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NASCAR: 2018 Whelen Modified Tour schedule unveiled

By Alex Herbst

STAFFORD SPRINGS, CT - APRIL 25: A Whelen Modiefied Tour flag flies in the garage area during practice for the NAPA Spring Sizzler 200 at Stafford Motor Speedway on April 26, 2015 in Stafford Springs, Connecticut. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)
STAFFORD SPRINGS, CT - APRIL 25: A Whelen Modiefied Tour flag flies in the garage area during practice for the NAPA Spring Sizzler 200 at Stafford Motor Speedway on April 26, 2015 in Stafford Springs, Connecticut. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images) /
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The 2018 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour schedule has been unveiled, with a smattering of new tracks, date changes, and race expansions.

Perhaps one of the most underrated series sanctioned by NASCAR is the Whelen Modified Tour. NASCAR’s only open-wheeled division, these uniquely bodied vehicles race around short tracks all over the eastern seaboard. The 2018 schedule for the series has been unveiled, with a number of changes in its second unified season.

After unifying the Whelen Modified Tour and Southern Modified Tour for the 2017 season, the newly combined series prepares for their 2018 campaign. Seventeen races are on the schedule for the modifieds, with sixteen of those races counting toward the championship.

The season will kick off in South Carolina at Myrtle Beach Speedway in the middle of March, and carry through nine different tracks through October.

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Only one track will drop from the schedule from 2017, with the invitational race at Charlotte Motor Speedway not returning in 2018. Otherwise, much of the schedule remains the same. The only major date change moves the race at Seekonk Speedway from August to early June, between the races at Stafford and Thompson.

The most exciting race on the calendar, however, may not even be the season finale. New Hampshire Motor Speedway‘s second race of the season in September will be the longest modified race in series history, running for 250 laps. This, in effect, replaces the lost Cup Series event at the track in the fall, with that race date moving to Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Here is the full 2018 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour schedule:

DateTrackLocation
17-MarMyrtle Beach SpeedwayMyrtle Beach, S.C.
8-AprThompson Speedway Motorsports ParkThompson, Conn.
29-AprStafford Motor SpeedwayStafford, Conn.
2-JunSeekonk SpeedwaySeekonk, Mass.
13-JunThompson Speedway Motorsports ParkThompson, Conn.
23-JunLangley SpeedwayHampton, Va.
7-JulRiverhead RacewayRiverhead, N.Y.
20-JulNew Hampshire Motor Speedway*Loudon, N.H.
21-JulNew Hampshire Motor SpeedwayLoudon, N.H.
3-AugStafford Motor SpeedwayStafford, Conn.
8-AugThompson Speedway Motorsports ParkThompson, Conn.
15-AugBristol Motor SpeedwayBristol, Tenn.
1-SepOswego SpeedwayOswego, N.Y..
8-SepRiverhead RacewayRiverhead, N.Y.
22-SepNew Hampshire Motor SpeedwayLoudon, N.H.
30-SepStafford Motor SpeedwayStafford, Conn.
14-OctThompson Speedway Motorsports ParkThompson, Conn.

The broadcast schedule for the Whelen Modified Tour will be revealed at a later date. This year, FansChoice.TV showed four early season races live before NBCSN showed the bulk of the remaining schedule on tape delay. It is expected that the latter network will once again air races delayed in 2018.

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Will you be attending any of the Whelen Modified Tour races in 2018? Will you watch any of the races on television?

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