{"id":20398,"date":"2016-03-25T16:25:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T20:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=20398"},"modified":"2016-03-25T16:25:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T20:25:35","slug":"mohegan-sun-to-once-again-host-thompsons-championship-awards-banquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/mohegan-sun-to-once-again-host-thompsons-championship-awards-banquet\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohegan Sun to Once Again Host Thompson\u2019s Championship Awards Banquet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ThompsonSpeedway-300x83.jpg\" alt=\"ThompsonSpeedway\" width=\"300\" height=\"83\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20167\" \/><strong>Mohegan Sun to Once Again Host Thompson\u2019s Championship Awards Banquet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(THOMPSON, CT) &#8211; Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park officials announced on Friday that the Annual Championship Awards Banquet would return to Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT on Saturday, December 17. The venue played host to the Banquet for the first time last December, bringing the annual event to a new level of excellence with music, improved trophies and the Champions\u2019 cars on display.<\/p>\n<p>Woody Pitkat, last year\u2019s Sunoco Modified champion, enjoyed having the event at Mohegan Sun as it reminded him of the past NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour banquets. \u201cIt\u2019s a great facility. We used to go there for the NWMT banquet, before it was moved down to North Carolina, and it was always a great time\u2026 It\u2019s great knowing that it\u2019s going to be back there this year.\u201d<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe banquet hosted at the Mohegan Sun Casino put on by the staff of TSMP was an amazing event,\u201d remarked 2015 Late Model Champion, Brian Tagg. \u201cMy team and I, my family, and sponsors were so grateful to be honored like we were there. It goes to show you how hard Josh Vanada and his staff at TSMP work to make sure the competitors, sponsors, teams, and families are recognized for all of their hard work and support. I am lucky enough to have been there on the maiden voyage and hope to get back there again!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year drivers and teams from all four Thompson NASCAR Whelen All-American Series (NWAAS) divisions will be invited to return to Mohegan Sun, the Official Hotel and Casino of Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park. Tickets will go on sale for the Banquet on Monday, October 24.<\/p>\n<p>The Championship season for Thompson\u2019s NWAAS season will kick off at the 42nd Annual Icebreaker, April 8-10. Thompson\u2019s own four divisions, the Sunoco Modifieds, Late Models, XtraMart Limited Sportsman and Mini Stocks, will be racing on Sunday afternoon leading up to the first championship event for the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohegan Sun to Once Again Host Thompson\u2019s Championship Awards Banquet (THOMPSON, CT) &#8211; Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park officials announced on Friday that the Annual Championship Awards Banquet would return to Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT on Saturday, December 17. The venue played host to the Banquet for the first time last December, bringing the annual [&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":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[196,1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-uncategorized","category-thompson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20398","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=20398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}