Altamahaw, NC — After two weekends of rainy weather that has postponed the last two NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour events, the drivers will attempt to return to action this weekend in a rare night of back-to-back races. Defending Tour champion L.W. Miller (No. 36 John Baker Plumbing & Utilities Pontiac) is eager to get back to the action this Friday night in the Whelen Southern Modified Tour 150 presented by DMC Auto Exchange at Ace Speedway.
Just as quick as Friday night’s race at the 4/10th-mile Altamahaw, N.C. short track is over, the drivers and crews will pack up only to return to action less than 24 hours later in the Whelen Southern Modified Tour 150 at Caraway Speedway in Asheboro, N.C.
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The NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour race slated for Saturday night at Southern National Raceway Park has been postponed due to inclement weather. The new date for the Night of Modifieds 150 will be announced at a later date.
The Whelen Southern Modified Tour returns to action in the Whelen Southern Modified Tour 150 presented by Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet next Saturday night at Greenville-Pickens Speedway in Greenville, S.C.
Sources: NASCAR WSMT PR.
Asheboro, NC — Miller won four of the six races at Caraway last year en route to the championship. He won the season opener last year despite a flat front tire in the closing laps. This time around, he had his hands full with NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour veteran Ted Christopher.
“Last year we won with a flat tire and a dominant car; this year we had all our tires but we weren’t so dominant,” Miller said. “I knew Teddy was good. I had to keep it on the bottom.”
Christopher, who won the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour openers in 2005 and 2006 at Caraway, settled for second, followed by Robert Loftin, Tim Brown and Bobby Grigas III.
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For fans, drivers and teams of the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour, their off-season misery will turn to bliss about 8 p.m. this Saturday night at Caraway Speedway by the four most famous words in motorsports: “Gentlemen, Start Your Engines!”
After those words are echoed though the loudspeakers surrounding the famed .455-mile Caraway short track, the field of 26 drivers will start their racing engines to kick off their season in the Whelen Southern Modified Tour 150.
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The biggest question heading into the 2008 NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour season is really rather simple. Can anybody dethrone champion L.W. Miller?
To do so, they’ll need to find a way to beat Miller at Caraway Speedway. The 34-year-old from Duchore, Penn. dominated the .455-mile oval in Asheboro, N.C.. He overcame a late-race flat tire to win the season opener and posted three more wins and a fifth-place.
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Hampstead, NH — A new chapter in the racing stories of both Andy Seuss and the Advance Auto Parts / Riggs Racing team will begin with this weekend’s NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Series season opening race at Caraway Speedway (NC). Seuss will be making his first start for the storied team, while the team will feature Seuss as their latest in a long list of notable drivers.
“It’s a whole new era that will hopefully last for awhile,” said Seuss. “The closer it gets, the more excited I get about going out and racing.”
Seuss will drive the #47 Modified in a full season of WSMT racing after making occasional starts in the series over the past few seasons with his family-owned team. The 21-year-old racer from New Hampshire isn’t going to his new team alone either.
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L.W. Miller had a busier than usual offseason. But don’t expect the defending NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour champion to complain one bit about all the activities he’s been involved with since clinching the title at Caraway Speedway last November.
That’s because Miller’s hectic winter schedule is a direct result of his first NASCAR championship. Miller will attempt to defend that title when the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour opens the season Saturday, March 22 back at Caraway Speedway in Asheboro, N.C.
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Ryan Preece and the Preece Racing team of Kensington, Connecticut, have announced a busy schedule of events for the 2008 racing season. The talented teenager looks to build upon a successful rookie season in 2007 in the NASCAR Modified division. It will all start with the 42nd Annual World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing at New Smyrna Speedway in Florida beginning on Friday, February 8.
Preece will be doing double duty at New Smyrna. He will be racing his family-owned #40 Modified in the NASCAR Tour Type Modified division, featuring such top drivers as defending New Smyrna champion Eric Beers, Ted Christopher, Jimmy Blewett, Chuck Hossfeld and Charlie Pasteryak. He will also pilot at Florida/IMCA Modified owned by his grandfather, Bob Judkins. Judkins is a legendary figure in Modified racing and a Hall of Fame member who now races at New Smyrna on a weekly basis.
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20-Year-Old is Chosen to Drive #47 Advance Auto Parts Modified for Riggs Racing
How do you replace a king? That was the question that Riggs Racing faced this off-season after the long-time driver of their Advance Auto Parts Dodge Modified, Junior Miller, decided to scale back his racing schedule. Together, Miller and the Riggs team won two of the last three NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour championships.
Success was nothing foreign to either party, the Riggs team has won nearly 100 Modified races through the years with drivers like Miller, Jamie Tomaino, Paul Radford, Johnny Bryant, Tony Jankowiak, “Puddin” Swisher and Tim Arre. Miller had also won more races than anyone could count, having earned the title “King of the Southern Modifieds” in the process.
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Daytona Beach, FL — Whelen Engineering’s relationship with NASCAR racing continues to grow and flourish, evidenced by the fact that it was announced last Friday that the company is extending its entitlement sponsorship for both of NASCAR’s Modified Tours – the NASCAR Whelen Modified and NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tours – through 2016. Whelen is a Connecticut-based company that is the leading manufacturer of automotive, aviation, industrial and public emergency lighting and warning systems, including the caution lights on the track and pace cars at NASCAR events and has been involved in sponsoring NASCAR’s Modified touring division since 2004.
“When Whelen became the entitlement sponsor of the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, I stated that we were in this for the long run and now we have formalized that commitment,” said Phil Kurze, vice president of motorsports for Whelen Engineering. “The Modified Tours are very special to everyone at Whelen. We think these Tours provide some of the most exciting and competitive racing NASCAR has to offer and we are proud to be associated with both of them. Our support of grassroots racing is very strong and we have demonstrated that by providing NASCAR with the longest running entitlement sponsorship agreements for any NASCAR Series.”
