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| Ted Christopher of Plainville, Conn. has won the 2004 Lincoln Electric/Merriam-Graves NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Track Championship at New Hampshire International Speedway. This is Teds first track championship at the Speedway.
Christopher, driver of the No. 13 AWD/DWD/JAT/TSI Chevrolet, swept both the Siemens 100 and SYLVANIA 100 Presented by Lowes. Ted continued his domination of the mighty modifieds at The Magic Mile by winning the pole for both events and by leading 175 of the 208 laps run at NHIS in 2004. He ended his season in fourth place in the 2004 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Championship standings. Tony Hirschman of Northampton, Pa. has finished second in the track championship standings. Hirschman, the NHIS Lincoln Electric/Merriam-Graves Modified Tour Track Champion in 1996, 1999, and 2001, finished fourth in Julys Siemens 100 and third in Septembers SYLVANIA 100 Presented by Lowes behind the wheel of the No. 48 Kamco Supply Corporation Chevrolet. Tony won the 2004 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Championship. Donny Lia has captured third in the track championship point standings. Driving the No. 18 Toyota of New Rochelle Chevrolet, this Merrick, N.Y. native finished fifth in July at the Siemens 100 and fourth in the September SYLVANIA 100 Presented by Lowes. This is Donnys first podium finish in the track championship in only his second year of competition at New Hampshire International Speedway. Lia finished eighth in the 2004 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Championship standings. The Lincoln Electric/Merriam-Graves Championship awards a total purse of $10,000 to the top three finishing drivers in the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour races at New Hampshire International Speedway. The awards were presented at the Speedway's Annual Holiday Dinner on December 7, 2004. |
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| Going down to Florida Speedweeks last month was a good chance for Donny Lia and his No. 18 LMI team to escape the Northeastern winter and get a little bit of racing under their belts. It was a successful trip for them. They raced for eight nights and won the biggest event of the week, the Richie Evans Memorial 100.
The problem is, Lia and his team are now back up North and their next race wont be until April 10th when the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour opens its season with the Icebreaker at Thompson International Speedway (CT). That is enough time for everyone involved in racing drivers, fans and crew members to go stir crazy. To pass the time until then, all three groups of racing enthusiasts will get the chance to assemble in West Springfield, Massachusetts, this weekend for the annual Racearama Racing and Trade Show. Lia will be at the show to meet fans, sign autographs and display his No. 18 Modified as a guest of New Hampshire International Speedway. Its a real honor that the people at NHIS have called us because they wanted our car in their booth, said Lia. Everyone at the track, all the way up to the Bahre family, is so into the NASCAR Modifieds. They love them and treat us so well. The track gave us a championship point fund, a nice banquet and they want to have a Modified sitting right in their booth for this show. I really appreciate the fact that they value us so much. Lia was a natural pick for the NHIS booth since the young New York driver finished third in the NHIS track championship standings for the Modifieds in 2004. The chance to meet fans and be around racecars while there is still snow on the ground is a positive for Lia. Its still another month until we race, so its a really nice time to see the fans and everyone from the Tour, said Lia. I met a lot of nice fans at Racearama last year. Then, over the course of the season, we bumped into a few of them. Its always great to meet the fans and its really cool when you remember them and talk to them again over the course of the year. |