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Justin Bonsignore Looks For Another Oswego Triumph

by Lou Modestino
Justin Bonsignore Looks For Another Oswego Triumph

With the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour season down to the final six events, Justin Bonsignore and the Kenneth Massa Motorsports team will head to Oswego Speedway this Saturday night. Race 11 of the season brings the team to New York, as the Whelen Modified Tour will run 150 laps as part of the Bud Classic weekend. The event will take place on Saturday, August 31 at 8 p.m.

Bonsignore leads the Whelen Modified Tour point standings by four markers over Ron Silk and is coming off two straight podium finishes. Bonsignore has finished inside the top-five in all but two races this season in the No. 51 Phoenix Communications Inc. Modified.

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Historic Daytona Finish: Burton and Wood Brothers Triumph

by Mike
Historic Daytona Finish: Burton and Wood Brothers Triumph

Harrison Burton outdueled veteran Kyle Busch on the final lap of an Overtime finish of Saturday night’s Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway to score his first career Cup Series victory and the 100th for his Wood Brothers team.

The win earned Burton and the Wood Brothers a berth in the 10-race, championship-deciding Playoffs, which begin after next week’s Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. (more…)

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Pelkey Earns First ACT Victory in Community Bank 150 Triumph Under the Lights in Rare Saturday Night Outing at Thunder Road

by Lou Modestino
Pelkey Earns First ACT Victory in Community Bank 150 Triumph Under the Lights in Rare Saturday Night Outing at Thunder Road

Barre, VT — While a rightfully dreary forecast tattered Sunday plans for the American-Canadian Tour at Thunder Road, Mother Nature laid the groundwork for something New England race fans had been craving since last October. The 26th annual Community Bank, N.A. 150 was the first of its existence to be under the lights of the Nation’s Site of Excitement on Saturday night, and exciting it was. Thirty-nine American-Canadian Tour Late Models were whittled down to a twenty-nine car starting field for a fantastic showing at the Tour’s homebase with many storylines competing for the top spot! (more…)

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Christopher Pelkey Pockets Over $15,500 in 1st Vermont Milk Bowl Triumph

by Lou Modestino
Christopher Pelkey Pockets Over $15,500 in 1st Vermont Milk Bowl Triumph

Barre, VT — The 60th Vermont Milk Bowl presented by Northfield Savings Bank proved to be one of the most thrilling and lucrative in its hallowed history. Over $85,000 in cash and prizes will be distributed to the Milk Bowl field, not including the purses for Sunday’s three support divisions with their own iconic Mini Milk Bowls. In all, four fantastic, hardnosed and deserving racers took home those four silver bowls that truly signify as the pinnacle of any stock car racing career in the State of Vermont. (more…)

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Justin Bonsignore Heads Home To Riverhead Looking For Triumph in Ed Partridge 256

by Lou Modestino
Justin Bonsignore Heads Home To Riverhead Looking For Triumph in Ed Partridge 256

HOLTSVILLE, N.Y. – With three races remaining in the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour season, Justin Bonsignore and the No. 51 Ken Massa Motorsports team are heading back home this weekend. On Saturday, September 17, Bonsignore will compete in the Ed Partridge 256-lap race at Riverhead Raceway, as the Whelen Modified Tour honors the late track owner in a truly special event.

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Patience Pays Off For Kyle Soper En Route To Triumph At Riverhead Raceway Saturday

by Lou Modestino
Patience Pays Off For Kyle Soper En Route To Triumph At Riverhead Raceway Saturday

It was a night of high emotion, nostalgia and some good old school NASCAR Modified racing Saturday at Riverhead Raceway and when the dust settled on the annual Baldwin, Evans & Jarzombek 77 for the second year in a row Kyle Soper of Manorville sat in the winners circle. Soper using a perfect balance of patience and aggression took the lead with just five laps left in the contest from Timmy Solomito of Islip to pocket his 4th win of 2022, 28th of his career. (more…)

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Sweet is Still the ‘King of Barre’ in Fourth Community Bank 150 Triumph

by Lou Modestino
Sweet is Still the ‘King of Barre’ in Fourth Community Bank 150 Triumph

Barre, VT — With 117 cars on hand for the 63rd Season Opener at Thunder Road International Speedbowl, 17 qualifying races were needed before the four feature races took the green creating some of the best stock car racing in the United States at the ‘Nation’s Site of Excitement.’ When all the dust settled Sunday afternoon, a first time winner stood amongst hardened veterans and the ‘King of Barre’ remained on his throne.

