{"id":17167,"date":"2014-10-24T03:01:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T07:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=17167"},"modified":"2014-10-24T02:04:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T06:04:43","slug":"mission-accomplished-bonsignore-wins-vmrs-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/mission-accomplished-bonsignore-wins-vmrs-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Accomplished Bonsignore Wins VMRS Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ART-BARRY-AND-JUSTIN-BONSIGNORE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17168\" src=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ART-BARRY-AND-JUSTIN-BONSIGNORE-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"ART BARRY AND JUSTIN BONSIGNORE\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ART-BARRY-AND-JUSTIN-BONSIGNORE-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ART-BARRY-AND-JUSTIN-BONSIGNORE.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Thompson, CT. &#8212; From day one, 26-year old Justin Bonsignore, of Holtsville, NY, let it be known he intended to compete for a championship. He wanted to produce another title for noted car owner\/builder Art Barry, of Preston CT.<\/p>\n<p>Bonsignore made it happen Saturday night when he wheeled the Spearpoint Racing\/Spafco Modified to a 14th place finish in the VMRS 75-lap season finale at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park, Thompson, CT. The result. The 2014 Valenti Modified Racing Series Championship.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bonsignore finished 19-points ahead of last years champion Rowan Pennink.<\/p>\n<p>The win was car owner Art Barry\u2019s second VMRS championship<br \/>\nBarry won the title with then driver Jon McKennedy in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>A humbled Bonsignore knows how special it is to win for a well-respected car owner who has been putting winning race cars on the track for over 60-years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels amazing, especially to do it with Art and Kenny with such a long history of modified racing. It\u2019s nice to be the driver to get them a second title with the series,\u201d said the new champion.<\/p>\n<p>Bonsignore continued, \u201c It was an amazing year. A couple of hiccups along the way made it a little closer than we would have liked. 11 podium finishes in 17 races and a championship. I\u2019m very proud of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bonsignore summed it up,\u201d These guys do a great job preparing the car.. I just show up and drive it. I am very honored and very proud to win a championship with Art and Kenny Barry. Everybody leaves Kenny out of it and shouldn\u2019t. He\u2019s been around a long time. He orchestrated that whole repair during the red flag. He did a really good job. He\u2019s a big part of this team. I\u2019m very proud to be a part of the Spafco family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bonsignore and the Barry team will be at a different podium in December. Accepting the hardware and accolades that goes with being champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thompson, CT. &#8212; From day one, 26-year old Justin Bonsignore, of Holtsville, NY, let it be known he intended to compete for a championship. He wanted to produce another title for noted car owner\/builder Art Barry, of Preston CT. Bonsignore made it happen Saturday night when he wheeled the Spearpoint Racing\/Spafco Modified to a 14th [&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":[196,41,4716],"tags":[15637],"class_list":["post-17167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-thompson","category-valenti-modified-series","tag-vmrs-title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17167","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=17167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17169,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17167\/revisions\/17169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}