Daytona Beach, FL — NASCAR announced Monday afternoon that the Lightnin’ Fast 150 NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour race postponed due to rain on March 27 at Ace Speedway in Altamahaw, N.C., has been rescheduled.
The Lightnin’ Fast 150 will now be held on Friday, April 10 at 8 p.m. The race will be the first of back-to-back events for the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour over Easter weekend.
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Silver Anniversary Modified Season to Open at Icebreaker
Fittingly, in a division with so much history, the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour will come full circle this weekend at Thompson (Conn.) International Speedway.
The Modified division dates back to 1948, the inaugural season for racing sanctioned by NASCAR. The present-day NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, however, held its first event at Thompson with the Icebreaker on March 31, 1985. The same track and event will also play host to the first race of the 25th NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour season on Sunday, April 5.
The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour and the 1985 season began with the series’ most-prominent name in Victory Lane. Richie Evans, coming off his eighth NASCAR Modified national title in 1984, took the checkered flag in the new touring series’ inaugural event to launch what would be his ninth and final championship campaign.
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Thompson, CT — This weekend’s ICEBREAKER at the Thompson International Speedway will be day one for champions to begin the defense of their titles. With seven NASCAR Whelen sponsored divisions in competition at the ICEBREAKER, the 2008 champ in each division will be under a lot of pressure to remain at the top.
NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour (WMT) champion, Ted Christopher, will lead his touring division into the 150-lap main event that will open their season. Christopher is no stranger to victory lane on ICEBREAKER weekend having scored back-to-back wins ’04 and ’05. Christopher was recently chosen by members of the media as their choice to be the 2009 WMT champion.
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