He raced many tracks, but was most famous for his number 151 at the Danbury Race arena. His love for stockcar racing began in 1949. He was a lifelong resident of Woodbury, and he served with the United States Army. manufactured and promoted an Aluminum-based driver containment seat which. Stockwell was born in Woodbury, the son of the late Charles Stockwell Sr. I also remembered having seen a restored race car listed as being Chick Stockwell's, when I visited the Golden Age of Trucking Museum (Middlebury, CT) back in early 2007 ( ref: ), though I don't know if the same vehicle is one of those that was lost in last week's fire.Īnyway, that's as much as I know-thought it was worth passing along. LaJoie started his racing career at Danbury Racearena where he became the.
I did some googling today and found a few local media stories: I wrote one more followup and asked what the terrible thing was-turns out this man's house and barn were lost in a fire last week. When Danbury closed, LaJoie shifted his racing efforts to Waterford and then to the new SK Modified division at Stafford. A few days ago I received an event notice regarding a "fund raiser/picnic" for a famous race driver from the old Danbury (CT) Racearena, Charles "Chick" Stockwell.Īfter I got the listing posted on our Calendar page ( ), I wrote back to the person who sent me the event notice, advising that it was posted they then wrote back and thanked me for the help, in light of the "terrible thing" that had happened to Mr. Lajoie, son of Danbury Race Arena legend Don LaJoie, began racing go karts at age 12 and switched to a Sportsman car at Danbury in 1980 at the age of 18.
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