RaceDayCT has learned that four-time NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour champion Justin Bonsignore is expected to make a return to the Monaco Modified Tri-Track Series on June 24 at Thompson Speedway with team owner Ken Massa.
RaceDayCT learned Friday morning that Bonsignore’s name was added to the entry list for next week’s Monaco Modified Tri-Track Series race at Thompson.
Bonsignore has not made a Monaco Modified Tri-Track Series start since the 2021 season when he ran full-time in the division and finished fourth in the series standings competing for team owner Jimmy Paige.
Bonsignore has 14 career Monaco Modified Tri-Track Series starts. Bonsignore and Massa were not immediately available for comment on Friday morning.
Bonsignore won the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour season opener on Feb. 7 and started the first five events of the season.
On June 4 Kenneth Massa Motorsports announced that the team would be taking time off from competing on the Whelen Modified Tour for the “foreseeable future” due to “multiple challenges involved that are outside of our own control that may possibly prevent us from competing at the level we wish.”
When Bonsignore missed the Whelen Modified Tour event on June 6 at Oxford Plains Speedway it ended a string of 245 consecutive Whelen Modified Tour starts for Bonsignore, dating back to the start of the 2010 season.
Bonsignore won Whelen Modified Tour championships in 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2024 driving for Massa. He is the second the second winningest driver all-time in the Whelen Modified Tour history with 48 victories.
Bonsignore has never won a Monaco Modified Tri-Track Series event.
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Well, it looks like owners do not want to run the NWMT.
Looks like the NASCAR tour heads might have miscalculated. American Racer tires might save the teams money, but it’s making the big teams sad, and they’ve got options if all they want to do is race on their, to borrow a DW-ism, “feel goods.”
So my question is, what will it take to get the big teams back to the tour?
Give American racer the benefit of doubt to get the issues straightened out? And if they do, how do they convince the big teams issues are corrected?
Go back to Hoosier? Probably not, as Nascar certainly looked like they wanted to move on from them for (fill in the blank here) Yeah I know, there were problems with Hoosier on the “relationship” side, so go the whispers.
Just so disappointing as this had the look of being a great year with a lot of top teams.
For those still willing to get off the couch, see you at Thompson Wednesday night. Looks like a good weather night.
The American Racer tire is saving the teams money (that’s big news). Hoosier tires were costing teams a lot of money, and most teams did not have deep pockets, to always be in the top 4 places to cover costs. The biggest issues seams be be the right front tire… if that’s the case figure out the physics of the car (some teams clearly have), and stop complaining.