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Tradition Continues For NASCAR’s Oldest Division
Daytona Beach, FL — The Modified Tours have always been an integral part of NASCAR racing, dating back to the first race in NASCAR history in 1948. As NASCAR celebrates 60 years of racing and 60 years of Modified champions, the 2008 schedules for both the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour and NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour enable the series to race at some of the best short tracks in America and revisit some of the roots of the sport.
“The schedules for the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour and NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour are very strong. They encompass new markets and position both series well for the future,” said George Silbermann, NASCAR’s managing director of racing operations. “With the support of Whelen Engineering, a terrific group of track promoters and a strong field of competitors, we’re looking forward to continued excitement and close racing throughout the season.”
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Winston-Salem, NC — NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour champion L.W. Miller was crowned the 2007 champion on Sunday night at the Benton Convention Center in downtown Winston-Salem.
Miller captured the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour championship by a mere 25 points over Tim Brown, while Burt Myers was third in the final 2007 standings.
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Asheboro, NC — NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour driver Brian Loftin won the battle on Saturday night by scoring a dominating victory in the Whelen Southern Modified Tour 150. It was L.W. Miller, however, that won the season-long war capturing the 2007 Whelen Southern Modified Tour championship.
It was Loftin’s second straight victory from the pole position at Caraway and he did it in convincing fashion by leading 138 laps and taking the win over Tim Brown who finished second in both Saturday night’s race as well as the championship race.
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Daytona Beach, FL — After a six-month stretch of competition that has included close to 2,000 laps of intense racing action, the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour championship will be decided this Saturday night in the Southern Modified Tour 150 at Caraway Speedway.
There are only two Whelen Southern Modified Tour drivers – L.W. Miller and Tim Brown – that have a mathematical chance of winning the championship at the Asheboro, N.C. short track.
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Asheboro, NC — NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour driver Brian Loftin did something Saturday night that no other driver has been able to do the last five races at Caraway Speedway – beat L.W. Miller.
Loftin dominated the Whelen Southern Modified Tour 150 on Saturday night to score his fifth career Whelen Southern Modified Tour win which ended a five-race winning streak at Caraway for the current championship leader.
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NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour driver L.W. Miller is likely to have a few sleepless nights over the course of the next two weeks as the final two races of the season are set to be settled.
The reason the Mooresville, N.C., driver will be a bit worried is because he is the current Whelen Southern Modified Tour championship leader with a 55-point cushion over second-place Tim Brown. L.W. Miller is 77 points ahead of Burt Myers in third and 101 points ahead of two-time and defending Whelen Southern Modified Tour champion Junior Miller in fourth.
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HTML clipboardKenly, NC — NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour driver Tim Brown has been on a roll as of late, scoring his second win in the last 12 days in convincing fashion on Saturday night at Southern National Raceway Park.
It was Brown’s third career Whelen Southern Modified Tour win – and second of the 2007 season – by a three second margin over runner-up Frank Fleming.
“I tell you what – I love this race track,” Brown said. “Last year when we came here we were real good and had a shot at both the win and the championship until a lapped car got in our way. This race was a lot like Ace a few days ago because we had them covered. We knew we had the car to beat when we unloaded it. About five laps into the race I knew we had something for them and we did.
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Two-time and defending NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour champion Junior Miller isn’t used to being in the position of having to play catch-up as far as the title race is concerned.
Yet heading into Saturday night’s Southern National 150 at Southern National Raceway Park in Kenly, N.C., ‘The King of the Southern Modifieds’ is in the position of being on the outside looking in as to whether he can win his third straight Whelen Southern Modified Tour championship. Junior Miller is currently fourth in the standings and 106 points behind current championship leader L.W. Miller (no relation) with only three races remaining.
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Asheboro, NC — NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour driver L.W. Miller didn’t win the 2007 championship on Saturday night at Caraway Speedway, but the Mooresville, N.C. resident took a big step forward to reaching his title hopes thanks to his victory in the Whelen Southern Modified Tour 150.
It was L.W. Miller’s fifth win of the season and his fifth straight victory at Caraway dating back to last season. The victory allowed L.W. Miller to pad his Whelen Southern Modified Tour championship lead with only three races remaining.
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Daytona Beach, FL — The drivers and teams of the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour will enjoy a little break before getting right back to racing with Saturday night’s 150-lap event at Caraway Speedway.
The Whelen Southern Modified Tour is two races into a three-race run that spans just seven days.
The journey began on Saturday at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway in a combination race with the Whelen Modified Tour and followed with Monday’s 150-lapper at Ace (N.C.) Speedway.Now the Whelen Southern Modified Tour is awaiting a return to racing action at Caraway in the Whelen Southern Modified Tour 150.
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Altamahaw, NC – NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour driver Tim Brown scored the victory on Monday afternoon in front of a packed grandstand at Ace Speedway for his first win of the 2007 season.
Brown led the final 82 laps and beat second place driver L.W. Miller by more than half a second.
It was Brown’s second career Whelen Southern Modified Tour victory and it came before an emotional pit crew that consists of several family members.
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Martinsville, VA — When the Made In America Whelen 300 takes the green flag Saturday night at Martinsville Speedway there will be at least three races going on.
Of course, there’s the race to the checkered flag and the storied Martinsville Speedway trophy – the grandfather clock that goes to the winner.
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Winston-Salem, NC — Officials with NASCAR and Whelen Engineering were on hand Saturday night at Bowman Gray Stadium as the new championship trophy for the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour was unveiled.The unique trophy was presented just before the drivers’ introduction for the Advance Auto Parts 199.
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