{"id":10236,"date":"2012-07-14T09:41:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T13:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=10236"},"modified":"2012-07-14T09:41:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T13:41:33","slug":"ron-silk-takes-second-straight-whelen-modified-tour-pole-at-nhms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/ron-silk-takes-second-straight-whelen-modified-tour-pole-at-nhms\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Silk Takes Second Straight Whelen Modified Tour Pole at NHMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maineracing.com\/wp\/index.php\/2012\/04\/12\/magic-hampshire-motor-speedway\/nhms_20th\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6989\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/maineracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nhms_20th.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"nhms_20th\" width=\"200\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6989\" \/><\/a>Defending champion to start out front in Saturday\u2019s Town Fair Tire 100<\/p>\n<p>Ronnie Silk took the pole and the checkers the last time the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour was at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. He\u2019ll try to do the same this weekend after taking the pole in Friday\u2019s qualifying for the Town Fair Tire 100 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Silk\u2019s time of 29.492 seconds (129.147 mph) was nearly fourth-tenths of a second faster than Ryan Preece, who will start on the outside of Row 1 on Saturday. Doug Coby, Eric Berndt and Sprint Cup regular Ryan Newman round out the top five qualifiers.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe spent time after practice changing everything we could and the car handled real well for qualifying,\u201d said Silk, who won last September\u2019s New Hampshire 100. \u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to the race tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coby, who leads Silk by 20 points in the overall standings, has struggled at \u201cThe Magic Mile\u201d in the past, but attributes a practice session in May to his success on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe learned a lot from that session,\u201d said Coby. \u201cWe had to change some things today, but that (session) helped us out a whole lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s Town Fair Tire 100 is slated to drop the green flag at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>For more details and ticket information on events at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, or to purchase tickets to the LENOX Industrial Tools 301 and SYLVANIA 300 NASCAR weekends, please stop by our Ticket Office, visit the speedway website at www.nhms.com, or call our Ticket Hotline at (603) 783-4931.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champion to start out front in Saturday\u2019s Town Fair Tire 100 Ronnie Silk took the pole and the checkers the last time the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour was at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. He\u2019ll try to do the same this weekend after taking the pole in Friday\u2019s qualifying for the Town Fair Tire 100 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4163,45,126,112,16,14972],"tags":[6903],"class_list":["post-10236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modified","category-nascar","category-new-england","category-new-hampshire","category-nhms","category-touring-series-news","tag-ron-silk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}