Kyle Bonsignore rolled to a NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour victory Saturday night for the first time since 2018, prevailing in the checkeredflag.com 150 at Langley Speedway in Hampton.
Bonsignore, of Mooresville, North Carolina, drove the No. 8 car to a victory over Austin Beers, who was at the wheel of the No. 64. Beers, from Northampton, Pennsylvania, led practice, won the pole and dominated much of the race.
Bonsignore made the winning pass with less than five laps to go.
“I felt like we were really evenly matched with the 64 car, … but we were better than him in lapped traffic,” Bonsignore said. “I saw that window with four or five to go and I knew I had to take it.”
It was his second victory in 70 lifetime Whelen starts.
“This is huge,” Bonsignore said on racedayct.com. “We’ve had some really great cars this year and we’ve just had some crazy circumstances that have kept us from getting the finishes that we deserve. It’s a huge shot in the arm.”
Bonsignore’s cousin Justin Bonsignore was third, and points leader Ron Silk of Norwalk, Connecticut, placed fourth.
The 15-car field broke a 38-year-old series record for the fewest cars in a Whelen Modified Tour race.Kyle Bonsignore trails Silk by one point in the standings with six races remaining.
Super Street: Sammy Gaita won a 40-lap race in just less than 18 minutes and 40 seconds, defeating runner-up Colby Vance by 1.758 seconds for his sixth victory of 2023. Dale Nichols took third, 2.264 off the lead.
Gordon Weeks, who began the night one point ahead of Gaita for first in the standings, surrendered the top spot by placing ninth in the field of 12. Seven drivers finished on the lead lap.
In other divisions:
Super Truck: Chris Roberts prevailed over 25 laps and just more than 11 1/2 minutes, outpacing Chase McAdams by 1.757 seconds.
Points leader Hunter Waltrip was a distant third among 12 drivers, 5.800 seconds behind Roberts, who won for the second time this year. Roberts was just 11th in the standings when he took the green flag.
Pro Six: Travis Wall extended his season-long domination of the division, finishing ahead of Trey New and Atley Wiese.
Wall won for the seventh time in eight races. He started the race leading second-place Wiese by five points.
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Saturday’s leaders at Langley Speedway in Hampton (car numbers).
NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour checkeredflag.com 150: (15 starters); 1. (22) Kyle Bonsignore; 2. (64) Austin Beers; 3. (51) Justin Bonsignore; 4. (16) Ron Silk.
Super Street 40: (12 starters); 1. (21) Sammy Gaita; 2. (44) Colby Vance; 3. (8) Dale Nichols; 4. (95) Danny Harrell; 5. (12) Sean Calway.
Super Truck 25: (11 starters); 1. (8) Chris Roberts; 2. (15) Chase McAdams; 3. (9) Rick Poust; 4. (33) Hunter Waltrip; 5. (05) Donald Brown.
Pro Six 25: (10 starters); 1. (44) Travis Wall; 2. (55) Trey New; 3. (78) Atley Wiese; 4. (39) Jaxon Bone; 5. (48) Nick Lamarche.
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Quade wins race, but Justin Williams repeats as VMS Pro Late Model season champ
Matt Quade took the lead on the opening lap and never relinquished it Saturday night as he gained his second victory of 2023 in Virginia Motor Speedway’s Pro Late Model division.
With only one caution, on the fourth lap of 35 on the half-mile dirt track in Middlesex County, Quade went on to finish ahead of Chuck Bowie and third-place Justin Williams, a Concord driver who clinched his third consecutive division title.
In other divisions:
Sportsman: Davis Lipscombe of Mechanicsville became the first VMS driver to go undefeated for a year, winning for the seventh consecutive time. The runaway season champion held off Tim Shelton in a 30-lap event out of the final corner after three laps of side-by-side racing.
Modified: Apparent runner-up Lance Grady gained his first lifetime victory by disqualification, though Austin Holcombe crossed the finish line first after 30 laps.
Jeff Solinger placed second, while division champion Chase Butler of Mechanicsville was fifth. Butler won two races this year.
Limited Stock Car: Johnny Brooks gained a comfortable lead and won a 25-lap race, while the runner-up was season champ Brian Maxey of King George. Maxey moved up through the field after making contact with James Givens, who placed fourth.
With weekly racing finished for the year, the next VMS event will be the 17th annual Run A Muck Mud Bog on Oct. 2.
Saturday’s leaders at the dirt track in Jamaica, in Middlesex County, with car numbers [starting positions].
Pro Late Model 35: (16 starters); 1. 47-Matt Quade[1]; 2. 14C-Chuck Bowie[5]; 3. 2W-Justin Williams[6]; 4. 8-Jeremy Pilkerton[3]; 5. 38-Nicolas Love[9].
Sportsman 30: (17 starters); 1. 71-Davis Lipscombe[8]; 2. 55-Tim Shelton[3]; 3. 25-Tyler Shipp[2]; 4. 10-Matt Ashworth[5]; 5. 23-Matt Meads[7].
Modified 30: (20 entrants); 1. 48-Lance Grady[8]; 2. 7+7-Jeff Solinger[13]; 3. 84-Ryan Toole[1]; 4. 43-Josh Harris[7]; 5. 11-Chase Butler[5].
Limited Stock Car 25: (21 starters); 1. 7-Johnny Brooks[6]; 2. 5-Brian Maxey[5]; 3. 55-Raymond Harper[2]; 4. 88-Jay Seward[3]; 5. 8-James Givens[4].
