With another good season of Modified racing now in the books Mark Williams again had a sensational season as he collected 9 feature wins on way to another Modified title. Mark won 3 of the 1st 4 events to open up a sizeable lead that was never threatened, Despite not getting to the winners circle Randy Haydt was a threat every night as he posted 3 Runner Up finishes and 7 more Top 5’s on way to a strong 2nd place finish. A good year for TCSA racing as Cory Reinhard visited victory lane 2 times, had 3 Runner Up finishes to post a 3rd place finish in the final totals. Just 8 points behind, Jim LeVan turned in another steady season as he scored a win in November than added 6 more Top 5’s to finish 4th in the final standing. Closing out the Top5 Tom Wenner improved 3 spots from last year, came close to getting that 1st Modified win, as he had 2 Runner Up’s capping off a fine season. Trailing Tom by just 9 points, Toby Reinhard posted 5 Top 5’s, won 12 segments to finish 6th. Just 1 point behind Toby, Scott Bender broke into the Top 5 4 times to finish 7th in the final standing. Billy Decker used a strong 2nd half of the season that included 3 Top 5’s to finish 8th. Brian Sponagle had a 4th place finish in mid season, scored 13 segment wins to finish 9th. Mike Mackaravitz finished off a good ” Rookie ” season scoring 10 segment wins to close out the Top10.
( 11 – 15 ) – 11th James H. ( 4 wins ) /12th Brian V. / 13th Larry S. / 14th TIE Hiriam D. ( 1 win ) and TonyZ, ( 1 win )
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Modified class again drew some big fields as we had 5 races with fields of 20 or more with a record 23 entered for the annual XMas race. The final Modified race this year on the Tri-Oval feature beautiful Coupe bodies made by Fred Mccullouch. Hope to see the Coupe’s back again next year.Top 11 in points won segments, with a total of 18 different segment winners.Congrats goes out to John Kosmoski on getting his 1st Modified win as it turned out to be our last Modified race of the season which was also Bob Amore / Rob London Memorial race. Remembering 2 great guys that we lost this year and we all miss. Want to thank Jodi for doing a great job on the computer this year ( and having to put up with Randy ! ) Also want to Thank Billy Decker for helping to get Steve Sabo for his sponsorship this year.
