Gardiner, ME — With the NASCAR Regional Touring Series being as competitive as they are, it isn’t often that a championship is decided before the final race of the season. In the case of the NASCAR Featherlite Modified Tour as it enters its final 1997 event, the General Mills/Ukrop’s Fall 150 at Richmond International Raceway on November 1, Mike Stefanik of Coventry, R.I. will start the race as the newly crowned 1997 NASCAR Featherlite Modified Tour Champion.
Stefanik’s accomplishment is significant when you consider that Stefanik actually missed one NASCAR Featherlite Modified Tour event during the season on June 14 at Jennerstown, Penn., yet he still managed to wrap up the title with one race remaining on the schedule.
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STEFANIK CAPTURES DUAL NASCAR TITLES
Gardiner, ME — Nobody would be surprised to see a blue shirt with a big red “S” when Mike Stefanik of Coventry, R.I. takes off his driving suit. After all, he has just accomplished a rare feat, winning two NASCAR Regional Touring Series Championships in the same year – the NASCAR Busch North Series, Grand National Division and the NASCAR Featherlite Modified Tour.
Stefanik’s concurrent titles are a modern-era NASCAR record, and it has only occurred one other time in NASCAR’s 50-year history. Lee Petty of Randleman, N.C. picked up NASCAR Grand National (now NASCAR Winston Cup) and NASCAR Late Model Short Track Championships in 1958. The NASCAR Late Model Short Track Series ran from 1951 through 1959.
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