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Bobby Santos Picks Up First Win at Magic Mile

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Photo - Kyle Magda

Photo – Kyle Magda

 

Bobby Santos made a last-lap pass on Ted Christopher and held off charges from behind to win Saturday’s Sunoco 100.

Santos never won at New Hampshire Motor Speedway until Saturday after a previous best finish of fourth. three times at the Magic Mile.

“I’ve had good cars here and I felt like I had a shot winning here in the past,” Santos said.   “We’ve been good first part of the race and second part of the race, we have the car we wanted then something would happen or we’d missed it the second half of the race.”

The win for the Massachusetts driver ranks high up there in his Whelen Modified Tour career.

“It’s definitely the biggest Modified win of my career,” he added.  “For this team and this is just our Super Bowl and these guys work so hard.  From whatever happens here on out the rest of the season, we won at Loudon so it’s pretty awesome.”

Doug Coby fought his way back from a shock issue in the first half of the race to finish second and almost winning again at Loudon.

“I was ninth and seventh with ten (laps) to go,” Coby said.  “The way the restarts shook out, we ended up a couple good runs and seen myself fourth on the green-white-checkered and kinda hoping Ted (Christopher) would of taken the top and pushed him into the lead and had a nice set-up for the last lap, kind of what Bobby (Santos) had.”

Ted Christopher came home in third and just came up short of his sixth Loudon win.

“For a green-white-checkered, you can think of all the scenarios,” Christopher said.  “It was one of the cars we put together out of our stable we ran years and years ago.  We re-did it and I was pretty happy with it and it’s something we can build on.”

Christopher could taste victory again at Loudon, especially the last few weeks at Riverhead Raceway in New York on June 28 and Friday night in a SK Modified race at Stafford Motor Speedway.

This was the third and tour-leading win of the season for Santos.  The other two wins in 2014 came at Stafford Springs and Waterford.

The Sunoco 100 was part of two days of Whelen Modified Tour racing action, starting with the inaugural Whelen All-Star Shootout on Friday and won by Sprint Cup Series driver Ryan Newman.

The race is on delayed television broadcast on Friday, July 18 at 2 p.m. ET on FOX Sports 1.

Sunoco 100 Top-Ten

1. #44 Bobby Santos

2. #2 Doug Coby

3. #13 Ted Christopher

4. #7 Ryan Newman

5. #16 Ryan Preece

6. #51 Justin Bonsignore

7. #22 Tommy Barrett, Jr.

8. #70 Andy Seuss

9. #6 Ron Silk

10. #12 Chuck Hossfeld

 

NASCAR Whelen Modified Sunoco 100 Preview

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The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour will close out the weekend at New Hampshire Motor Speedway with the Sunoco 100 Saturday.

The series stays in the Northeast as they visited Riverhead Raceway in New York two weeks ago.  It was a weekend of firsts, as John Beatty Jr. won his first pole and Eric Goodale captured his first Modified win. Continue reading →

NASCAR Nationwide and More Series News and Notes

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CaptureChampionship Contenders Share Common Goal – Winning

Showcasing the exceptional talents of this season’s championship contenders on one of NASCAR’s most competitive stages has appeared almost seamless for the top-three in Nationwide Series standings.

Chase Elliott, Elliott Sadler and Regan Smith all have posted wins, are only separated by three points in the standings and have average finishing positions in the top-ten. The feat for some has seemed almost impossible – yet these three have faced the insurmountable with ease.  Continue reading →

NASCAR Next 2014-15 Class Announced At Richmond

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The 2014 NASCAR Next class consists of: Back row, from left, Gray Gaulding, Jesse Little, Ryan Gifford, Ryan Preece, Brandon McReynolds, Austin Hill and Erik Jones; and front row, from left, Dylan Lupton, Kenzie Ruston, Cole Custer, Ben Rhodes and Ruben Garcia Jr. Photo - Todd Warshaw/Getty Images

The 2014 NASCAR Next class consists of: Back row, from left, Gray Gaulding, Jesse Little, Ryan Gifford, Ryan Preece, Brandon McReynolds, Austin Hill and Erik Jones; and front row, from left, Dylan Lupton, Kenzie Ruston, Cole Custer, Ben Rhodes and Ruben Garcia Jr.
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When Chase Elliott took the NASCAR Nationwide Series checkered flag at Texas Motor Speedway earlier this month, he joined fellow rising star Kyle Larson in the 2014 win column.

Before their headline-making victories on one of the sport’s biggest stages, though, Elliott and Larson were ‘next’ – the next in a wave of young talent making its way up the NASCAR ladder. Continue reading →

FansChoice.tv Featuring NASCAR Whelen and Mexico Toyota Series’

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Mike Stefanik is the winningest driver in Whelen Modified Tour history at Thompson, and the defending Icebreaker victor. With a repeat this week, Stefanik would match Ted Christopher's record for Icebreaker wins with four. Photo - Getty Images

The 30th season of the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour begins this weekend with the Icebreaker 150 presented by Town Fair Tire at Thompson (Conn.) Speedway Motorsports Park on Sunday, April 6. Thompson played host to the inaugural Whelen Modified Tour event on March 31, 1985; a race appropriately won by the “King of the Modifieds,” NASCAR Hall of Famer Richie Evans. For the 2014 campaign, fans can expect to see 23-year-old NASCAR Next driver and 2013 Tour champion Ryan Preece try to become the first driver since Tony Hirschman (2004-05) to successfully defend the title.

After a rainout at Caraway on March 29, the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour returns to action at South Boston (Va.) Speedway on Saturday, April 5. Similar to his 2013 season, three-time defending champion George Brunnhoelzl III enters Saturday’s South Boston 150 with two top-five finishes through the season’s first two events. A run of three straight wins began with the South Boston 150 a year ago.

The NASCAR Mexico Toyota Series returns to the track Saturday, April 5 at Mexico City for its second race of the season – and the first in Mexico. Daniel Suarez won the opener at Phoenix International Raceway in February. The 22-year-old NASCAR Next and Drive For Diversity driver has two straight series wins, dating back to last year’s finale in Mexico City.

FansChoice.tv will feature live streaming of the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series events from Evergreen Speedway in Monroe, Wash., Langley Speedway in Hampton, Va., and South Boston on Saturday, in addition to Thompson on Saturday and Sunday. Both the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour race at Thompson and NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour race at South Boston will also be streamed on the site.