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2018 SCHEDULE
ANNOUNCED FOR NASCAR WHELEN MODIFIED TOUR
Season Opener Returns To Myrtle Beach; New Hampshire
Extra-Distance Event On Tap |
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NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour will take the green flag
on the 2018 season at South Carolina’s Myrtle Beach
Speedway in March, and the schedule will feature 16
championship points races at nine different venues.
The champion will once again be crowned at Thompson
Speedway Motorsports Park, as the .625-mile hosts
the 56th Sunoco World Series of Speedway Racing on
Sunday, Oct. 14.
The calendar spotlight’s some of the northeast’s
iconic short tracks, includes three fast southern
venues and features the longest distance race in
tour history as the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour
takes center stage at New Hampshire Motor Speedway
in September for a 250-lap showdown.
“Year in and year out, the NASCAR Whelen Modified
Tour puts on some of the most exciting and
pulse-pounding action in racing, and we are looking
forward to the 2018 season,” said Jim Cassidy,
NASCAR vice president of racing operations. “We’ve
made some tweaks in the dates to alleviate some of
the schedule congestion and better help teams work
through the season. In 2017, we saw six drivers
enter the final race of the season with a shot at
the title, and we’re eager to watch that high level
of competition continuing next season.”
The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour’s return to Seekonk
Speedway in Massachusetts has been moved from August
to June 2. The date change means the tour will only
have one instance where it will race three weeks in
a row, and will have at least a weekend off between
races on 10 different occasions.
Last year, the tour began its new unified era with
the season opener at Myrtle Beach. South Carolina’s
semi-banked half-mile oval held its first NASCAR
event in 1958, and will once again host the opener
on Saturday, March 17.
Earlier this summer, NASCAR and New Hampshire Motor
Speedway announced the tour will be the headliner on
Saturday, Sept. 22 as part of a special event that
will also include the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East and
NASCAR Pinty’s Series.
The NASCAR Whelen Modifeid Tour will also visit New
Hampshire in July with a championship points race as
well as the annual invitational, non-points All-Star
Shootout. The tour will also be part of the national
series weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway in August.
After Myrtle Beach, the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour
will return to New England for two of the staple
weekends of the early racing season: The 44rd Annual
Icebreaker at Thompson and the 47th Annual NAPA Auto
Parts Spring Sizzler at Connecticut’s Stafford Motor
Speedway.
The tour will make four stops at Thompson, and three
at Stafford.
The tour schedule also features two races at Long
Island’s Riverhead Raceway, a bullring known for
their high-intensity, close-quarters Modified
action, as well as return trips to New York’s Oswego
Speedway and Virgina’s Langley Speedway in Hampton.
The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour television broadcast
schedule on NBCSN will be announced at a later date.
2018 NASCAR WHELEN MODIFIED TOUR SCHEDULE
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Date |
Track |
Location |
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17-Mar |
Myrtle Beach Speedway |
Myrtle Beach, S.C. |
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8-Apr |
Thompson Speedway Motorsports
Park |
Thompson, Conn. |
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29-Apr |
Stafford Motor Speedway |
Stafford, Conn. |
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2-June |
Seekonk Speedway |
Seekonk, Mass. |
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13-June |
Thompson Speedway Motorsports
Park |
Thompson, Conn. |
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23-June |
Langley Speedway |
Hampton, Va. |
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7-July |
Riverhead Raceway |
Riverhead, N.Y. |
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20-July |
New Hampshire Motor Speedway* |
Loudon, N.H. |
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21-July |
New Hampshire Motor Speedway |
Loudon, N.H. |
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3-Aug |
Stafford Motor Speedway |
Stafford, Conn. |
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8-Aug |
Thompson Speedway Motorsports
Park |
Thompson, Conn. |
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15-Aug |
Bristol Motor Speedway |
Bristol, Tenn. |
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1-Sep |
Oswego Speedway |
Oswego, N.Y.. |
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8-Sep |
Riverhead Raceway |
Riverhead, N.Y. |
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22-Sep |
New Hampshire Motor Speedway |
Loudon, N.H. |
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30-Sep |
Stafford Motor Speedway |
Stafford, Conn. |
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14-Oct |
Thompson Speedway Motorsports
Park |
Thompson, Conn. |
*non-points, special events
SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE
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Source:
ModifiedTourMedia / NASCAR
Posted:
November 22, 2017 |
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