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RETURN TO
CONCORD MEANS RETURN OF BONSIGNORE TO NS SHOOTOUT
Whelen Mod Tour Driver Hoping to End Season on High Note |
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last time the North-South Shootout was held at the
fast half-mile Concord Speedway in North Carolina in
2010 was also the last time Justin Bonsignore raced
the event. Now the race is headed back to Concord,
and now Bonsignore is headed back to the North-South
Shootout.
The 2014 Valenti Modified Racing Series champion
will be piloting his M3-Tech No. 51 Modified that he
usually races on the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour at
Concord in the John Blewett III North-South Shootout
125 for the Dunleavy's Truck and Trailer Repair
Tour-Type Modifieds on Saturday, November 7.
"It's a great race track and as soon as they made
the switch to go there we were all definitely
gung-ho to go back," said Bonsignore. "It's a place
that's fun even in practice when you're out there by
yourself and it produces great racing as well. I'm
pretty excited."
Bonsignore said the uniqueness of the
triangular-shaped race track is what makes him and
so many other Modified drivers love the place.
"Every corner is different and you just have to
attack the race track the way you drive it," he
said. "Getting through that dogleg flat out when
you're sideways and battling other cars is just a
lot of fun. It's a driver's track."
A win at the North-South Shootout would be a great
way for any driver to finish out the season, but
especially for Bonsignore after the tough season he
had in 2015.
Bonsignore had just about everything go wrong this
year. Parts failures, crashes, you name it. But when
things clicked, he and his team were as fast as
ever, as shown by their strong second-place run in
the NWMT season finale at Connecticut's Thompson
Speedway Motorsports Park.
The 27-year-old Long Island driver said that the
finish at Thompson won't necessarily give the team
any momentum, but it certainly helps him out as he
prepares for the North-South Shootout.
"This season if it could go wrong it did, and you
start to doubt yourself at times," he said. "So to
run as strong as we did at Thompson makes me have
confidence in myself and reminds me that I haven't
forgotten how to contend for wins."
More than that, it's the North-South Shootout. It's
a win that every Modified driver wants to add to
their resume. Bonsignore was a contender for the win
in the 2010 edition of the event, but mechanical
issues ended that prematurely.
"It would be amazing," said Bonsignore. "It's a
marquee event. Any time you can win a race with any
driver's name attached to it, especially John
Blewett's, that puts a little extra to it. You
always want to win big events. I've been lucky
enough to win the Richie Evans memorial at New
Smyrna, so this would be cool to add another one
like that with John's name."
Entry forms for the $10,000-to-win John Blewett III
Dunleavy's Truck and Trailer Repair Tour-Type
Modified North-South Shootout event, as well as the
$5,000-to-win Mr. Rooter SK Modified event, are
currently available by visiting
www.northsouthshootout.net..
Practice day kicks off the 13th Annual North-South
Shootout on Thursday, November 5. Additional
practice and qualifying will take place on Friday,
November 6, with the North-South Shootout main
events taking the green flag on Saturday, November
7. The features will consist of a 125-lap race for
the Pro All-Stars Series South Super Late Models, a
60-lap event for the Southeast Trucks, 75-laps for
the Limited Late Models, the Mr. Rooter 50 for the
SK Modifieds and the John Blewett III Memorial 125
for the Dunleavy's Truck and Trailer Repair
Tour-Type Modifieds.
For more on the 13th Annual North-South Shootout,
visit
www.northsouthshootout.net.
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Source:
51 Sports / North-South Shootout
Posted:
October 27, 2015 |
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