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Triumph + Gibson – Create A One-Of-A-Kind Custom Guitar and Motorcycle For The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride

by Mike
Triumph + Gibson – Create A One-Of-A-Kind Custom Guitar and Motorcycle For The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride
Building on a shared passion for beauty, precision, and performance, and inspired by the shared historical significance of the iconic Gibson 1959 Les Paul Standard and equally iconic Triumph 1959 Bonneville T120, the outcome of this unique partnership is a stunning one-of-a-kind custom edition of today’s generation of each legendary model.

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Chasing History – Eli Tomac Goes For Record Sixth Triumph in Saturday’s 52nd Running of DAYTONA Supercross

by Mike
Chasing History – Eli Tomac Goes For Record Sixth Triumph in Saturday’s 52nd Running of DAYTONA Supercross

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (March 2, 2022) – Since its opening in 1959, Daytona International Speedway has been the site of many epic, memorable events that will live on forever. This Saturday (March 5) night after the 52nd running of DAYTONA Supercross, another chapter of iconic history could be written if Eli Tomac gets to the checkered flag first.

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Rookie Cindric Reaps Traditional Rewards After Memorable DAYTONA 500 Triumph, Starts His New Tradition

by Mike
Rookie Cindric Reaps Traditional Rewards After Memorable DAYTONA 500 Triumph, Starts His New Tradition

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Feb. 21, 2022) – A day after placing his name in Daytona International Speedway’s record book with his first career NASCAR Cup Series triumph, rookie Austin Cindric was honored Monday during a “Champion’s Celebration” inside the track’s Ruoff Victory Lane. As is customary, there were plenty of special gifts awarded only to a DAYTONA 500 Champion and his team, but then out of nowhere, Cindric began his own tradition.

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Sweet Equals Crouch with Record-Tying Fourth Vermont Milk Bowl Triumph

by Lou Modestino
Sweet Equals Crouch with Record-Tying Fourth Vermont Milk Bowl Triumph

Barre, VT — Hometown Nick Sweet capped a heavenly weekend by winning his record-tying fourth Northfield Savings Bank Vermont Milk Bowl at Barre’s Thunder Road on Sunday, October 17. After setting a track record during Saturday qualifying, Sweet won the first 50-lap segment and fought the rest of the way to his 23rd career Maplewood/Irving Oil Late Model victory and 12th ACT-sanctioned Late Model triumph.

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Nocella Storms to Another Oxford Modified Triumph

by Lou Modestino
Nocella Storms to Another Oxford Modified Triumph

Anthony Nocella came alive at the right time during Saturday night’s Modified Racing Series feature at Oxford Plains Speedway.  After spending the majority of the 75-lapper conserving, he made his charge, taking the lead from Stew McCormack in the final 20 laps and holding off a stiff challenge from Super Late Model standout Joey Doiron to take the win. (more…)

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Toyota Drivers Look To Extend Perfect Season In Friday Night’s Truck Series Race

by Mike
Toyota Drivers Look To Extend Perfect Season In Friday Night’s Truck Series Race

Last September, the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series returned to Darlington Raceway for the first time since 2011.

Ben Rhodes won last year’s event and—naturally enough, given the hiatus—revisits Darlington as the only former winner in the field this week. Rhodes also won the first two races of the 2021 season and will try to add a third victory in Friday night’s LiftKits4Less.com 200 (7:30 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). (more…)

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Can Winless Darlington Stalwarts Triumph This Week At The Lady In Black?

by Mike
Can Winless Darlington Stalwarts Triumph This Week At The Lady In Black?

In a week of contrasts that featured the unveiling of NASCAR’s sleek Next Gen Cup Series cars, Darlington Raceway hosts its immensely popular Throwback Weekend, where race teams pay homage to the past.

But while race fans will see a panoply of paint schemes dedicated to bygone heroes of the sport, drivers will be looking ahead toward the finish line—particularly those accustomed to winning who haven’t done so yet this year. (more…)

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Eric Goodale Heads To Riverhead Raceway With Early Season Championship Lead After Hot Start

by Lou Modestino
Eric Goodale Heads To Riverhead Raceway With Early Season Championship Lead After Hot Start

In the previous 64 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour races contested at Riverhead Raceway there was perhaps no more a popular winner then Eric Goodale of Riverhead when he topped the late Ted Christopher for the win June 28th, 2014. Eric who grew up roughly three miles from the historic quarter mile bullring was swarmed by family and friends after his first career WMT triumph. Saturday May 15th the 35-year old Goodale will come to the Miller Lite 200 at Riverhead as the early season WMT championship leader and is hopeful to repeat the scene from June of 2014. (more…)

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A History of Flat Track Racing

by Mike
A History of Flat Track Racing

Flat track racing is an American motorsport that gained popularity shortly after the end of WWI. It was a craze during the 1920s and 1930s where it stole the majority of the audience that was already interested in horse racing. It was much similar to board track racing that has been covered extensively in our other entries. (more…)

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