Whelen Modified Tour 2016 Schedule Announced

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Posted by Wayne G. Barber

The 32nd season for the Whelen Modified Tour will feature nine different facilities and 17 championship races, the most for the tour since 2005. Here is a breakdown of the 2016 calendar:
• Connecticut’s Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park will once again hold the season opening and season closing events as well as two midseason races. Each of Stafford Motor Speedway’s four traditional dates also return to the famed Nutmeg State oval.
• The Whelen Modified Tour will remain a fixture on the racing card for both New Hampshire Motor Speedway NASCAR national series weekends.
• The Whelen Modified and Whelen Southern Modified Tours will return to Bristol Motor Speedway for the eighth edition of the annual combination event during the popular August NASCAR race week.
• Long Island New York’s Riverhead Raceway once again will return with events while Monadnock Speedway and New London-Waterford Speedbowl will feature one race each.
• The late spring run of consecutive Connecticut events at New London-Waterford, Stafford and Thompson returns for the second year, but is spaced out over the course of a month this time around.
• Oswego, a .625-mile oval near the shore of Lake Ontario, contested four Whelen Modified Tour races in both 1988 and 1989. Seekonk, bordering Rhode Island and its capital city Providence, held its first Whelen Modified Tour race in 1987. The .333-mile oval welcomed the tour back for five races between 2000 and 2005.Source:  Jason Cunningham, NASCAR
December 18, 2015 - 4:00pm

2016 NASCAR WHELEN MODIFIED TOUR SCHEDULE

Date	Track	Location
4/10	Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park	Thompson, Conn.
4/24	Stafford Motor Speedway	Stafford, Conn.
5/14	New London-Waterford Speedbowl	Waterford, Conn.
6/3	Stafford Motor Speedway	Stafford, Conn.
6/15	Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park	Thompson, Conn.
6/25	Riverhead Raceway	Riverhead, N.Y.
7/15	New Hampshire Motor Speedway (All-Star Shootout)	Loudon, N.H.
7/16	New Hampshire Motor Speedway	Loudon, N.H.
7/23	Monadnock Speedway	Winchester, N.H.
8/5	Stafford Motor Speedway	Stafford, Conn.
8/10	Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park	Thompson, Conn.
8/17	Bristol Motor Speedway (combination with NWSMT)	Bristol, Tenn.
8/27	Riverhead Raceway	Riverhead, N.Y.
9/3	Oswego Speedway	Oswego, N.Y.
9/10	Seekonk Speedway	Seekonk, Mass.
9/24	New Hampshire Motor Speedway	Loudon, N.H.
10/2	Stafford Motor Speedway	Stafford, Conn.
10/16	Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park	Thompson, Conn.