Daytona Beach, FL – The 2009 NASCAR Camping World Series East champion will be crowned in the Sunoco 150 this Friday, Sept. 25 at Dover (Del.) International Speedway.
At Dover International Speedway:
History
• Dover International Speedway opened in 1969.
• The first NASCAR event at the facility was a Sprint Cup Series race on July 6, 1969.
• The first NASCAR Camping World Series East race was held on July 18, 1998.
• DIS is the only concrete racing surface on which the NCWSE will compete in 2009.
• DIS held 10 NASCAR Nationwide Series–NCWSE combination races from 1987-92.
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The NASCAR Whelen Modified and Whelen Southern Modified Tours will get together for a combination race for the fifth year in a row with the Made In America Whelen 300 this Sunday, Sept. 27, in one of the nation’s most storied racing venues, Martinsville (Va.) Speedway.
With few exceptions, Martinsville has been on the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour schedule since its beginning in 1985. Now in the 25th season of competition, the Whelen Modifieds return to the southern Virginia ‘paperclip’ for the 34th time this weekend.
For the fifth year in a row, the Whelen Modified Tour will be joined at Martinsville by their counterparts below the Mason-Dixon Line, the Whelen Southern Modified Tour.
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For the second time this season, the NASCAR Whelen and NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tours will come together for a combination event.
This weekend Martinsville Speedway will host the Made in America Whelen 200 and many competitors are looking forward to the return.
One competitor especially looking forward to racing this weekend is current NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour points leader George Brunnhoelzl III (No. 28 Oval Speed/Fibrwrap/PT Ford). Brunnhoelzl enjoyed a solid run last season before engine problems just three laps from the finish.
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This is going to start off very lightly. I can’t even tell you where I’ve been this past weekend. Nor can I comment on anything that happened at New Hampshire, new to somebody who’s not looking out for others in the racing fraternity and made it very difficult for me to travel to and from this particular track. If I tell you where I was it could be a dead giveaway. All I can say is something strange was going on and it all comes down to fairness or lack of fairness. My work here and on WLAR [We Love Auto Racing] at 718-707-1052 is becoming a crusade on how to bring people back to this sport on both sides of the fence. I’m expecting this story to be in 3 parts. And as planned stand, the final part won’t be until much of the season’s over. What I can promise however, is that this’ll be another pure example of what’s hurting short track racing. I may never reveal the characters. But that may depend on whether or not the incidents at this particular speedway have repercussions on certain competitors. This is it for part 1.
Now as you steady readers and listeners [WLAR] know that I’ve come up with a lot of different ideas of how to make racing better again. This mostly pertains to the short tracks but if it can work in the big leagues also, then we can all be a lot happier. The more fun we have with our racing the better it is and the more happy most of us are. When bonehead decisions are made and it results in more costs to competitors that results in less cars, less fans, less fun and less happiness.
My “idea for the week” is for a track and association completely operated by owners and drivers. I know this is being done at a handful of tracks around the country. Whether these tracks were bought or built I don’t know. Some of you have heard of SNYRA. This was the club that operated the now defunct but famous Danbury Fair Racearena. There club was very close to my idea. For years and years it was a full house both in the pits and in the stands. There was 1 problem, they didn’t own the place. And now it’s gone.
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The American Canadian Tour (ACT) crowned Quebec City, Quebec veteran racer Donald Theetge as the 2009 Série ACT Castrol Champion. It was the second ACT Championship for the Theetge team. Theetge led the JPN Racing Patrick Laperle team by 33 points going into the final and longest race of the season, a 300-lap event on the 4/10ths mile oval at Autodrome St. Eustache, just outside Montreal.
Theetge was racing comfortably past the halfway mark in the 300-lap grind when he was involved in a major wreck on the front stretch. The race car suffered what appeared to be irreparable damage. “My team never gave up. My guys literally rebuilt the entire left side of the front suspension during the middle of the race. I have won this ACT Castrol title because of them. They were unbelievable, and I am very proud of how hard they worked to give us a chance to win the title”. Theetge finished 18th after returning to the race 50 laps down. He won the Championship following a bizarre set of events.
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