by Jay | Aug 27, 2013 | Connecticut, Thompson
The final Thursday night of the 2013 racing season at Thompson Speedway could produce the most exciting racing of the season. The point standings in each of the divisions are the closest in memory with a total of 25 different drivers in a position to win one of the five NASCAR Whelen All-American Series division track championships.
In four of the five divisions, the point standings are so close that trying to determine the winners would be a dream come true for a Las Vegas odds maker. The one remaining division, the Lite Modifieds, boils down to a two-man race for the title.
The NASCAR Division 1 Sunoco Modifieds have the closest point race going into the final event of the regular season. Keith Rocco holds a mere 2 point lead over both Kerry Malone and Woody Pitkat. Todd Ceravolo is only 24 points off the pace with defending champion Ryan Preece just two points behind him. Each of these drives knows the thrill of a division championship and each will be looking to add another title to his driving resume. 2012 Rookie of the Year Dennis Perry can’t be counted out of the running, however, as he will enter the final event 36 markers off of Rocco’s total. With 50 points awarded to the winner, it is possible that any one of the six contenders could lay claim to the championship.
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by Jay | Aug 24, 2013 | Connecticut, Modified, New England, Thompson, Touring Series News, VALENTI MODIFIED SERIES
Savary Wins First VMRS Race At Thompson
Thompson, CT. – Richard Savary, of Canton, MA, won his first Valenti Modified Racing Series event Thursday night, August 22, with an impressive run in the 75-lap feature race
Savary, who started 15th in a 21-car lineup, chased race leader Rowan Pennink, of Huntingdon Valley, PA, for five laps before passing Pennink on lap 72 to go on to victory.
It was a special win for the second-generation driver who has won races in other divisions at Thompson but this was his first score in a full-blown modified.
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by | Aug 21, 2013 | Connecticut, Thompson
THOMPSON, CT. Thursday Night Thompson Thunder will be filled with action and tension this Thursday night at the Thompson Speedway. The action will come from the exciting eight-division program and the tension will be on the shoulders of the competitors in Thompson’s five NASCAR Whelen All-American Series divisions and the three visiting Touring divisions that will make up the program.
Thursday night’s lineup will feature the Valenti Modified Racing Series in a 75-lap main event. The first appearance of the VMRS came on May 19th. The rains came early and forced a cancellation for the night. Little did anyone know that in three subsequent attempts to present the VMRS, Mother Nature would step in each time to act as a spoiler.
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by | Aug 16, 2013 | Connecticut, Thompson
Thompson, CT: It was a night of repeat winners and new point leaders in Thursday Night Thompson Thunder (TNTT). Woody Pitkat led the NASCAR Whelen All American Series action with a come-from-behind win in the Sunoco Modified division. Glenn Boss, Cam McDermott, Joe Baxter, and Bill McNeil also won their division feature events. In NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour action, Bobby Santos, III dominated the action and won the extended distance Bud 150 on a green-white-checker finish.
Santos took the early lead in the Whelen Modified Tour’s Bud 150 and commanded the field until caution slowed the pace at lap 25 for a backstretch accident involving Bryon Chew and Rick Fuller. Santos continued his dominance on the restart and led by half-a-straightaway until caution came out again at lap 109. The entire field came down pit road during the caution period. Santos stalled his machine when trying to exit his pit stall allowing Todd Szegedy to beat him out and take over the lead. Santos was relegated to sixth for the restart. Szegedy’s time out front didn’t last as he went high in turn two and brushed the wall on the restart paving the way for Justin Bonsignore to lead the field. On the restart, Santos rocketed right back to the lead before caution slowed the pace again. Bonsignore got the lead back for the restart and held off Santos until lap 134 when Santos got by in the middle of turn three and four. A caution set up a lap 141 restart with Santos leading the field into turn one. Donny Lia and Rowan Pennink rounded out the top-three. Caution flew at lap 148 and set up a green-white-checker finish, but a front stretch accident quickly saw a halt to the race. Pennink got hit from behind and flipped front to back until he was back on his tires. The driver was able to walk away from the accident. The race resumed at lap 157 with Santos in the lead, and despite Donny Lia’s challenges, Santos went on to win his second of the 2013 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour season.
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by | Aug 10, 2013 | Connecticut, Thompson
THOMPSON, CT. THE Budweiser 150 at the Thompson Speedway this Thursday will prove to be an extremely important race for both current series point leader Ryan Preece and WMT defending champion Doug Coby. A mere 25 points separate the two in their battle for the 2013 championship crown.
Preece has been the dominant force on the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour this year with three consecutive wins and not a single finish outside the top 5 except for the “Tour’s” last outing at Stafford. In the closing laps of there, Preece spun and wound up finishing 16th. Coby, on the other hand, has won two of the last three events and has closed the point gap considerably. Rowan Pennink sits 39 points away from the leader with Mike Stefanik down by 56 and Ted Christopher off the pace by 58 points. With the Tour now into the second half of its season, each race gains more and more importance.
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by | Aug 8, 2013 | Connecticut, Thompson
RAIN DROPS KEEP FALLING….
THOMPSON, CT. The race program for tonight, August 8th, at the Thompson Speedway has been cancelled. The weather, for the third consecutive week, forced Thompson management to pull the plug on the scheduled race event that was to have featured the Valenti Modified Racing Series and Thompson’s five NASCAR Whelen All-American Series divisions in an evening filled with high speed, exciting competition.
The track will announce an updated race schedule and will post it on their web site. www.thompsonspeedway.com Fans are asked to click on the NASCAR logo in the upper right hand corner of the opening web page to reach the familiar Thompson site. Fans may go directly to the traditional site at www.thompsonspeedwayoval.com
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