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 Penalties Cloud Championship at BGS

 Todd Peck Picks Up First Career Victory

 DEI Inc. Names Hutchens VP of Competition

 Brown Notches Sixth 2008 Victory at Bowman Gray

 "Hurricane" Harrison Weathers Thru A Storm In Win

 Loftin pulls away in Advance Auto Parts 199

 Tear-Filled Win for Brown at Bowman Gray

 Myers Family Tradition Reigns Supreme At Bowman Gray Stadium

 Wednesday Night Modified Madness

 Bittersweet Victories at Bowman Gray Stadium

 Southern Modifieds Loses A Great Driver And Friend

 Brown Battles Back to Defend Points Margin at Bowman Gray

 Whelen Southern Modified Races Rescheduled

 Burt Myers and Tim Brown Each Win at Bowman Gray

 Myers Risks Points For Win at Bowman Gray

 Suddreth May Be Leaving Post as Tour Director

 Junior Miller Wins After Wild Night at Bowman Gray

 Kevin Powells Goal: Get on the list

 Make-or-Break Night for Points at Bowman Gray

 The Show Must Go On- Reitenour Wins 2nd Victory of Year

 NASCAR Rainouts 4, Whelen Southern Mods 3

 Packs Make Southern Modified Tour A Family Tradition

 Burt Myers and Michael Clifton Split Modified Wins at Bowman Gray

 Will The Real Junior Miller Stand Up

 Myers Works to Stay in Points Race at Bowman Gray

 



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Thursday, August 21, 2008
Penalties Cloud Championship at BGS

(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

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


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

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


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


by Jason Mitchell

WINSTON-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

(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


by Jason Mitchell

There 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

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


by Loren Pinilis
Burt 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 ...

MORE NEWS!
Bonus Awards announced for "Brian Pack Memorial 100"

(King, NC): C & C Racing Promotions, promoters of the 6th Annual
“North – South Shootout” announced today the addition of a special $500.00 bonus
to the winner of the Inaugural “Brian Pack Memorial150” at Ace Speedway on Labor
Day, September 1, 2008. The winner of the event will receive the bonus if he
competes in the “Shootout” on November 8. Should the winner of the ASA /
Southern Modified Race Tour event at Ace decide no...

Loftin Seeks Third Straight Victory

Brian Loftin (No. 23 L&R Transmission/QMF Solutions Chevrolet) has been a man on a mission in the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour as of late. He has won the last two races including a wire-to-wire victory at Bowman Gray Stadium, in what he called the biggest win of his career.

Loftin will look to extend his streak to three in a row on Friday night in the...

Titles on the line at Bowman Gray

(Bowman Gray Stadium, Winston-Salem, NC) It all comes down to this Saturday: the final night of racing action in 2008. All four divisions will crown their champions – and with every race being worth double the points, anything can still happen.
Tim Brown enters the final event with a 28 points lead over Burt Myers in the Farm Bureau Insurance Modified Series. Myers was able to once again chip away at Brown’s points lead on Saturday. Brown w...

NASCAR Says Enough is Enough

by Skip Wall
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- In the sports world, there are many times when fans are left asking when enough is enough. Whether it's a questionable call in football, baseball or basketball, sometimes fans are left asking what in the world happened about a call or action that doesn't go their way.

It's really no different in NASCAR circles w...

Bowman Gray Driver Gets Suspension

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Aug. 6, 2008) – NASCAR has penalized Jonathan Brown, a driver who competes in the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour, as a result of a rules infraction Saturday at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Brown was found to be in violation of Section 12-4-A (actions detrimental to stock car racing; hitting another competitor’s car during a caution period) of the 2008 NASCAR rule book. The violation occurred during the ...

Gearing up for Advance Auto Parts 199

To thank all of the great fans at Bowman Gray Stadium that have supported their stores as well as Bowman Gray Racing for the past 59 seasons, Advance Auto Parts has announced two incredible offers for race fans.

