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WhelenModifiedTour


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A two part question.


When the NASCAR Modified Tour began in 1985 ,


1. What was the oficial name of the Tour ?


2. How many races were on the schedule ?


  



-- Edited by WhelenModifiedTour at 19:16, 2006-08-11

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1) NASCAR Featherlite Modified Tour


2) All of them? No, I'll guess 22.



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No and No Spd.

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... As pointed out in The Vault's ALMANAC (Plug...plug - 1980's/1985/Special Events), the original name of the tour was The Gatorade Circle of Champions.  Need help with the # of events though....



 



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Sid, we may have opened a can of worms now. According to my research , that is not the official name. I do remeber there being a "Circle of Champions Bonus". I beleive this was to entice certain drivers to show up at events.

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As the resident stats geek - opening a can of worms is a good thing...  I've never been one to say "The Vault is Record", I only record what the research shows me.  In this case, it seems as though the Circle of Champs moniker comes from seeing only certain events from the 85 season and I'm guessing the few I've seen were part of that deal/promotion... I'll keep an eye on this thread and hopefully get a "definitive" answer... 


... or email me with some more info...


... so I guess that means I got it wrong, huh???


 


 



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Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh! You got'er wrong it look's like Sid. And where the heck have you been??? Not enough love to share from you between here an JP.com? J/k lol.


 



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Ok, started digging out the old programs and Speedway Scenesand I couldn't find much from '85, but a Jan. 24, 1986 Speedway Scene calls the '86 series the 'NASCAR Gatorade Modified Championship Series' and there were 26shows on tap for '86.


However, the April '86 Spring Sizzler program called the '85 series as the 'NASCAR Winston Racing Series Modified Point Tour' and as the 'NASCAR Winston Racing Series Modified Tour'. By the way, the '86 Spring Sizzler program has some very good Richie Evans memorial pages. I'll try to scan them in and post them if I can.


So, my final answer (this post anyway) is: 'NASCAR Winston Racing Series Modified Tour'


and I'll guess 24 shows.



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Well we are getting closer to the bottom of this one. The Tour name i will give you SPD. According to the reasearch I came across in the 1985 the Modified Tour was know as the NASCAR Winston Modified Tour. The number of races is still needed.

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From Wikipedia


The modern-day Modified Tour was first held in 1985 named the NASCAR Winston Modified Tour.[3] It switched sponsorship to the Featherlite Trailers brand in 1994, and was renamed to the NASCAR Featherlite Modified Series.



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there was 24 races ????????

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No it was not 24 races. Another hint is in 1985 the Tour visited a Southern state for the first and only time.

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Ok, so that would be 25 races.



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No not 25 but getting warmer LOL.

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There were 30 races scheduled. Whoa, what that must have been like!!!

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Hmm 30 is not the number I had. Close though. Just curious Deb, is this a researched number. Just wondering because my info states a different number.



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That' definitely something I looked up. I wasn't following racing during that time. Yankeeracer.com had the races for each of the years. I'm assuming (oh oh) that it's correct.

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Well I am going to give it to you ,especially if you looked it up. This is what I found at Wikipedia and went by.


The modern-day Modified Tour was first held in 1985 with 29 races, named the NASCAR Winston Modified Tour.[3] It switched sponsorship to the Featherlite Trailers brand in 1994, and was renamed to the NASCAR Featherlite Modified Series.


Two major changes to the Modified Tour came in 2005.


In 2005, Whelen Industries took over sponsorship of the series, which was renamed to the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour.



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I looked it up and turns out in 1985 there were 30 races scheduled, but the race a WSB was rained out so they canceled in because they thought that's what TE would do!


So you're both right! 



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Ahhh, thanx Spd. That little question turned into a nice history lesson. It is nice to see how much enthusiasm everyone had on the subject.


 



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