Solomito Charges Late For Myrtle Beach Modified Win

Timmy Solomito opened the 2017 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour season with a win in Saturday’s Performance Plus 150 at Myrtle Beach Speedway. Photo by Adam Glanzman/NASCAR

One year ago, Timmy Solomito captured his first career NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour victory in the season-opening Icebreaker at Connecticut’s Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park.

Fast-forward a year later, the Islip, New York, driver was celebrating a victory in the season-opening race once again. This time, the win came in South Carolina.

Solomito captured the win in the Performance Plus 150 on Saturday at another historic venue, the half-mile Myrtle Beach Speedway, and became the first winner on the newly formed unified Whelen Modified Tour.

Solomito’s No. 16 Starrett Tools Ford took the lead for the final time following a late-race caution that setup the final restart and held off Rob Summers on a green-white-checkered finish to take down the victory. The win was Solomito’s fifth career on the tour after his breakout 2016.

“My team did a great job,” said Solomito. “We knew we had to ride and save our stuff as much as possible for the end of the race. I knew the last five laps we had to run as hard as possible and my team gave me a car good enough to do that.”

Rob Summers, who scored his first Coors Light Pole Award since 2001 earlier in the day, led a race-high 72 laps but came up just short of the victory with a second place finish behind the wheel of his No. 64 Fastrock Electric Chevrolet.

Andy Seuss made a late charge to finish third after spinning just after the halfway point. Ryan Preece was also able to climb to the front late and finish fourth, with Max Zachem rounding out the top five.

Justin Bonsignore was sixth, followed by Rowan Pennink – who led 38 laps – Woody Pitkat, Les Hinckley III and Burt Myers.

The race was slowed by eight cautions, with four coming in the final 30 laps, including one on lap 145 and a subsequent one on lap 148 that winnowed the field and took out several contenders. The final yellow pushed the race to 155 laps.

In the offseason, NASCAR unified the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour and NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour into one tour that stretches from New Hampshire to South Carolina.

The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour returns to the track at Thompson for the Icebreaker 150 on Sunday, April 2.

NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour
Myrtle Beach Speedway – Myrtle Beach, SC
Performance Plus 150 – March 18, 2017

Fin	Str	Car	Driver	Team	Laps	Points	B/Points	Status
1	7	16	Timmy Solomito	Starrett Tools Ford	155	47	4	Running
2	1	64	Rob Summers	Fastrock Electric Chevrolet	155	44	2	Running
3	15	11	Andy Seuss	LFR Chassis Chevrolet	155	42	1	Running
4	10	6	Ryan Preece	TS Hauler Chevrolet	155	41	1	Running
5	4	20	Max Zachem	MPZ Motorsports/Lu-Macs Chevrolet	155	39		Running
6	16	51	Justin Bonsignore	Phoenix Communications Inc. Chevrolet	155	38		Running
7	3	3	Rowan Pennink	Cape Cod Copper Chevrolet	155	38	1	Running
8	25	46	Woody Pitkat	Riverhead Building Supply Chevrolet	155	36		Running
9	29	00	Les Hinckley, III *	Chad Freeman Attorney at Law Chevrolet	155	35		Running
10	18	1	Burt Myers	Citrusafe Cleaners Ford	155	34		Running
11	21	89	Matt Swanson	Starrett Tools Ford	155	33		Running
12	20	40	Danny Bohn	Dunleavy Truck & Trailer Repair/Will I Am South	155	32		Running
13	22	2	Doug Coby	Mayhew Tools Chevrolet	155	31		Running
14	26	77	Gary Putnam	Curb Records Chevrolet	155	30		Running
15	13	17	Kyle Ellwood	TBD Chevrolet	151	29		Running
16	14	82	Ron Silk	Horton Avenue Materials Chevrolet	148	28		Accident
17	9	60	Matt Hirschman	Pee Dee Motorsports Chevrolet	148	27		Accident
18	11	58	Eric Goodale	GAF/Heritage Millworth Chevrolet	148	26		Accident
19	12	22	Kyle Bonsignore	Snap-On Tools Chevrolet	148	26	1	Running
20	27	33	Wade Cole	Perf. Engines/Kendall Oil Ford	148	24		Running
21	5	75	Shawn Solomito	Eastport Feeds Chevrolet	145	23		Accident
22	8	15	Jeremy Gerstner	The Carriage House Restaurant/GMR Chevrolet	145	23	1	Accident
23	6	36	Dave Sapienza	Sapienza Enterprise Chevrolet	145	21		Accident
24	24	99	Jamie Tomaino	Dunleavys Repair Chevrolet	137	20		Accident
25	17	85	Todd Szegedy	Montanari Fuel/Stuarts Automotive Chevrolet	128	19		Accident
26	28	01	Melissa Fifield	Eastern Propane & Oil Chevrolet	117	18		Accident
27	23	39	Calvin Carroll *	Power with Prestige Chevrolet	103	17		Rear End
29	19	56	Craig Lutz	TBD Toyota	14	15		Rear End

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Fastest Qualifier: Rob Summers, Time: 20.028 Seconds, Speed: 95.267 mph

Time of Race: 1 hrs., 48 mins, 38 secs Average Speed: 45.373 mph Margin of Victory: 0.244 Seconds

Caution Flags: Laps 55-61 (Car #77 turn 1 contact, FP #40); 81-86 (Car #85 spun front stretch, FP #00); 90-95 (Car #39 turn 1 & 2, FP #75); 101-107 (Debris front stretch, FP #85); 129-136 (Multiple car turn 3 & 4, FP #2); 138-144 (Multiple car back stretch, FP #77); 146-147 (Multiple car turn 1 & 2, FP #40); 149-152 (Multiple car front to turn 1, FP #40). 8 for 47 laps.

Lap Leaders: Rob Summers 1-56, Rowan Pennink 57-84, Kyle Bonsignore 85-88, Jeremy Gerstner 89-104, Ryan Preece 105-106, Rowan Pennink 107-115, Andy Seuss 116-130, Rowan Pennink 131, Rob Summers 132-147, Timmy Solomito 148-155.

Total Laps Led: Rob Summers 72, Rowan Pennink 38, Jeremy Gerstner 16, Andy Seuss 15, Timmy Solomito 8, Kyle Bonsignore 4, Ryan Preece 2. 9 changes involving 7 drivers.

Top 10 Driver Points: Timmy Solomito 47, Rob Summers 44, Andy Seuss 42, Ryan Preece 41, Max Zachem 39, Justin Bonsignore 38, Rowan Pennink 38, Woody Pitkat 36, Les Hinckley, III * 35, Burt Myers 34

Next Race: Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park

* Denotes Sunoco Rookie of the Year contender