Stop by participating Winston-Salem area Advance Auto Parts stores to pick up your limited-edition “60th Anniversary Bowman Gray Stadium” collectible hat. These one of kind hats have been produced to honor sixty great years of ra...

Rescheduled ASA Modified Race This Saturday

ASA Southern Modified Race Tour Returns to Dillon Motor Speedway


(King, NC): The Southern Modified Race Tour returns to Dillon Motor Speedway MVC-005Fthis Saturday night, July 19th. The event is a make-up for a tour race rained out on June 21st.

The ASA Southern Modified Race Tour features 600 horsepower, open-wheel cars weighing in at 2600 p...

Brian King Wins 2nd in row in ASA Mods



(Callaway, VA): Brian King made it two wins in two starts on the ASA Southern Modified Race tour Saturday night at Franklin County Speedway talking the win in the second annual “Kenny Minter Memorial 150” at the historic Callaway, Virginia track. Franklin County legends Paul Radford, Johnny Bryant, Hank Thomas, Joe Henry Thurman, and James “Chubby” ...

Its Ben Gordon in Kmart 250

Veteran grabs fourth win at Motor Mile


Radford, Va.—If the Kmart 250 at Motor Mile Speedway was any indication of what
the Championship Series is going to be like, race fans will be in for a treat.

Benny Gordon, the Sears Auto Center Northern Division point leader, and Mark
McFarland, the Greased Lightning Southern Division point lead...

Super Cup Stock Car Series Set To Run Kil-Kare Today

The Super Cup Stock Car Series are set to run again, this time at Kil-Kare Speedway in Xenia Ohio.
This small bullring where you have to feather the throttle to get around should be very challenging to the drivers in the Super Cup.
Daniel Johnson of Midland NC leads the way as he will be going for his third win this season. He is the only two time winner.
Battling rights for Ohio will be up for grabs for two rivals.
Megan Reitenour a...

Mikey Kile Takes Lucas Oil 200

Last-lap bump, pass puts rookie in Salem Speedway Victory Lane

Salem, Ind.—How wild was the finish of the Lucas Oil 200 presented by Touchstone
Energy at Salem Speedway? Well, consider this, Benny Gordon was running third
and figured he was in the right place on a restart with four laps remaining.

“I really thought they were going to wreck each other and I was going to get a
win,” said Gordon.

Gordon was referring...

ASA Southern Modified Rained out at Dillon

Teams set to return July 19


(King, NC): Mother Nature held all the cards Saturday night at Dillon Motor Speedway in upstate South Carolina. After a hot & steamy afternoon, P6210078 (2)showers rolled over the track during the tracks regular division qualifying and hung around through race time forcing cancell...

Brown and Elliott Split Modified Victories at Bowman Gray

(Bowman Gray Stadium, Winston-Salem, NC) Tim Brown loves the 25-lap races at
Bowman Gray Stadium – and after his performance on Saturday, it’s easy to
see why he’s a little biased.
“I just like them because you’re up on the wheel, and you’re bringing
everything you’ve got for 25 laps,” said Brown, a resident of Cana,
Virginia. And the #83 car of Brown hel...

Double Points Night Shakes Up Points at Bowman Gray

(Bowman Gray Stadium, Winston-Salem, NC) Double Points Night. Merely mentioning the words gets drivers’ stomachs churning and their adrenaline pumping.
In the Farm Bureau Insurance Modified Series, Tim Brown of Cana, Va. took victory in the first race on Saturday. Brown qualified on the pole for the fifth time in 2008 and dominated the field during the race. “This was a good night for us,” said Tim Brown. “This car was really hooked up.”...

Hutchens Narrowly Misses Points Lead at Bowman Gray



by Loren Pinilis(Bowman Gray Stadium, Winston-Salem, NC) It was so close that Bobby Hutchens could taste it. With only two laps to go in the Whelen 100, Hutchens was leading the race and on his way to a strong points lead in the Farm Bureau Insurance Modified Series. But until the checkered flag waves at Bowman Gray Stadium, you never know what w...



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