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With the 2024 season for the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour set to conclude this evening, NASCAR set the table for what’s to come in 2025 this morning.
NASCAR announced its 2025 schedule for the Whelen Modified Tour today.
Beyond some movement of particular dates of events, the schedule remains almost unchanged from the 2024 slate of races for the series.
Every track that was on the schedule for the 2024 season returns to the schedule for 2025, and one new track has been added. The schedule remains at 16 events.
Monadnock Speedway in Winchester, N.H., which hosted three events in 2024, will host two events next season, opening the door for another New Hampshire short track to be added to the schedule for 2025.
White Mountain Motorsports Park in North Woodstock, N.H. will host the series on Saturday June 28. The Whelen Modified Tour has run at White Mountain two times previously. Both of those events were run in 2020 as part of a restructured Whelen Modified Tour schedule that season due to COVID closures. The two White Mountain events in 2020 were not part of the originally announced 2020 schedule. Justin Bonsignore and Doug Coby won the White Mountain events in 2020.
The Whelen Modified Tour will once again make three stops in Connecticut in 2025, all at Thompson Speedway. The division will run as part of the track’s Icebreaker weekend on Sunday March 30. The series will return to Thompson on Wednesday Aug. 6. And Thompson will host the division’s penultimate event for 2025 on Sunday October 12 as part of the track’s annual Sunoco World Series weekend.
The Whelen Modified Tour has run events at Thompson Speedway every year but one since the division’s inception in 1985. The 2021 season was the only year since 1985 that there was not a Whelen Modified Tour event at Thompson Speedway. The track has hosted the series a record 155 times.
The 2025 schedule will kick off for the fourth consecutive year at New Smyrna (Fla.) Speedway. The season will end for the series on Saturday Oct. 18 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway.
One of the biggest changes for the 2025 schedule will see movement for the series at North Wilkesboro (N.C.) Speedway. The Whelen Modified Tour made its first visit to the legendary facility in September of 2023. The series returned to the track for the Brushy Mountain Powersports 150 last Saturday.
In 2025 the Whelen Modified Tour compete at North Wilkesboro Speedway on Sunday May 18. The event will run that day before the NASCAR Cup Series All-Star event that day at North Wilkesboro.
“I’m pretty excited about the 2025 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour schedule,” Joey Dennewitz, Managing Director of NASCAR Regional told RaceDayCT. “Starting off at New Smyrna like we have in the past few years, which is extremely meaningful to many of our teams and our competitors, right down the straight from the birthplace of NASCAR, is kind of cool and getting everybody out of the Northeast and into some warmth is fun. But the real shine is the North Wilkesboro Cup Series combo race. That kind of doubleheader adds attention to the Tour in front of a packed house of enthusiast short tracks fans. That’s tough to beat. … There were some other variations here. Just trying to keep streamlining it, add some variety and give the teams a good cadence through the season.”
Another change involving the series as part of a Cup Series weekend card comes at Richmond (Va.) Raceway. The Whelen Modified Tour has run at Richmond as part of a spring Cup Series weekend in late March or Early April annually since 2022. With the spring event gone at Richmond for 2025, the series will shift over to Richmond’s August Cup Series weekend and return to the track for an event on Thursday Aug. 14.
As had previously been announced, the series will also see a return to fall racing at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, with that track’s Cup Series weekend moving to September. The division will run its 77th event since 1990 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Saturday September 20.
Riverhead (N.Y.) Raceway, another legendary cornerstone facility in the division’s history, will host events on Saturday June 14 and Saturday Sept. 6. The Whelen Modified Tour has competed at Riverhead Raceway every season of its existence besides 2020, when COVID restrictions would not allow for scheduled events to take place.
The Whelen Modified Tour will return to Monadnock Speedway for events on Saturday May 3 and Saturday July 19. Other events on the 2025 schedule include visits to Seekonk (Mass.) Speedway (Saturday May 31), Lancaster Motorplex in Lancaster, N.Y. (Saturday July 12), and Oswego (N.Y) Speedway (Saturday Aug. 30).
“The schedule is a 3-D chess piece puzzle that [series director Jimmy Wilson] does a fantastic job working through,” Dennewitz said. “The guiding light there is a number of factors. One of them being, where do our competitors want to race and what race tracks want us and want to promote the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour.”
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crystal ball going to need some polishing next year.
Zig13,
We’ll be smashing the Crystal Ball against a concrete wall in en exclusive live event to be announced later today.
Beat me to it. Combining the schedule prediction that had Bristol. Bowman Gray and Langley on it for a total for 7 races south of the Maxon Dixon line as well as football picks you’re on a losing streak big guy.
Too bad about Bowman-Gray. Probably a popular choice to exclude it but still would have liked to see the spectacle in the stadium.
3 races at Thompson and nothing at Stafford? Did I miss something?
Ct MOD Fan,
The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour hasn’t raced at Stafford Speedway since 2021.
Yes, you missed something.