{"id":27979,"date":"2021-05-16T08:18:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T12:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=27979"},"modified":"2021-05-16T08:18:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T12:18:20","slug":"justin-bonsignore-leads-laps-finishes-third-in-whelen-modified-tour-return-to-riverhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2021\/05\/justin-bonsignore-leads-laps-finishes-third-in-whelen-modified-tour-return-to-riverhead\/","title":{"rendered":"JUSTIN BONSIGNORE LEADS LAPS, FINISHES THIRD IN WHELEN MODIFIED TOUR RETURN TO RIVERHEAD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>JUSTIN BONSIGNORE LEADS LAPS, FINISHES THIRD IN WHELEN MODIFIED TOUR RETURN TO RIVERHEAD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Souza Media\/Kyle Souza<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NASCAR.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21379\" width=\"415\" height=\"67\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NASCAR.png 558w, https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NASCAR-300x48.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>RIVERHEAD, N.Y. &#8212; <\/strong>Justin Bonsignore came up two spots short of a fifth straight NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour win in a row at Riverhead Raceway on Saturday, May 15. The two-time series champion scored the Mayhew Tools pole in qualifying, and led the first 175 laps from the top spot &#8212; but was passed by Doug Coby, then Patrick Emerling, in the final laps.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bonsignore settled for a solid third-place finish, his second top-five in the first three races of the season driving the No. 51, Phoenix Communications Inc. machine for Kenneth Massa Motorsports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;All in all a good night, I don\u2019t know if we ran too fast of a pace at the beginning, but we just faded a little bit and Doug was the best car at the end of the race,&#8221; Bonsignore said. &#8220;He\u2019s been coming here a long time and never won \u2014 it sucks that he broke our streak \u2014 but I just have to thank Phoenix Communications and my whole team for all they do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bonsignore&#8217;s time of 11.431 seconds earned him his 15th career pole, and second at Riverhead, in Mayhew Tools qualifying. The third-place finish was his 16th top-five finish in his 19 career Whelen Modified Tour starts at his home track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next up for Justin Bonsignore will be a return to Tri Track Open Modified Series racing at Star Speedway on Saturday, May 22. For more information on Justin Bonsignore, visit JustinBonsignore.com and follow his athlete page on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUSTIN BONSIGNORE LEADS LAPS, FINISHES THIRD IN WHELEN MODIFIED TOUR RETURN TO RIVERHEAD By Souza Media\/Kyle Souza RIVERHEAD, N.Y. &#8212; Justin Bonsignore came up two spots short of a fifth straight NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour win in a row at Riverhead Raceway on Saturday, May 15. The two-time series champion scored the Mayhew Tools pole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","category-touring-series-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27980,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27979\/revisions\/27980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}