Thursday, August 21, 2008
Penalties Cloud Championship at BGS
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(Bowman Gray Stadium, Winston-Salem, NC) The final official points standings for Bowman Gray Racing are in. Congratulations to the champions: Tim Brown, Ronnie Clifton, Ryan Nelson, and Johnny Burke.
For their actions during the season finale on August 16, 2008, Burt Myers and Junior Miller have been penalized by NASCAR. Section 12-4-A of the 2008 NASCAR Rule Book allows penalties for “Any Member who performs an act or participates in actions deemed by Track Officials as detrimental to stock car racing or to NASCAR.”
Both competitors will be put on probation for the entire 2009 season at Bowman Gray Stadium, and both competitors must submit a $1,000.00 performance bond before any competition in the 2009 season at Bowman Gray Sta...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Todd Peck Picks Up First Career Victory
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by Skip Wall
It didn’t take long for young driver Todd Peck to start enjoying the the new Super Car Stock Car Series. In fact, it was only about three races before he picked up his first ever victory in a stock car.
Peck of Glenville Pa. scored his first ever victory in the up and coming series this past Saturday at Ona Speedway in Ona WV.
Not bad for a driver who qualified third, led the whole race and on a track that he never even raced on.
“How sweet it is” said a jubilent Peck in victory lane. “This has been a long time coming” says the young winner who also has been racing in the NASCAR Camping World East Series this year....
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
DEI Inc. Names Hutchens VP of Competition
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MOORESVILLE, N.C. (Aug. 12, 2008) – Dale Earnhardt Inc. has named NASCAR veteran Bobby Hutchens vice president of competition. Hutchens, who previously served as general manager of Earnhardt-Childress Racing Engines after a long tenure with Richard Childress Racing, will oversee all competition efforts at Dale Earnhardt Inc., including its four Sprint Cup teams.
Hutchens’ new position came as the result of a joint decision between DEI and RCR. The championship-winning NASCAR racing organizations have a long history of successful collaboration including, among others, ECR Engines and the RAD aerodynamics program that also included Andy Petree Racing....
Monday, August 11, 2008
Brown Notches Sixth 2008 Victory at Bowman Gray
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by Loren Pinilis
(Bowman Gray Stadium, Winston-Salem, NC) As the season draws to an end at Bowman Gray Stadium, every lap carries an extra bit of tension. That was true on Saturday, especially for the start of the first race for the Farm Bureau Insurance Modified Series. Burt Myers of Walnut Cove qualified on the pole, besting Tim Brown for the third time in the 2008 season.
Brown, a resident of Cana, Va., started on the outside pole. With only 25 white-knuckled laps until the checkered flag waved in the first race, Myers and Brown knew that the start would be the deciding moment. But during that crucial instant, the #1 car of Myers...
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
"Hurricane" Harrison Weathers Thru A Storm In Win
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by Skip Wall(Coeburn VA)-If you try hard enough, then the rewards will follow sooner or later. That has been the goals, so to speak, for West Virginia driver Jody “Hurricane” Harrison this past weekends winner at Lonesome Pine International Raceway.
Harrison outlasted rivals Ryan Miller and female driver and crowd favorite, Megan Reitenour in winning his first Super Cup Stock Car Series race, much less any other race for that matter.
Harrison won the A&G Coal Company 100 presented by Rush Enterprises over a field of 12 cars this past Saturday in Coeburn VA.
“I knew this day would come” says a gleaming Harrison who dri...
Monday, August 4, 2008
Loftin pulls away in Advance Auto Parts 199
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by Jason MitchellWINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Brian Loftin had one of the most successful drivers at Bowman Gray Stadium behind him. And he kept him there all night.
Loftin (No. 23 L&R Transmission/QMF Solutions Chevrolet) led every lap en route to winning the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour's Advance Auto Parts 199 at Bowman Gray. Burt Myers ran second for the entire race, which was extended to 202 laps by a green-white-checkered finish.
Myers (No. 1 JRC Investments Ford) had won two of three tour races at the historic .25-mile oval and has three titles in the track's weekly Modified division.
"It seemed like every...
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Tear-Filled Win for Brown at Bowman Gray
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(Bowman Gray Stadium, Winston-Salem, NC) On July 19, Tim Brown and his crew were having fun and celebrating their win in the first 25-lapper for the Farm Bureau Insurance Modified Series. Less than two weeks later, one of Brown’s longtime crew-members, Jerry Boger, lost his life to pancreatic cancer.
“Two weeks ago, we didn’t know he was sick. He was down there having fun, and we won the race that night. Every time I went to the hospital, that’s what he’d say – ‘at least I won the last race with you.’ I never dreamed that’d be the last race with him,” said Brown on Friday night at Bowman Gray Stadium.
Brown took the pole for the 50-lapper on Friday night for the Farm Bureau Insurance Modified Series and declared that he would ...
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Myers Family Tradition Reigns Supreme At Bowman Gray Stadium
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by Jason MitchellThere have been three NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour races atthe famed Bowman
Gray Stadium and there has been one common theme at the conclusion: Somebody with the last name of Myers has been standing proud in Victory Lane.
In the first Whelen Southern Modified Tour race at Bowman Gray in 2005, it was Burt Myers (No. 1 JRC Investments Ford) scoring the victory. One year later in 2006, Jason Myers (No. 4 Moorefields Trantham Enterprises/ DMZ / RH2 Ford) scoring his first and only Whelen Southern Modified Tour victory. Last year at the famed .250-mile track, it was Burt Myers taking the victory af...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Wednesday Night Modified Madness
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If you're into the Whelen Southern Modified Tour or the Bowman Gray Stadium modifieds, then Wednesday night you want to be tuned in to Southern MotoRacing or Real Racin USA radio.
Wednesday Night Modified Madness is presented by Advance Auto Parts and gets you ready for the Advance Auto 199 weekend at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston Salem NC.
Qualifying is Friday night for the Whelen Southern Modified Tour. Also scheduled is a 50 lap race for the Bowman Gray Stadium featured weekly Modified series, Legends cars, Bandalero cars and the vintage modifieds.
Admission to these races are only 1.99 and coupons can be picked up from your local Advance Auto Parts.
Saturday night plays host to the annual Advance Auto 199, a Whe...
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Bittersweet Victories at Bowman Gray Stadium
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by Loren PinilisBurt Myers and Brent Elliott dedicate wins to Brian Pack.
(Bowman Gray Stadium, Winston-Salem, NC) Although the crowds shouted just as loudly, the cars were just as powerful, and the adrenaline rush of Modified racing action was just as intense – something just didn’t feel quite right on Saturday at Bowman Gray Stadium.
On Friday afternoon, Brian Pack, driver of the number 81 Modified, lost his life in a tragic motorcycle crash. Still reeling from the news of his passing, competitors organized to honor their fellow driver by displaying decals in remembrance of him. The night began on a somber note as Pack’s #81 ...