NASCAR announced today its 2015 schedules for the
NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour and NASCAR Whelen
Southern Modified Tour.
The
30th anniversary season of the Whelen Modified Tour
will feature 14 points races and an all-star event
across six distinguished facilities while the Whelen
Southern Modified Tour campaign will include 11
championship events at seven popular southeastern
short tracks.
The 2015 schedules feature a new event for each
tour. Connecticut’s Thompson Speedway Motorsports
Park will once again welcome the Whelen Modified
Tour for an early summer event on June 10 under the
lights while the Whelen Southern Modified Tour will
make its inaugural visit to North Carolina’s famed
Hickory Motor Speedway on Oct. 3.
“The combination of new and traditional events, and
national series companion weekends are sure to
provide NASCAR modified fans with the wheel-to-wheel
action they’ve come to know and love once again in
2015,” said George Silbermann, NASCAR vice president
for regional and touring series. “We are very
excited that historic Hickory Motor Speedway will
showcase the Whelen Southern Modified Tour for the
first time and that Thompson Speedway Motorsports
Park has returned its popular June date to the
schedule.”
There will be four Sprint Cup Series companion dates
between the two tours, which will once again come
together at Tennessee’s Bristol Motor Speedway (Aug.
19) for the seventh annual combination. The Whelen
Modified Tour is set to join the Sprint Cup Series
for both weekends at New Hampshire Motor Speedway
(July 18, Sept. 26). New Hampshire, which will
celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2015,
will also
play host to the non-points Whelen All-Star Shootout
(July 17) following the event’s successful debut in
2014. Additionally, Charlotte Motor Speedway’s
quarter mile will showcase the Whelen Southern
Modified Tour for the sixth season in a row for the
season finale (Oct. 8).
Next year’s slate for the northeast-based Whelen
Modified Tour includes the traditional
season-opening and season-closing events at famed
Connecticut circuits Thompson (Icebreaker – April
12, World Series – Oct. 18) and Stafford Motor
Speedway (Spring Sizzler – April 26, Fall Final –
Oct. 24) as well as a pair of mid-season night races
at each track (Thompson – June 10, Aug. 12; Stafford
– June 5, Aug. 7). Long Island bullring Riverhead
Raceway returns with two dates (June 27, Aug. 29)
while New Hampshire quarter-mile Monadnock Speedway
(July 25) will welcome the tour for the sixth
consecutive season.
The 11th season of Whelen Southern Modified Tour
competition will once again commence at Caraway
Speedway (March 14), and the venerable track will
have a pair of subsequent engagements (March 28,
July 4). Another celebrated North Carolina oval,
Bowman Gray Stadium, has its staple date (Aug. 1)
while popular Virginia short tracks Langley Speedway
(April 11, Sept. 5) and South Boston Speedway (April
4, Sept. 19) return with two events apiece.
The 2014 Whelen Modified and Whelen Southern
Modified Tour seasons concluded in mid-October with
Doug Coby and Andy Seuss the respective titlists.
Their accomplishments were recognized as part of the
NASCAR Touring Series Awards this past Saturday in
the Charlotte (North Carolina) Convention Center at
the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
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2015 NASCAR WHELEN
MODIFIED TOUR SCHEDULE
Date / Track / Location
4/12 - Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park, Thompson, Conn.
4/26 - Stafford Motor Speedway, Stafford, Conn.
6/5 - Stafford Motor Speedway, Stafford, Conn.
6/10 - Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park, Thompson, Conn.
6/27 - Riverhead Raceway, Riverhead, N.Y.
7/17 - New Hampshire Motor Speedway (All-Star Shootout), Loudon,
N.H.
7/18 - New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Loudon, N.H.
7/25 - Monadnock Speedway , Winchester, N.H.
8/7 - Stafford Motor Speedway, Stafford, Conn.
8/12 - Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park, Thompson, Conn.
8/19 - Bristol Motor Speedway (combination with NWSMT), Bristol,
Tenn.
8/29 - Riverhead Raceway, Riverhead, N.Y.
9/26 - New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Loudon, N.H.
10/4 - Stafford Motor Speedway, Stafford, Conn.
10/18 - Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park, Thompson, Conn.
SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE
2015 NASCAR WHELEN SOUTHERN MODIFIED TOUR
SCHEDULE
Date / Track / Location
3/14 - Caraway Speedway, Sophia, N.C.
3/28 - Caraway Speedway, Sophia, N.C.
4/4 - South Boston Speedway, South Boston, Va.
4/11 - Langley Speedway, Hampton, Va.
7/4 - Caraway Speedway, Sophia, N.C.
8/1 - Bowman Gray Stadium, Winston-Salem, N.C.
8/19 - Bristol Motor Speedway (combination with NWMT), Bristol,
Tenn.
9/5 - Langley Speedway, Hampton, Va.
9/19 - South Boston Speedway, South Boston, Va.
10/3 - Hickory Motor Speedway, Newton, N.C.
10/8 - Charlotte Motor Speedway (.25-mile), Concord, N.C.
SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE |