Como Modified Series Ready To Roll In 2011

May 14

Northland Sports Online

The 2011 edition of the Como Oil & Propane Modified Series presented by Subway is ready to kick off its campaign in just a couple of weeks with the first of ten series events taking place on Wednesday, May 25th at the state of the art Ogilvie Raceway in Ogilvie, MN. This event features a $2000 winner’s payday and should be a great starting point for the ’11 series as many Northern, Southern, East, West and Central drivers are expected to be in attendance for a shot at the series title.

Series founder Joe Stariha commented, “After running our inaugural race at Ogilvie Raceway last year, it took me about 20 minutes after the race to walk up to Nate Fischer, the promoter at Ogilvie, and say let’s do two races next year.” Stariha added, “It’s a premier racing facility and we are very excited to bring two races there this year, not to mention the nightly purse at those two races is unheard of for weekday WISSOTA racing.”

The series will then shift northward to the Hibbing Raceway in Hibbing, MN for a $1500 to win event on Wednesday, June 15th, before back to back $1500 to win events at the ABC Raceway in Ashland, WI on Tuesday, June 28th and the Proctor Speedway on Wednesday, June 29th prior to the fourth of July holiday weekend.

The lone event in July will take place at the newly named AMSOIL Speedway in Superior, WI as this $1500 to win event will be held at the recently re-WISSOTA-sanctioned facility at the Head of the Lakes Fairgrounds in Superior.

August will see a whopping $2500 to win event as the series makes its second visit to the Ogilvie Raceway on Wednesday, August 3rd for the second annual Minnesota Modified Hall of Fame night, where several Modified stand outs from the past or present will join 2010 inductees Mark Noble and Ron Jones in the MN Hall of Fame.

September – the ‘month of money’ – for the Como Mod Series presented by Subway drivers kicks off at the annual Silver 1000 in Proctor on Thursday, September 1st before heading to the Hibbing Raceway on the first day of the Labor Day Shootout.

The Northern Nationals at the AMSOIL Speedway in Superior is next on the list on Saturday, September 10th before the series wraps up at the Red Clay Classic at the ABC Raceway in Ashland on Friday and Saturday, September 30th and October 1st.

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