When it comes to taking steps forward in his racing career, competing full-time in a touring Modified division is ultimately the target for Danny Cates. Friday at Stafford Motor Speedway the Chaplin driver takes the first step toward that goal. Cates is on the entry for Friday’s 80-lap Valenti Modified Racing Series event at Stafford [...]
Lou Mechalides took the lead just after the halfway point and never trailed again on the way to victory in the 100-lap Valenti Modified Racing Series feature Saturday at Seekonk (Mass.) Speedway. Dwight Jarvis of Ascutney, Vt. edged Tommy Barrett Jr. of Millis, Mass. for second place. It was the seventh career Valenti Modified Racing [...]
WATERFORD – After each were involved with wrecks during the SK Modified feature on May 18 at the Waterford Speedbowl division regular Tom Abele Jr. said he wouldn’t be returning to track and fellow division regular Jeff Rocco said his team would likely be leaving too. Both returned to the track for division’s next event [...]
THOMPSON – The paddock at Thompson International Speedway was bursting with Limited Sportsman competitors Thursday evening for the first weekly show of the season at the track. One of the 32 competitors readying for a night of racing was the division’s all-time winningest driver, Larry Barnett. Barnett stopped running regularly at the track after the [...]
After the grandstands were cleared and the gates were shuttered Sunday afternoon at Thompson International Speedway following the rainout of a scheduled 75-lap Valenti Modified Racing Series event at the track, there remained optimism that a makeup for the event could be scheduled. After pulling the plug on the proceedings just before 5 p.m. Sunday, [...]
THOMPSON – The rain won Sunday at Thompson International Speedway. A light rain that began mid-afternoon showed no signs of subsiding and Thompson International Speedway officials, along with officials from the Valenti Modified Racing Series, made the decision to call off the event at about 4:45 p.m. Sunday. Thompson Speedway officials said a makeup date [...]
The Valenti Modified Racing Series points leader will be bringing not only momentum, but also mounds of confidence, when the division makes its first appearance of 2013 at Thompson International Speedway on Sunday. After two events this season for the series, Rowan Pennink is the standings leader, the most recent winner and he’s heading to [...]
Rowan Pennink opened the week with a big second place finish Sunday at Thompson International Speedway. He capped the week Saturday with victory. Pennink, of Huntingdon Valley, Pa., won the Bond Auto Spring Dash 100 Saturday at Monadnock Speedway in Winchester, N.H. It was the first Valenti Modified Racing Series victory of the season for [...]
Valenti Modified Racing Series officials are expected to announce publicly this week that drivers will be competing for a $10,000 season ending series champion’s payout. Valenti Modified Racing Series officials told team owners and drivers prior the season opening event at the Waterford Speedbowl on April 8 that they would be racing for the inflated [...]
When the Valenti Modified Racing Series runs its second event of the 2013 season Saturday at Monadnock Speedway in Winchester, N.H. the series’ second-winningest driver of all-time will not be in the lineup for the second consecutive event. Les Hinckley of Windsor Locks said Tuesday he and the Chuck Montville Racing team he drives for [...]
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