Qualifying: Coby Earns Spring Sizzler Pole
Third Career Coors Light Pole for 2006 Sizzler Winner
Stafford Springs, CT — Limited to just one lap during Saturday qualifying, Doug Coby took home the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Coors Light Pole Award for Sunday’s Tech-Net Spring Sizzler presented by CARQUEST at Stafford Motor Speedway.
Coby was one of four drivers limited to one qualifying lap because their spotters were late to report prior to time trials. It didn’t make a difference, however, as his lone lap of 17.985 seconds (100.083 mph) topped the rest of the 30-car field.
It was the third career pole for Coby, and first at Stafford.
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Todd Szegedy will start alongside Coby in the front row for Sunday’s 200-lap race, the second of the Whelen Modified Tour season. Szegedy posted a fast lap of 17.990 (100.056).
Row Two will be made up of the only other two drivers that registered sub-18-second laps; Bobby Santos (17.992/100.044) and Eric Beers (17.999/100.006).
Rowan Pennink, Justin Bonsignore, Ron Silk, Erick Rudolph, James Civali and Ted Christopher rounded out the top 10.
Christopher enters Sunday as the three-time defending winner of the Spring Sizzler: Stafford’s season-opening weekend. He already holds the record for most Whelen Modified Tour wins in the event with five, and has an additional triumph in the track’s SK Modified division.
The Tech-Net Spring Sizzler presented by CARQUEST is scheduled to take the green flag Sunday at approximately 3 p.m.
QUALIFYING RESULTS | POST-QUALIFYING VIDEO WITH DOUG COBY
Sources: Jason Cunningham/NASCAR WMT PR