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NASCAR TOUR
TALENT JUSTIN BONSIGNORE, PAST INDOOR KART WINNER,
ENTERS LSMP INDOOR AUTO RACING SERIES FUELED BY VP;
Calabrese Also Files Entry |
Long
Island NASCAR Whelen Modified Touring Series
competitor Justin Bonsignore is the latest driver to
enter the Len Sammons Motorsports Productions (LSMP) Ironton
Telephone Allentown Indoor Races presented by Future
Homes set for Saturday, January 2, 2016 at the PPL
Center.
Bonsignore 27, has one previous Indoor TQ Midget
start, at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall where he
drove as a teammate to TQ favorite Ted Christopher.
Bonsignore is a past winner in LSMP Indoor action,
at Providence, R.I. That win was in a Champ Kart
race, however.
“I enjoyed the Atlantic City races last year and was
surprised at how fast I was right from the start,”
Bonsignore confided. “So when the opportunity came
along to buy a really good car, I decided to do it
and enter all of the Indoor races.”
For the 2016 LSMP Indoor season, Bonsignore will be
driving a car built by Mark Lafler, whose cars are
considered be the top of the line with many indoor
wins.
The particular Lafler is the one Patrick Emerling
wheeled in last year’s Indoor events and was
extremely fast. Bonsignore bought the car ready to
race.
“I actually picked up the car from Patrick at the
Loudon Modified Tour race,” Bonsignore said.
The Holtsville, N.Y., driver won the North-South
Shootout in Concord, N.C. for asphalt Modifieds in
his last start of 2015 and will thus bring momentum
to the three-venue, four race Indoor Series fueled
by VP Racing Fuels.
Bonsignore was ranked tenth in the 2015 NASCAR
Whelen Modified Tour standings despite winning two
Tour races, both at Riverhead Raceway, his home
track. He finished third in 2014 NWMT and won the
VMRS Modified Series crown the same year, managing
to juggle the demands of competing in two Series
successfully.
Bonsignore intends on returning to the elite NASCAR
Whelen Modified Touring Series in 2016 with the No.
51 Modified owned by Ken Massa and will also race in
selected Tour Type Modified races driving Art
Barry’s No. 21.
The Long Islander remained undecided as to whether
or not he will enter the Champ Kart races scheduled
for the Atlantic City and Trenton indoor events.
‘I’d like to but I’ve been spending a lot of time
getting the TQ ready,” Bonsignore said. “But if
somebody wanted a driver for a Champ Kart, I would
probably do that.”
Also recently entering the Ironton Telephone
Allentown TQ Midget race was David Calabrese.
Calabrese, a native of Toms River, N.J., who now
calls Mooresville, N.C., home, has raced on the
NASCAR Southern Modified Touring Series for the past
two years. This past summer, he won a Modified
feature at the fabled Bowman-Gray Stadium in
Winston-Salem, N.C.
Bonsignore and Calabrese are among nearly 80 TQ Midget
entries for the first Allentown Indoor race.
Tickets for the event are selling at a rapid pace
and available exclusively through PPLCenter online,
by phone at 610-347-TIXX, or in person at the
Mealey’s Furniture Box Office located on 7th &
Hamilton St. at PPL Center.
With 80 competitors vying for only 24 spots in the
40 lap TQ Midget main event sponsored by Ironton
Telephone with Avaya, making it to the main event
will be an accomplishment. The racers that excel in
those qualifying events will be rewarded for their
efforts.
Thanks to Bob Hilbert Sportswear the driver that
circles the tight 1/10 mile concrete oval the
fastest during the afternoon time trial session will
receive a $100 cash award. Additionally, the winners
of the six TQ Midget heat races will be get some
extra cash courtesy of All American Property
Maintenance.
When the green flag drops, the powerful open-wheel
Three Quarter (TQ) Midgets with drivers from
throughout the Northeast and Canada competing will
be the headline division. Slingshots, identically
built cars that resemble Modified stock cars, will
also compete in the one-day event.
The Allentown event is part of a three race indoor
series.
Each of the competitors who will be racing in the
trio of Len Sammons Indoor Racing Series events – at
Allentown, Pa., on Jan. 2, 2016, at Atlantic City,
N.J., on Jan. 29-30, 2016 and at Trenton, N.J., on
Feb. 26-27, 2016 – will be racing to the front of
the field with VP Racing Fuel in the fuel tanks of
their cars.
For Allentown Indoor race tickets, contact the
PPLCenter online, by phone at 610-347-TIXX, or in
person at the Mealey’s Furniture Box Office located
on 7th & Hamilton St. at PPL Center in downtown
Allentown, Pa.
Tickets for the 14th Annual NAPA AUTO PARTS Atlantic
City Indoor are available from the Atlantic City
Boardwalk Hall Box office, all Ticketmaster offices
and online at
www.ticketmaster.com. To order by phone,
call Ticketmaster at 1-800-736-1420 or
1-800-745-3000 or call the Boardwalk Hall Ticket
Office direct at 1-609-348-7100.
Trenton Indoor Race tickets are available online at
www.comcastix.com or by phone at
1-800-298-4200. Tickets may also be purchased at the
Sun National Bank Center Box Office on Monday
through Friday from 10am until 5:30pm and on
Saturday from 12 noon through 4pm. All ticket prices
do not include a $2 facility charge; facility charge
increases to $5 for tickets purchased on the day of
the event.
LSMP is currently seeking additional marketing
partners for this exciting first time event,
including title sponsorship and special event
sponsors. Contact 609-888-3618 for more information.
Lap sponsorships are now available for all events,
starting with the January 2, 2016 Allentown race.
Laps are being sold at $20.00 per lap; contact Davey
Sammons at davey@aarn.com or at 609-888-3618 for lap
sponsorship purchases or for more information.
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Source:
Ernie Saxton / Ironton Telephone Allentown Indoor Races
Posted:
December 8, 2015 |
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