Pulling up roots to move the driver’s business and race shop to North Carolina … Melissa Fifield began her NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour career full-time in 2014 in the family owned No. 01 Modified. In her eleven years of Whelen Modified Tour racing, Melissa has missed only a few races on the tour’s schedule. The […]
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Addendum To Column On NASCAR Choice To Race The Whelen Modified Tour On A Wet Track
August 5, 2024 by 14 Comments
Not something I typically do here, but figured I’d throw this out there. There’s been a lot of good dialogue concerning the column published here early Sunday morning examining NASCAR’s decision to run the Whelen Modified Tour Nu-Way 150 Saturday on a wet track at Lancaster Motorplex. I’ve had quite a few people comment on […]
Weeping: NASCAR Looks All Wet After Ugly Whelen Modified Tour Event At Lancaster
August 4, 2024 by 12 Comments
So this much we do understand, nobody involved in putting on a big short track racing event wants to postpone that event. Nobody wants to make fans who planned to be at the track have to come back another day. Nobody wants to make teams get stuck staying a track for an unexpected extra night […]
Digging Deep With Denise: Visiting With Nate Wenzel
July 26, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Growing into A Modified Driver’s Seat … Nathan Wenzel of Granby, Mass. is a regular in the Mad Dog Modified division at Monadnock Speedway. On Saturday, July 20 Wenzel drove the No. 03 Modified hard and captured a series win. Wenzel is currently ranked second in points for the track division. Wenzel did double duty […]
Digging Deep With Denise: Visiting With Trevor Catalano
July 25, 2024 by Leave a Comment
On Saturday the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour competed at Monadnock Speedway, a paved one-quarter-mile oval track in Winchester, N.H. Twenty-one teams competed in the 250-lap feature event. Trevor Catalano of Ontario, N.Y., qualified third, started the race fifth and went forward to capture his first series victory. During the race Catalano and Stephen Kopcik made contact […]
Digging Deep With Denise: Visiting With Craig Lutz
July 25, 2024 by Leave a Comment
On Saturday the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour raced at Monadnock Speedway, a paved one-quarter-mile oval track in Winchester, N.H. Twenty-one teams were on hand to compete in the 250-lap feature event. Craig Lutz of Miller Place, NY, qualified fourth and with the luck of the draw started on the pole. Lutz held off the hard chargers […]
Column: Cleetus McFarland Brings Different, Much Needed Energy To Stafford Speedway
July 20, 2024 by 16 Comments
STAFFORD – Let’s start by saying, we understand what took place on Friday at Stafford Speedway isn’t the “short track racing” that longtime Stafford competitors and fans understand or expect short track racing to be. We get it. It doesn’t need to be explained. Understand this about life, snobbish behavior comes at all levels, it […]
Crowdsourcing To Pay Penalty Fines In Short Track Racing Sets Bad Precedent For The Sport
June 28, 2024 by 12 Comments
Would you rob a bank if you knew beforehand that if you got caught someone else would do the prison time for you? If a punishment is a deterrent to committing the illegal or prohibited act, and someone takes that punishment for you, is the punishment really a deterrent anymore? That’s the question raised when […]
NASCAR Penalty On Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Smacks Of Ugly Hypocrisy By Sanctioning Body
May 22, 2024 by 13 Comments
CLICK HERE TO VOTE: RaceDayCT Poll: Your Thoughts On The Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Penalty In The NASCAR Cup Series It was a NASCAR All-Star Race on Sunday at North Wilkesboro Speedway that proved to be a ho-hum sleeper of an event. Joey Logano led 199 of 200 laps going nearly unchallenged most of the way […]
Social Media Knee Jerk Napalming Of Short Track Racing Only Damages The Sport Further And Further
April 30, 2024 by 27 Comments
Sometimes you have to wonder, is racing the only sport where the people who claim to love it the most also seem hell bent on destroying it? What happened Sunday at Stafford Speedway was just bad all around. There’s no sugarcoating anything that led up to the NAPA Spring Sizzler 100 being postponed to May […]
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