{"id":2316,"date":"2010-05-17T06:12:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T11:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2010-05-17T06:12:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T11:12:50","slug":"whelen-modified-tour%e2%80%99s-glen-reen-whips-mini-sprints-at-whip-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/whelen-modified-tour%e2%80%99s-glen-reen-whips-mini-sprints-at-whip-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Whelen Modified Tour\u2019s Glen Reen &#8211; Whips Mini Sprints at Whip City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Whelen Modified Tour\u2019s Glen Reen<br \/>\nWhips Mini Sprints at Whip City<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BY MARK McKEON<\/p>\n<p>WESTFIELD, MA &#8211;  NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour competitor Glen Reen made one of his infrequent appearances at Whip City Speedway and stole the show by leading every lap of the non-stop 750 Sportsman Mini Sprint feature.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is a really fun place to race,\u201d Reen said after his victory.  \u201cThe Tour can get pretty intense and pretty cutthroat.  Here, everybody is friendly and out to have a good time.  I love racing here.\u201d<br \/>\nReen, who was the Whelan Modified Tour Rookie of the Year in 2008, drove the Alloy Wheel Repair Suzuki powered Mini Sprint owned by Rob Walendy, who also drove it in the 750cc Class A feature.  Walendy is a crew member and part time spotter on Reen\u2019s Modified team.<!--more--><br \/>\nMark McKeon finished second, trailing by nearly a furlong, with Kyle Smith on his back bumper.  Shelby Klekotka and Makayla Lucia completed the top five.<br \/>\nIn the 750cc A feature, Mike King did the only thing he could do to improve on his strong second place finish in his last outing: he led every lap in his heat and then led every lap in the feature.  King, who just a few weeks ago didn\u2019t think he\u2019d be racing at all this year, took off like a rocket and accumulated a substantial early lead in the green to checker event.  He was slowed by lapped traffic late in the race, and Phil Bessette made a late race charge, only to come up a couple of car lengths shy at the finish line.<br \/>\nJohn Virgilio, who nearly flipped his 1200cc Mini Sprint early in the evening, came back to grab the lead from Charlie Pease on lap six and held it until the checkers fell on lap 20. Last week\u2019s winner, Jon Moore, was the hard charger of the night coming from 12th to finish second.<br \/>\nMulti time NEMA Lite feature winner Anthony Nocella returned to his dirt track roots and won the 600cc Mini Sprint feature. Nocella executed an inside pass on Ryan Bigelow in turn four then set sail for victory lane.  Only a single caution flag delayed the voyage.<br \/>\nDefending 270cc Champ Seth Carlson served notice that he\u2019s mounting a spirited defense of his crown, by annihilating the competition in both his heat and the feature.  Mark Irving made a run at him, but Carlson was untouchable.<br \/>\nTwo-in-a-row-Joe Krawiec scored a decisive victory in the Quad 4 Midget feature.  Popular and talented Jim Close claimed the runner up spot.<br \/>\nRyan Nicewicz passed Brett Crowther with just three laps remaining in the Modified Lite feature to maintain his 1.00 batting average after two heats and two features so far this season.<br \/>\nIn addition to the regular program, this week at the Whip will be highlighted by a TUSA Regional Points Race for the Modified Lites and an appearance by the Modified Karts.  Whip City is Southern New England\u2019s only weekly dirt track and it\u2019s easily reached from both the Mass Pike and I-91.<\/p>\n<p>750 Sportsman &#8211; GLEN REEN, Mark McKeon, Kyle Smith, Shelby Klekotka, Makayla Lucia, Brandon Hunt, Brandon Michael, R.J. Curry, Tim Stick.<br \/>\n750cc &#8211;  MIKE KING, Phil Bessette, John Casazza, Tyler Jackson, Chris Haskell, Rob Walendy, Scott Viets, Jack Fogarty, Dan Schaubert, David Williamson, John Missale, Nikki Oullette.<br \/>\n1200cc &#8211;  JOHN VIRGILIO, Jon Moore, Peter Dance Jamie Beaudry, Charlie Pease, Jerry Sehn, Mark Taylor, Stephen Lapine, Kristin Phillips, Bill Adamsky, Joseph Szczapa, Paul Rose, Mac Guerard.<br \/>\n600cc \u2013 ANTHONY NOCELLA, Ryan Bigelow, Ricci Hirth, Greg Smith, Rich Crooker, Jim DeCambra, Chris Lenox, Dylan Campbell, Luke Greenwood.<br \/>\n270cc \u2013 SETH CARLSON, Mark Irving, Wayne Ibitz, Joe Scanlon, Frank Russo, Grant Sabo, Kurt Conklin, Phil Bessette, Bryan Russo, Tim Bertrand, Brian Boudreau, Kendall Segar, Shane Prucker, Kara Franqueza, Matt Seymour, Tara Galko, Scott Franqueza, Ben Martelle.<br \/>\n250 Youth \u2013 ALEX ADAMSKY, Brandon Hunt.<br \/>\nQuad 4 Midget \u2013 JOE KRAWIEC, Jim Close, Jamie Spalding, Jack McKeon, Jim Mossman, Tim Gallant, Denny Zimmerman.<br \/>\nModified Lite \u2013 RYAN NICEWICZ, Brett Crowther, Joe Anselmo, Roger Angers, Jr., Dale Shallow, John Durst, Tom O\u2019Malley, Casey Oullette, Rick Ashlaw, Bob Poloski.<br \/>\nKarts: Novice \u2013 TANNER CORREIA, Kerriann Adamsky<br \/>\nTurquoise \u2013 COREY LEMELIN, Dylan Irish, Spencer Brockman, Matthew McCuin, Kacie Heath.<br \/>\nJunior \u2013 RYAN IRISH, Jeffery Champagne, Nora Lemelin, Michael Langevin, Ryan Fujimoto.<br \/>\nLite \u2013 KATE LAFRENIERE, Mike Hauser, Stephen Banach, William Coons, Josh Rutola.<br \/>\nHeavy \u2013 JAKE SAPOWSKY, Bill Tack, Tim Gallant, Gary Sokoloski, Jr., David Comeau.<br \/>\nModified \u2013 ROGER FUJIMOTO, Victor Pomerleau, Scott Kalber, Paul Luntta, Rick Ashlaw, Eric Jorgenson, Michael Bray, Steve Rockwood.<br \/>\n2 Stroke \u2013 BRUCE DODGE, Ernie Whidden.<br \/>\n4 Cyl Street Stock \u2013 KEITH HOLTMAN, Stephen Banach, Brian Hohenstein, Stephanie Banach, Michael Pierce, Fred Cheney, John Forgey, Darren Sallee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whelen Modified Tour\u2019s Glen Reen Whips Mini Sprints at Whip City BY MARK McKEON WESTFIELD, MA &#8211; NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour competitor Glen Reen made one of his infrequent appearances at Whip City Speedway and stole the show by leading every lap of the non-stop 750 Sportsman Mini Sprint feature. \u201cThis is a really fun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[126,198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-england","category-whip-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316","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=2316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}