Canaan, NH. — Rowan Pennink of Huntingdon Valley, PA, takes a slim point
\nlead into Thompson Speedway, Thompson, CT., Thursday, June 16, when the Valenti
\nModified Racing Series makes the first of two visits to the famed speedway. <\/p>\n
Pennink, leads Chris Pasteryak, Lisbon, CT., by two points and Les Hinckley III, of Windsor Locks, CT., by four, entering the Thursday night program. Swanzey, NH., veteran Rob Goodenough is 22 points back, in fourth place. Nashua, NH., driver
\nNorm Wrenn sits fifth in the point standings. The top five drivers are expected
\nentries Thursday.
\n
\nThe 25-year old Pennink has a win this season at Twin State Speedway, Claremont, NH.,
\nand is a three time-series winner.<\/p>\n
Expected entries include, Louie Mechalides, Tyngsboro, MA., a 2006 winner at
\nThompson, defending and two-time series champion, Jon McKennedy, E. Chelmsford, MA., veteran Kenny Barry, Preston, CT., Sanford, ME, driver Jacob Dore, Koszela Speed Rookie of the Year contender, Timmy Jordan, Plainfield, CT., Todd Annarummo, Swansea, MA., Max Zachem, Preston, and Jack Bateman, Canaan, NH., <\/p>\n
9-time NASCAR champion Mike Stefanik, of Coventry, RI., and Eric Goodale, of Wading River, NY., have indicated their intent to enter the event.<\/p>\n
Thursday\u2019s race is the first of four qualifying races leading up to the \u201cRicky\u2019s Race for
\nKids\u201d event at Canaan Fair Speedway, Canaan, NH., July 16. That event carries a purse
\nof $36,500 for the 112-lap race scheduled. The four-race series carries it\u2019s own point fund
\nand bonus payoff. <\/p>\n
Qualifying for the VMRS gets underway at 5:00 PM with the 75-lap feature race slated
\nfor an 8:00 PM start.<\/p>\n
Additional information is available at www.thompsonspeedway.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Canaan, NH. — Rowan Pennink of Huntingdon Valley, PA, takes a slim point lead into Thompson Speedway, Thompson, CT., Thursday, June 16, when the Valenti Modified Racing Series makes the first of two visits to the famed speedway. Pennink, leads Chris Pasteryak, Lisbon, CT., by two points and Les Hinckley III, of Windsor Locks, CT., […]<\/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":[196,4163,126,41],"tags":[15809,15774],"class_list":["post-5669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-modified","category-new-england","category-thompson","tag-modified","tag-thompson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5669","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=5669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}