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There’s been no slowing C.E. Falk out of the gate around Virginia’s short tracks this year and that smoking start to the season has landed the Norfolk Beach, Va. driver at the top of the May edition of the NASCAR Hunter Index power poll.
Falk has five victories in eight starts including seven top-five [...]
STAFFORD – It’s fair to say Keith Rocco is a polarizing figure in the Southern New England Modified racing circles. Rocco stands as one of those love him or hate him individuals. There’s usually no middle ground.
For many that stand on the hater side, the offseason news that Rocco had landed a fulltime [...]
STAFFORD – Talk to Ryan Preece for any amount of time and its clear within minutes that there’s no shortage of optimistic giddiness coming from the 21-year old driver from Berlin.
Despite having the best car for most of Sunday’s NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Tech-Net Spring Sizzler 200 at Stafford Motor Speedway and having [...]
STAFFORD – Doug Coby may not have a stockpile of NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour victories on his resume, but the Milford driver is showing he knows how to collect the big check in the historic events.
Coby made the most of a dominant car Sunday by running away with victory in the Whelen Modified Tour [...]
STAFFORD – Three races together, three pole positions.
Ryan Preece and his Flamingo Motorsports team have proven that preparing for qualifying for NASCAR Whelen Tour Modified Tour events is something they’ve quickly mastered.
Preece, of Berlin, set a track qualifying record Saturday in time trials on the way to winning the pole for Sunday’s [...]
The hallmark accomplishment list of NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour achievements has been getting a lot of items checked off of late by driver Ron Silk.
Series championship? Silk checked that box last season. Icebreaker victory at Thompson International Speedway? Did that April 15 to open the 2012 season.
Silk, of Norwalk, goes looking to [...]
Upon further review …
Moments after the conclusion of the 30-lap NASCAR Whelen All-American Series SK Modified feature Sunday at the Icebreaker at Thompson International Speedway word was trickling out that track officials had made the decision to disqualify Ted Christopher from his fourth place finishing spot.
Monday things changed involving the situation.
THOMPSON – Ron Silk began defense of his 2011 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour championship in perfect fashion, celebrating in victory lane Sunday at Thompson International Speedway, though the path to celebration proved a strange one.
On the track, Silk was second at the start/finish line behind Rowan Pennink when the checkered flag flew, though NASCAR [...]
THOMPSON – A perfect qualifying Saturday for Ryan Preece carried over to the SK Modified feature Sunday at Thompson International Speedway.
Preece, of Berlin, held off Woody Pitkat over the closing laps to win the 30-lap NASCAR Whelen All-American Series SK Modified feature Sunday at Thompson.
Pitkat, of Stafford, was second and Todd Ceravolo [...]
THOMPSON – On Aug. 19, 2010, Rick Blanchard’s racing career at Thompson International Speedway essentially came to an end at the hands of a group of competitors and crew members who savagely attacked him following a Mini Stock feature at track.
This weekend two of the individuals who were part of the gang [...]
Keith Rocco put the rush job on to get from Thompson International Speedway to the Waterford Speedbowl Saturday night and it paid off.
Rocco, of Wallingford, passed Tom Abele Jr. on the final lap to win the 35-lap NASCAR Whelen All-American Series SK Modified feature at the Waterford Speedbowl Saturday.
It was the second [...]
THOMPSON – Two races, two poles.
It’s fair to say NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour driver Ryan Preece and his Flamingo Motorsports team have quickly mastered the action of qualifying together.
Preece, of Berlin, was fastest Saturday in qualifying on the way to winning the pole for Sunday’s Whelen Modified Tour season opening Icebreaker 150 at Thompson International [...]
THOMPSON – The engines of the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour roared back to life for the 2012 season Saturday with the arrival of Icebreaker 2012 qualifying day at Thompson International Speedway.
Saturday’s qualifying will set the field for Sunday’s Icebreaker 150 at Thompson. Ted Christopher of Plainville is the event’s defending champion.
Before qualifying [...]
THOMPSON – Justin Bonsignore’s quest to assert himself as a contender for a NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour title in 2012 began nicely Saturday at Thompson International Speedway.
Bonsignore, of Holtsville, N.Y., led the way in practice Saturday at Thompson in preparation for Sunday’s season opening Icebreaker 150.
Bonsignore toured the five-eighths mile oval at [...]
THOMPSON – The sun is shining, the sky is blue and there’s no snow in the forecast, time to go racing at Thompson International Speedway.
The Big T opens it 2012 racing schedule Saturday with day one of Icebreaker weekend. Practice rounds begin at the track at 11:15 a.m., with the NASCAR Whelen Modified [...]
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