Patience Pays Off For Ryan Preece, NASCAR Whelen Bristol Race

Posted by Wayne G. Barber

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BRISTOL, Tenn. – Ryan Preece positioned himself in the right place at the right time, and took home the Bush’s Beans 150 trophy Wednesday in the annual combination race for the NASCAR Whelen Modified and Whelen Southern Modified Tours.
On a night that saw rain pause, and ultimately shorten the Bush’s Beans 150, Preece grabbed the lead on Lap 75 just before the midway break and held the position during a subsequent caution on Lap 96. As rain and severe thunderstorms loomed during track clean-up, NASCAR officials threw the yellow-checkered flag on Lap 103, sending Preece’s No. 6 TS Haulers/East West Marine Chevrolet to Victory Lane.
Promptly, during those Victory Lane ceremonies, the deluge ensued.
It marked Preece’s 15th career Whelen Modified Tour victory, and first at the famed .533-mile Tennessee oval. The Berlin, Connecticut, native’s fourth win of the campaign also moved him back into the lead in the season standings.
Coors Light Pole Award winner Woody Pitkat – who entered the day one championship point ahead of Preece – finished second after leading the majority of the first half of the race and Donny Lia joined him on the podium in third. Ryan Newman and Bobby Santos brought home the top five.
Andy Seuss, Jeff Goodale, Chase Dowling, Timmy Solomito and Patrick Emerling completed the top 10.
Seuss was the highest-finishing Whelen Southern Modified Tour entry, and received credit for a victory for that tour.
The Bush’s Beans 150 originally went green as scheduled just after 6 p.m., but Lap 2 accident that took out three potential checkered flag contenders in Justin Bonsignore, Doug Coby and Todd Szegedy proved to be the first hurdle of the evening. While under caution for clean-up, rain arrived, which forced the resumption of the Bush’s Beans 150 to after the conclusion of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event.
The Whelen Modifieds returned to green flag action nearly five hours later just after 11 p.m.
The Bush’s Beans 150 will air on NBCSN on Aug. 28 at 7 p.m. ET.
The Whelen Modified Tour will return to action on Aug. 29 at New York’s Riverhead Raceway while the Whelen Southern Modified Tour’s schedule will resume on Sept. 5 at Langley Speedway in Hampton, Virginia.Source: NASCAR Home Tracks Media Press Release
Bristol Race Results

1	2	6	Ryan Preece	TS Haulers/East West Marine Chevrolet	103	47N	4	Running
2	1	88	Woody Pitkat	Buzz Chew Chevrolet/Elbow East Chevrolet	103	44N	2	Running
3	12	8	Donny Lia	Sypher Construction/Bardahl Chevrolet	103	41N		Running
4	27	7	Ryan Newman	Menards/Wix Filters Chevrolet	103	40N		Running
5	9	44	Bobby Santos	Tinio Corp./Dan Kelley/Curb Records Chevrolet	103	39N		Running
6	28	11	Andy Seuss	NorthEast Race Cars/Ideal Finance Chevrolet	103	46S		Running
7	3	46	Jeff Goodale *	Riverhead Building Supply Chevrolet	103	38N		Running
8	7	9	Chase Dowling *	S&S Asphalt Paving/Dunleavy's Repair Chevrolet	103	37N		Running
9	8	16	Timmy Solomito	Diversified Metals/R.B. Enterprises Ford	103	36N		Running
10	10	7	Patrick Emerling	Buffalo Auto Auction Chevrolet	103	35N		Running
11	17	79	James Civali	Hillbilly Racing/Coors Light Chevrolet	103	34N		Running
12	13	64	Anthony Nocella *	Nocella Reclamation/Hughes Motors Chevrolet	103	42S		Running
13	22	22	Ted Christopher	Canto Paving/Ferguson Waterworks Chevrolet	103	33N		Running
14	33	14	Max Zachem *	Trowbridge Transport/Dunleavy's Chevrolet	103	32N		Running
15	26	28	George Brunnhoelzl III	Composite Tech./Dunleavy's Repair Chevrolet	103	41S		Running
16	20	40	Frank Fleming	AutosByNelson.com/Lewisville Motors Chevrolet	103	40S		Running
17	18	4	Jason Myers	Adams Towing & Recovery Ford	103	39S		Running
18	19	75	Shawn Solomito	Eastport Feeds/Axel Anderson Inc. Chevrolet	103	31N		Running
19	23	19	Joe Ryan Osborne	Hillbilly Racing/Coors 21 Means 21 Chevrolet	103	30N		Running
20	11	77	Gary Putnam	Curb Records Chevrolet	103	38S		Running
21	29	15	Jeremy Gerstner	GMR Lawn Care/Shady Grady Racing Chevrolet	103	37S		Running
22	24	93	Rowan Pennink	Van Wickle Auto Supply Chevrolet	103	29N		Running
23	30	18	Ken Heagy	Buoy One Seafood Chevrolet	102	28N		Running
24	35	99	Jamie Tomaino	Dunleavy's Repair/Atlantic Sprinkler Chevrolet	101	27N		Running
25	21	74	Bobby Measmer Jr.	Powerhouse Recycling Chevrolet	101	36S		Running
26	34	5	Kyle Ebersole	Ebersole Excavating Ford	95	35S		Engine
27	25	43	David Calabrese	Diamond Back Towing Chevrolet	92	34S		Running
28	4	58	Eric Goodale	GAF Roofing/Supreme Skylights Chevrolet	91	26N		Running
29	31	13	Johnny Bush	JB Stone Chevrolet	90	25N		Handling
30	32	1	Burt Myers	CitruSafe/Adams Towing & Recovery Ford	74	33S		Engine
31	36	21	JR Bertuccio	Gershow Recycling Chevrolet	40	32S		Running
32	14	3	Kyle Bonsignore *	Snap-On Tools Chevrolet	10	24N		Handling
33	16	29	Brendon Bock *	Pro-System Brakes/L.I. Performance Ford	3	23N		Accident
34	5	2	Doug Coby	Dunleavy's Repair/A&J Romano Const. Chevrolet	2	22N		Accident
35	6	41	Todd Szegedy	Mystic Missile Racing Dodge	2	21N		Accident
36	15	51	Justin Bonsignore	M3 Technology Chevrolet	2	20N		Accident