Stafford Springs, CT — The stars and cars of the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour return to Stafford on Friday, May 23rd for the 18th Annual TSI Harley-Davidson 150. Last season, Donny Lia won the Spring Sizzler and then returned to Stafford and won the TSI Harley-Davidson 150, which accounted for two of his season high 6 wins that helped propel him to the 2007 championship. Ted Christopher will look to do the exact same thing this season for the Whelen Modified Tour’s second visit to the Connecticut half-mile.
“I’m looking forward to coming back to Stafford,” said Christopher. “I think we’ll have a real good car again. It will really help us to get a full practice. At the Sizzler, we only got three laps of practice and we lost the rear end. We still time-trialed fifth and we won the race, so I think with a few minor adjustments to the car we should be really good when we come back. The car was tight at the start of the Sizzler, and I think if we had the car as good as it should have been, we would have been up front all day long. The best part of winning the Sizzler is getting that first win of the season out of the way early. It really gives the whole team a confidence boost. We should have won a lot of races last year, but circumstances led to us not winning. We thought that’s how our season was getting started this year with the rain at Thompson right after we came to pit road and then at the Sizzler with the rear end. No one can say we lucked into that win, we passed a lot of cars to win that race.”
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Camping World Series East, Whelen Modified Tour to Test May 12
Daytona Beach, FL — Race teams from the NASCAR Camping World Series East and NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour are set to visit New Hampshire Motor Speedway for a joint test session on May 12.
The test sessions for NASCAR Camping World Series East and NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour teams are held in preparation for the series’ upcoming events at New Hampshire. The NASCAR Camping World Series East will run the Heluva Good! Summer 125 on Friday, June 27 while the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour will take the green flag on Saturday, June 28 in the New England 100. Both series are scheduled to return to New Hampshire for events on Sept. 12-13. Please visit the track’s official Web site (nhms.com) for ticket information.
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Idle the past three weeks, the Northeastern Midget Association returns to Waterford Speedbowl Saturday night. Rain washed out Seekonk Speedway’s opener last weekend but it failed to cool the ambitions of the NEMA drivers.
A trio of announced championship contenders – veterans Joey Payne Jr., Nokie Fornoro and Greg Stoehr – are anxious to continue their bids on what many consider the premier Midget track in the east. Payne and Stoehr were second and third at the Speedbowl back at the Modified Nationals on April 12th in the only feature NEMA has run so far this season.
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