CHARLOTTE, NC :: NASCAR announced on Wednesday the schedules for both the Whelen Modified Tour and the Whelen Southern Modified Tour, with both divisions welcoming new events for the series 2015 season.
The upcoming campaign will be the 30th in the history of the storied “northern” tour and features 14 points races across six tracks and the return of the All-Star Invitational at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The Southern Tour will include 11 point races across seven southeastern short tracks.
As has become tradition, the annual August event at Bristol Motor Speedway will be a championship race for both divisions.
The 2015 schedules feature a new event of sorts for each tour. Thompson Speedway will host the northern tour for an early summer event, under the lights on June 10, while the Southern Modified Tour will make its debut at historic Hickory Motor Speedway on Oct. 3.
“The combination of new and traditional events, and national series companion weekends are sure to provide NASCAR modified fans with the wheel-to-wheel action they’ve come to know and love once again in 2015,” said George Silbermann, NASCAR vice president for regional and touring series. “We are very excited that historic Hickory Motor Speedway will showcase the Whelen Southern Modified Tour for the first time and that Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park has returned its popular June date to the schedule.”
Doug Coby and Andy Seuss are the defending champions of the northern tour and Southern Tour respectively with both titilists expected to return to defend their crown.
Race22.com will expand its coverage of the Whelen Modified Tour in 2015 with sporadic supplemental coverage of the Southern Tour when available. The complete schedules for both tours can be viewed below:
NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Schedule
April 12th: Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park — Thompson, Connecticut
April 26th: Stafford Motor Speedway — Stafford, Connecticut
June 5th: Stafford Motor Speedway — Stafford, Connecticut
June 10th: Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park — Thompson, Connecticut
June 27th: Riverhead Raceway — Riverhead, New York
July 17th: New Hampshire Motor Speedway — Loudon, New Hampshire
July 18th: New Hampshire Motor Speedway — Loudon, New Hampshire
July 25th: Monadnock Speedway — Winchester, New Hampshire
August 7th: Stafford Motor Speedway — Stafford, Connecticut
August 12th: Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park — Thompson, Connecticut
August 19th: Bristol Motor Speedway — Bristol, Tennessee
August 29th: Riverhead Raceway — Riverhead, New York
September 26th: New Hampshire Motor Speedway — Loudon, New Hampshire
October 4th: Stafford Motor Speedway — Stafford, Connecticut
October 18th: Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park — Thompson, Connecticut
NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour Schedule
March 14th: Caraway Speedway — Sophia, North Carolina
March 28th: Caraway Speedway — Sophia, North Carolina
April 4th: South Boston Speedway — South Boston, Virginia
April 11th: Langley Speedway — Hampton, Virginia
July 4th: Caraway Speedway — Sophia, North Carolina
August 1st: Bowman Gray Stadium — Winston Salem, North Carolina
August 19th: Bristol Motor Speedway — Bristol, Tennessee
September 5th: Langley Speedway — Hampton, Virginia
September 19th: South Boston Speedway — South Boston, Virginia
October 3rd: Hickory Motor Speedway — Newton, North Carolina
October 8th: Charlotte Motor Speedway — Concord, North Carolina
