Saturday evening as a large crowd looked on, three NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series features were contested with 2025 Riverhead Raceway championships hanging in the balance for all three classes prior to the Whelen Modified Tour Eddie Partridge 256. Austin Beers of Northampton, Pa. would collect his first career Riverhead WMT victory when he paced Ron Silk of Norwalk. Ct. and Justin Bonsignore of Holtsville to the checkers. Beers now holds a 13-point championship lead over Bonsignore with two WMT events remaining at Thompson and Martinsville in the coming weeks.
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Kyle Ellwood Scores Second Riverhead Raceway NASCAR Modified Triumph, John Beatty Jr. Three-Peats As Modified Champion
Kyle Ellwood of Riverhead notched his second NASCAR Modified victory of 2025 when he passed John Beatty Jr. of Merrick with twenty laps remaining in Saturday’s 50-lap feature event at Riverhead Raceway. Beatty would have the last laugh though when he sewed-up his third consecutive NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series Modified championship with his runner-up finish. Beatty joins Charlie Jarzombek (1976-1978) and Don Howe (1993-1995) as the only drivers to earn three Modified championships in succession.
Kyle Ellwood Steers New Modified Combination To Riverhead Raceway Victory Sunday
During the winter months Kyle Ellwood’s INEX Legend Race Car owners Eric Lutz and his son Chance decided to add a NASCAR Modified to their 2025 Riverhead Raceway plans with Ellwood at the wheel. Sunday, in just their third start the new combination scored the 50-lap NASCAR Modified victory, the ninth of Kyle’s career. A Saturday rain out implemented the new rain date policy announced by management during their schedule release.
Dominating Performance Nets Kyle Ellwood Sweep Of Celebrating Chris Young Twin 49’s At Riverhead Raceway
The pairing of NASCAR Modified talent Kyle Ellwood of Riverhead and car owner Ken Matlach came about first week of July when Dillon Steuer could not run the Matlach Motorsports car due to dirt racing commitments. Saturday the new pairing dominated the Celebrating Chris Young Twin 49’s setting fast time and then winning both feature events for Ellwood’s second and third victories of 2023. By sweeping the two races, Ellwood earned $1,000 from the Highmark Building Efficiency Clean Sweep bonus.
Ellwood, Triola, Lawrence & Warren Find Riverhead Raceway Victory Lane Saturday
Prior to the Miller Lite 200 Salute to Mike Ewanitsko WMT event, four Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series divisions took to Riverhead Raceway for some exciting action. Kyle Ellwood of Riverhead scored his second Eagle Auto Mall Crate Modified victory of the season just one week after triumphing in the annual Baldwin, Evans & Jarzombek 77 Tour Type Modified Memorial.