of 1:57.2. He will be
back to defend his title.
“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.
