{"id":16732,"date":"2014-08-29T04:23:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T08:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=16732"},"modified":"2014-08-29T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T13:15:00","slug":"budweiser-modified-nationals-highlights-thunder-sound-speedbowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/budweiser-modified-nationals-highlights-thunder-sound-speedbowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Budweiser Modified Nationals highlights Thunder on the Sound at Speedbowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/123.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16735\" src=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/123.jpg\" alt=\"123\" width=\"297\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>Waterford Speedbowl roars into Labor Day weekend with the biggest pay day of the year for its NASCAR All-American Series SK Modified<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> division on Saturday, August 30.\u00a0 The 18<sup>th<\/sup> annual Budweiser Modified Nationals SK-150 takes center stage with a $5,000 winner\u2019s prize and a total posted race purse of greater than $20,000.\u00a0 A banner field of competition is expected to turn out once again for the event.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The original big money SK Modified<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> race, the Modified Nationals debuted at the Speedbowl in 1997 and was the brainchild of track owner and promoter Terry Eames and his staff. \u00a0According to Eames, \u201cIt\u2019s a celebration of our weekly competitors. They deserve the attention.\u00a0 They deserve the pay day.\u00a0 They are the back bone of what we do and it\u2019s only fitting we honor them with a big event\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Over the nearly two decade history of the event, there\u2019s been no shortage of drama and memorable finishes.\u00a0 Steve Chowansky won the inaugural edition and quickly set a tone that has prevailed for the better part of two decades \u2013 the home track stars taking on outside competition looking to swoon in for a big check. \u00a0It\u2019s created a dynamic unique to the Modified Nationals event and helped stage much of the drama.<\/p>\n<p>Arguably, the biggest names in SK Modified<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> racing have filled the list of winners.\u00a0 Keith Rocco checkered the race last year in what many consider as his first official win in the big money event.\u00a0 In 2012, controversy saw Rocco begin the race, but rain came and Rocco was under suspension by the time the race resumed two weeks later.\u00a0 Todd Ceravolo subbed for Rocco and finished off the win after a late race tangle between leaders Justin Gaydosh and Rob Janovic Jr. \u00a0In 2011, Woody Pitkat came out on top after a wild conclusion saw Ceravolo run out of fuel in the final laps. \u00a0Jeff Pearl won the race in 2007 with late race heroics after drama unfolded among the lead cars. \u00a0Seven time track champion Dennis Gada is a two-time event winner. \u00a0Ron Yuhas Jr. also won the event twice, along with Eric Berndt.\u00a0 Ted Christopher championed the race in 1999.\u00a0 Nearly each of the previous seventeen editions has had a plot twist, keeping the race in rare air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waterford Speedbowl roars into Labor Day weekend with the biggest pay day of the year for its NASCAR All-American Series SK Modified\u00ae division on Saturday, August 30.\u00a0 The 18th annual Budweiser Modified Nationals SK-150 takes center stage with a $5,000 winner\u2019s prize and a total posted race purse of greater than $20,000.\u00a0 A banner field [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":[4140],"tags":[4146],"class_list":["post-16732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-waterford","tag-speedbowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16732","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}