Chuck Hossfeld and the Mystic Missile Take Third at Stafford on 4/27/2008
  Chuck Hossfeld and the Mystic Missile Take Second at Thompson on 4/6/2008
 

CHAMPIONS OF THE

2007 WHELEN MODIFIED TOUR!!!

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NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour


When NASCAR began more than 50 years ago, teams were permitted to “modify” their passenger cars for better performance. In fact, NASCAR’s very first event, held on the beach-road course in Daytona Beach, Fla., was a Modified race. During the 1950s and 60s, these cars developed innovative suspension systems, better engines, sophisticated bodies and soon, the cars looked and drove like nothing else in NASCAR. That tradition of innovation continued throughout the 70s and 80s, culminating in today’s NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, which was officially founded in 1985.


Whelen Engineering, a Connecticut-based manufacturer of emergency lighting and signaling devices, becomes this division’s title sponsor in 2005.


As the only open-wheeled division of NASCAR, the cars in this popular tour are unique in many ways. NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour cars weigh 2,610 pounds and have a wheelbase of 107 inches. Whelen Modified Tour cars drive on wide Hoosier bias-play tires, while power is provided by “small block” 350 to 360 cubic-inch engines.


The Whelen Modified Tour has competed throughout Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York, on tracks ranging in size from a quarter-mile, to the 1.058-mile oval at New Hampshire International Speedway.


Notable Modified Tour graduates include drivers – Jimmy Spencer, Steve Park, Geoffrey Bodine, Jeff Fuller and Mike McLaughlin, to name a few – and crew chief Tommy Baldwin Jr.