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Where: Stafford Motor Speedway
What: NASCAR Whelen All-American Series
When: Friday
Schedule: NAPA SK 5K (laps to be determined by fan vote), 40-lap NASCAR Whelen All-American Series SK Modified, 30-lap Late Model, 20-lap SK Light Modified, 20-lap Limited Late Model, 15-lap DARE Stock and 20-lap Legends. Grandstands open: 5:15 p.m; Qualifying: 6:15 p.m; Features: 7:15 p.m.
More: The 10th event of the season at Stafford. … Stafford celebrates Girls Night Out with $10 general admission for ladies. The track also will host its Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund track walk prior to feature racing. … Ted Christopher won last week’s NAPA Auto Parts SK 5K at Stafford. It was the second consecutive SK Modified victory at Stafford for Christopher, who snapped a nearly two-year winless streak in the division on July 24. … Other SK Modified winners this year include reigning division champion Rowan Pennink (three wins), Woody Pitkat (two wins) and Eric Berndt. … Christopher leads Pennink by two points in the standings. Keith Rocco is third in the standings, 46 points behind Christopher. … Michael Wray got his first victory of the season in last week’s Late Model feature. … Tom Fearn (three wins), Kevin Gambacorta (two wins), Michael Bennett and Pitkat are the other winners in the division this year. … Fearn leads second place Wray by six points in the Late Model standings with Gambacorta 22 points off the lead in third. … Joey Ferrigno scored his first win of the season in last week’s SK Light Modified feature. … Other SK Light Modified winners this year include Tony Membrino Jr. (four wins), Daniel Wesson (two wins) and Joey Graf. … Membrino leads Ferrigno by six points in the SK Light Modified standings. Jay Goff is third, 48 points off the lead. … Duane Provost got his first win of 2016 in last week’s Limited Late Model feature. … Other winners in the division this year include Paul Arute (three wins), Albert Saunders, Cliff Saunders, Justin Bren and Robert Bloxsom III. … Provost has a four point advantage over second place Albert Saunders in the standings with Arute 12 points off the lead in third. … Trace Beyer got his second consecutive victory in last week’s DARE Stock feature. … Other winners this year include Tyler Trott (two wins), Brandon Michael, Ryan Fearn, Alexandra Fearn and Johnny Walker. … Michael leads the standings by six points over Beyer with Walker in third, eight points off the lead. … For more information visit the Stafford Motor Speedway website.
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Where: New London-Waterford Speedbowl
What: NASCAR Whelen All-American Series
When: Saturday
Schedule: 35-lap NASCAR Whelen All-American Series SK Modified, 25-lap Limited Sportsman (2), 25-lap SK Light Modified, 25-lap Mini Stock and 20-lap Legends. Grandstands open: 3 p.m.; Qualifying: 4 p.m.; Features: 6:30 p.m.
More: The ninth event of the season at the New London-Waterford Speedbowl. … The Speedbowl was off last weekend. … The Speedbowl celebrates it’s second Town Night of the season. Anyone that can show proof of residency in towns beginning the with the letters A through M will get free general admission. The promotion was originally scheduled for June 11, but that night’s event was rained out. The N through Z Town Night was held on June 18. … The Limited Sportsman division takes center stage Saturday with twin 25-lap features. … Ted Christopher got his first victory of the season in the SK Modified feature in the last event at the Speedbowl on July 2. … Other winners in the division this year include Keith Rocco (three wins), Joey Gada, Tyler Chadwick, Dylan Izzo, Paul Kusheba IV and Diego Monahan. … The top-five in the SK Modified division standings are separated by just 16 points. Gada holds a seven-point lead over second place Dennis Perry with Rocco and Chadwick tied for third, 13 points off the lead. Rob Janovic Jr. is fifth, 16 points behind Gada. … Andrew Molleur scored his first career SK Light Modified victory on July 2 at the track. … Tony Membrino Jr. has won the other four SK Light Modified events at the track this year. … Membrino holds a 19 point lead over second place Corey Barry in the SK Light Modified standings with Brett Gonyaw in third, 30 points off the lead. … Monte Gibbs got his third victory of the season in the last Limited Sportsman race at the track. … Other Limited Sportsman division winners this year include Al Stone III (three wins) and Chris Meyer. … Stone leads second place Meyer by 34 points in the standings with Charles Beal 44 points off the lead in third. … Wayne Burroughs Jr. got his second consecutive and third victory overall in the last Mini Stock event at the track. … Other winners this year include Charles Canfield, Chris Ivory, Dave Trudeau, Sean Caron and Jordan Hadley. … Ken Cassidy Jr. leads Trudeau by seven points in the standings with Burroughs in third, 11 points behind first. … For more information check the New London-Waterford Speedbowl website.
