Stafford Springs, CT — Doug Coby, who won the CARQUEST Tech-Net Spring Sizzler last month at Stafford, will look to make it two-for-two when the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour returns to Stafford next Friday night for the 22nd Annual TSI Harley-Davidson 125. Of Coby’s 3 career Whelen Modified Tour wins, 2 have come in the Spring Sizzler. That fact, combined with Coby’s two Stafford track championships, has the Milford native excited about the prospects of making it two in a row at Stafford.
“The car was awesome at the Sizzler, so I would expect the car is going to be awesome again next Friday night,” said Coby. “The night race will be different, even though it’s only a couple of weeks after the Sizzler, the track is always different in the May race from the Sizzler. The last three Sizzlers the pole time has been in the 17’s and in May it’s usually drops off to 18.2, 3, or 4, and it’s an impound race, so we’ll have to qualify the way we’re going to race. We all make a lot of adjustments for time trials to click off a good lap, but we probably make less adjustments for time trials, so that might help us a bit. You see certain guys who qualify up front for the two-day shows that don’t qualify up front for the one-day shows."
After splitting time between two teams last season, Coby will be behind the wheel of Wayne Darling’s #52 Furnace and Duct Chevrolet for the entire 2012 schedule. Although they raced together last year, the Coby/Darling pairing is still a relatively new combination and Coby says that the team chemistry is one of the key reasons why they are sitting second in the Whelen Modified Tour standings heading into the TSI Harley-Davidson 125.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour will headline the racing action at Stafford (Conn.) Motor Speedway on Friday, May 25 with the TSI Harley-Davidson 125. Below is a statistical look at the performance of selected drivers on the Tour:
Selected Driver Highlights:
Eric Beers (No. 45 Horwith Freightliner/John Blewett Inc. Ford)
• Has two wins, nine poles and 73 top 10s in 173 career NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour starts.
• Has two poles and 19 top 10s in 38 career starts at Stafford Motor Speedway with a best finish of second in the 2008 Spring Sizzler.
• Finished 24th in the Stafford Spring Sizzler in April.
Jimmy Blewett (No. 76 John Blewett Inc./Ling Trucking Chevrolet)
• Has five wins, a pole and 28 top 10s in 88 career NWMT starts.
• Two of his five career wins have come at Stafford and he’s got 10 total top 10s in 25 appearances.
• Finished fifth at Stafford in the 2012 Spring Sizzler.
Justin Bonsignore (No. 51 M3 Technology Chevrolet)
• Has a win, three poles and 18 top 10s in 35 career NWMT starts.
• Has two poles and three top 10s in nine races at Stafford. Best finish at the track came last time out – sixth – in April’s Spring Sizzler.
• Has finished in the top 10 in 10 of his last 13 starts overall.
Thompson, CT — Even though he had what he described as an, “ill-handling car,” Rowan Pennink of Huntington Valley, Pa., was able to withstand several challenges from Richard Savary to go on and win the 75-lap Valenti Modified Racing Series on Sunday night at Thompson International Speedway.
It was the fifth win over-all and second on the series at Thompson for Pennink who became the race’s third and final leader when he passed Ted Christopher in turns three and four on the 30th lap.
Christopher, who led from lap 16 when he passed Todd Owen, driving for series organizer Jack Bateman, dropped out shortly thereafter.
“I simply couldn’t get my car to turn,” Pennink said. “That allowed Richard (Savary) to get under me in the turns. It’s tough to do that here (get up and under someone from the bottom). He was able to get up alongside of me. He was trying to move me out of the way, but I wasn’t going to let him do that.”
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Brockton, MA – Northeastern Midget Association Lites Division driver Carl Medeiros Jr. believes that the elusive first win is very close. “It is very important,” says Medeiros, “not only for me but for the whole team.”
A “stand alone” show at Star Speedway, Saturday night, June 2, is next for the Lites. Medeiros, completing his sophomore year at Diman Regional High in Fall River, MA drives a Focus-powered Stealth owned by his dad.
Medeiros, who turns 16 on July 24, comes to Star off an impressive showing at NEMA’s Diamond Anniversary event at Waterford Speedbowl. After overcoming almost a half-lap deficit, he tangled with the leader and spun in the closing laps. Recovering to finish sixth, he was the only Lites car in the 13-second range.
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