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Bobby Santos Picks Up First Win at Magic Mile

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Photo - Kyle Magda

Photo – Kyle Magda

 

Bobby Santos made a last-lap pass on Ted Christopher and held off charges from behind to win Saturday’s Sunoco 100.

Santos never won at New Hampshire Motor Speedway until Saturday after a previous best finish of fourth. three times at the Magic Mile.

“I’ve had good cars here and I felt like I had a shot winning here in the past,” Santos said.   “We’ve been good first part of the race and second part of the race, we have the car we wanted then something would happen or we’d missed it the second half of the race.”

The win for the Massachusetts driver ranks high up there in his Whelen Modified Tour career.

“It’s definitely the biggest Modified win of my career,” he added.  “For this team and this is just our Super Bowl and these guys work so hard.  From whatever happens here on out the rest of the season, we won at Loudon so it’s pretty awesome.”

Doug Coby fought his way back from a shock issue in the first half of the race to finish second and almost winning again at Loudon.

“I was ninth and seventh with ten (laps) to go,” Coby said.  “The way the restarts shook out, we ended up a couple good runs and seen myself fourth on the green-white-checkered and kinda hoping Ted (Christopher) would of taken the top and pushed him into the lead and had a nice set-up for the last lap, kind of what Bobby (Santos) had.”

Ted Christopher came home in third and just came up short of his sixth Loudon win.

“For a green-white-checkered, you can think of all the scenarios,” Christopher said.  “It was one of the cars we put together out of our stable we ran years and years ago.  We re-did it and I was pretty happy with it and it’s something we can build on.”

Christopher could taste victory again at Loudon, especially the last few weeks at Riverhead Raceway in New York on June 28 and Friday night in a SK Modified race at Stafford Motor Speedway.

This was the third and tour-leading win of the season for Santos.  The other two wins in 2014 came at Stafford Springs and Waterford.

The Sunoco 100 was part of two days of Whelen Modified Tour racing action, starting with the inaugural Whelen All-Star Shootout on Friday and won by Sprint Cup Series driver Ryan Newman.

The race is on delayed television broadcast on Friday, July 18 at 2 p.m. ET on FOX Sports 1.

Sunoco 100 Top-Ten

1. #44 Bobby Santos

2. #2 Doug Coby

3. #13 Ted Christopher

4. #7 Ryan Newman

5. #16 Ryan Preece

6. #51 Justin Bonsignore

7. #22 Tommy Barrett, Jr.

8. #70 Andy Seuss

9. #6 Ron Silk

10. #12 Chuck Hossfeld

 

NASCAR Whelen Modified Sunoco 100 Preview

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The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour will close out the weekend at New Hampshire Motor Speedway with the Sunoco 100 Saturday.

The series stays in the Northeast as they visited Riverhead Raceway in New York two weeks ago.  It was a weekend of firsts, as John Beatty Jr. won his first pole and Eric Goodale captured his first Modified win. Continue reading →

NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour to End Season at CMS

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Season Finale of NASCAR‘s Whelen Southern Modified Tour

with the UNOH Southern Slam 150 Thursday Night

The ground-pounding machines of the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour will race on the frontstretch quarter-mile at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Thursday. Photo - CMS/HHP

The ground-pounding machines of the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour will race on the frontstretch quarter-mile at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Thursday.
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Short-track racing fans can’t miss Thursday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The ground-pounding racing machines of the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour will take to the frontstretch quarter-mile for the UNOH Southern Slam 150 on Bojangles’ Pole Night.

West Babylon, N.Y., native, George Brunnhoelzl III, will look to wrap up his fourth NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour title in the series’ season finale, as he leads the points standings by 32 over Kyle Ebersole and 33 over Andy Seuss. Local fan favorite and 2013 Modified division track champion at Bowman Gray Stadium, Burt Myers, sits fourth in the standings. Continue reading →

NASCAR’s K&N West, Whelen Modified & Canadian Tire Series’ Back in Action

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PrintWith a Saturday date at Colorado National Speedway in Dacono, CO, the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West is back in action for the first time since June 22 at Sonoma, CA. NASCAR Next driver Michael Self has won three of the last four series events, but Derek Thorn – a two-time winner this season – has a slim three-point advantage over Self in the season standings. Cameron Hayley, also a participant in the NASCAR Next program, looks to score his first championship-event victory after starting the season off with a non-points triumph in the inaugural UNOH Battle At The Beach in Daytona. Hayley, who just celebrated his 17th birthday, has scored top-five finishes in five of six K&N West starts this season.

 

 

whelen-modified-tour4c1The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour returns to Monadnock Speedway in Winchester, NH., for a make-up date after rain doused the originally scheduled date on May 11. Defending tour champion Doug Coby collected his first win of the season in the last event on July 13 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon. NASCAR Next driver Ryan Preece has a commanding 44-point lead in the standings powered by wins in three of the last four races. The 22-year-old Preece led wire-to-wire a season ago at Monadnock.

 

 

260862The NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Mobil 1, on the heels of its two-race swing through Western Canada, heads to Autodrome St. Eustache (Quebec). It’s the series’ first visit to the .4-mile oval since July 2010.

 

 

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