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What: New Hampshire 301 weekend
Where: New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Loudon, N.H.
When: Friday – Sunday
Schedule
Friday: Whelen Modified Tour Whelen All-Star Shootout (non-points exhibition); Qualifying for the Sprint Cup Series (TV NBCSN, 4:30 p.m.) and K&N Pro Series East; Practice for the Sprint Cup Series (TV, NBCSN, 11:30 a.m & 3:30 p.m., XFINITY Series (TV, NBCSN, 1 p.m. & 3 p.m.), Whelen Modified Tour and K&N Pro Series East.
Saturday: Whelen Modified Tour New England 100; XFINITY Series Auto Lotto 200 (TV NBCSN, 4 p.m.), K&N Pro Series East Granite State 70; Qualifying for the XFINITY Series (TV, NBCSN, 11 a.m.) and Whelen Modified Tour; Practice for the Sprint Cup Series (TV, CNBC, 10 a.m; NBCSN, 12:30 p.m).
Sunday: Sprint Cup Series New Hampshire 301. (TV, NBCSN, 1:30 p.m.)
More: The New Hampshire 301 marks the 43rd Sprint Cup Series event hosted at New Hampshire Motor Speedway since 1993. … Kyle Busch is the defending champion of the New Hampshire 301. Carl Edwards won the pole for last year’s event. … Matt Kenseth won last year’s September Sprint Cup event in Loudon. … Twenty four different drivers have won Sprint Cup events at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, led by Jeff Burton with four victories. … Nine active drivers have multiple wins at NHMS: Kurt Busch, Jimmie Johnson, Ryan Newman, Tony Stewart each have three victories. Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth, Clint Bowyer, Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano each have two. … NHMS will play host to a pair of NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour events over the weekend. … The third Whelen Modified Tour All-Star Shootout takes place Friday. The non-points, invitational exhibition event will be a 35-lap race with a 30-minute time limit. The race will be run in two segments, with a competition caution at about lap 20. … The starting lineup will include 20 drivers from both the Whelen Modified Tour and Whelen Southern Modified Tour. The starting lineup will be determined by a blind draw. … Woody Pitkat is the defending champion of the All-Star Shootout. … The Whelen Modified Tour returns to the track Saturday for the running of the New England 100. … The event is the seventh of 17 Whelen Modified Tour events this season and the first of two events this year at NHMS. The division returns to Loudon for the F.W. Webb 100 on Sept. 24. … Todd Szegedy is the defending champion of the New England 100. He won the event last year driving for Mystic team owner Bob Garbarino. Szegedy, who has four career victories at NHMS, will run Saturday’s event for the Rob Fuller Motorsports/LFR Chassis team. Szegedy is running part-time with the series this year and will be making his second start of the season. … Reigning Whelen Modified Tour champion Doug Coby won the September event at NHMS last year. … Saturday’s race marks the 64th appearance at NHMS for the Modified Tour. … There have been 20 different race winners at the track, led by Mike Stefanik with eight victories. … Coby, who has two victories this season, has three career wins at NHMS. … Donny Lia (two wins), Ron Silk (two wins) and Ryan Newman (two wins) are the only other active Whelen Modified Tour drivers with multiple wins at NHMS. … With 242 points, Coby holds a 17-point lead over Max Zachem in the Whelen Modified Tour standings. Justin Bonsignore (216 points), Donny Lia (215 points), Timmy Solomito (214 points), Jimmy Blewett (207 points), Matt Swanson (203 points), Bobby Santos III (201 points), Rowan Pennink (200 points) and Brendan Bock (199 points) round out the tightly packed top-10 for the series. … For more information check the New Hampshire Motor Speedway website.
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