Joe Skotnicki is a longtime Whelen Modified Tour crew member, former NASCAR official and owner of the Race Of Champions Modified Series. He shared these thoughts below with us at RaceDayCT following the announcement that Mike Stefanik would be a 2021 inductee to the NASCAR Hall of Fame By Joe Skotnicki Mike Stefanik … “Michael” is an […]
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Mike Stefanik Defined An Era Of Modified Racing
June 16, 2020 by 5 Comments
Mike Stefanik made his NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour in 1985, in its very first year, when it was known as the Winston Modified Tour. Jerry Cook had stepped away from racing, and Richie Evans would perish in a racing accident at the end of the season after already clinching the championship. Together, the two Rome, […]
Advance Auto Parts To Sponsor NASCAR Weekly Series In Multiyear Agreement
June 10, 2020 by 20 Comments
Advance Auto Parts To Support Local Racing Communities Through Partnership As NASCAR Weekly Series sanctioned events begin to return at select tracks across North America, NASCAR and Advance Auto Parts (NYSE: AAP), a leading automotive aftermarket parts provider, today announced a multiyear official partnership, designating Advance Auto Parts as the series entitlement sponsor. As part […]
Q&A With NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Series Director Jimmy Wilson
June 4, 2020 by 21 Comments
The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour is set to kick off its 2020 schedule with the running of the Wade Cole Memorial 133 presented by Dunleavy’s Truck & Trailer Repair on June 21. The event, which will be contested without fans in attendance, is an addition to the 2020 Whelen Modified Tour schedule, with the originally […]
Landscape Of Connecticut Short Track Racing In 2020 Unclear Due To COVID-19 Regulations
May 30, 2020 by 49 Comments
Stafford community message boards on Facebook perked to life Wednesday with questions from town residents about a familiar sound echoing through the area. Stafford Motor Speedway hosted a private test session for some Whelen Modified Tour teams on Wednesday and the sound of high horsepower motors reverberating outward across the local area had townspeople delighted […]
Reports Indicate NHMS NASCAR Cup Series Weekend Could Be Moving To August
May 30, 2020 by 3 Comments
Two independent reports published late Friday indicate that NASCAR is expected to rescheduled the Cup Series Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 to August. Autoweek and The Athletic each reported Friday that NASCAR will release an extension of its national series schedule next week. Both outlets reported that NASCAR provided teams with the new schedule update Friday. Since […]
Green Flag For Whelen Modified Tour At Jennerstown Speedway
May 29, 2020 by 23 Comments
Last November Jennerstown Speedway general manager Bill Hribar was ecstatic to announce the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour would return to the Pennsylvania facility in 2020 for the first time in 14 years. For Hribar it was huge to get the series back to the track, but never could he have envisioned the magnitude of how […]
Quarantine Chronicles Vol. 17: Ditch Practice, Masked Racers, Empty Cupboards & Darlington Memories
May 18, 2020 by 78 Comments
So how many people watched yesterday’s NASCAR Cup Series race from Darlington Raceway and thought to themselves: “Wow, this race is really awful since they didn’t let teams have any practice”? Probably not too many people were thinking that. Was Sunday’s race at Darlington any better or any worse because Cup teams didn’t have the […]
Modified Racing Series Releases Statement On 2020 Season
May 14, 2020 by 22 Comments
On Thursday officials from the Modified Racing Series released a statement updating competitors and fans on the state of the division’s schedule for 2020 during the COVID-19 global pandemic. The Modified Racing Series had been scheduled to open its season on March 4 at Thompson Speedway. The second event for the season was scheduled for […]
Quarantine Chronicles Vol. 16: Let’s Go Racing, At Some Point, Maybe; Rambo Tank Hunter
May 12, 2020 by 43 Comments
It’s the question everyone has. THE question. Over and over and over and over again, THE question. Phone calls, text messages, e-mails, Facebook Messenger, smoke signals, Pony Express, Morse Code, tin cans & string. You know name it, someone in the last six weeks has used it to reach out and ask when will short track […]
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