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The UNOH Battle At The Beach
features two nights of racing with NASCAR K&N Pro Series, the NASCAR Whelen
Modified Tours and the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series on the .4-mile oval on
the backstretch.
Locked-in spots go to:
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2012 race winners and champions from K&N
Pro Series and Whelen Modified tours, earn spots in their respective races
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Top-10 finishers in the NASCAR Whelen
All-American Series Division I national standings earn starting spots in the
NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Late Model race.
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In addition, the 2012 overall champions from
the Canadian Tire Series and Euro Racecar Series will also receive secured
starting positions for the event and can choose which one of the three races
they wish to compete.
NASCAR K&N Pro Series
East champion Kyle Larson headlines the 13 NASCAR K&N Pro Series drivers
that secured spots by virtue of winning races. The 20-year-old Larson from Elk
Grove, Calif., native won his first NASCAR touring championship driving the No.
6 Toyota Racing Development Toyota for Rev Racing and NASCAR’s Drive for
Diversity Initiative. Larson, who edged Corey LaJoie for the NASCAR K&N Pro
Series East title by 14 points, earned his spot in the feature field through
his victory at Gresham Motorsports Park in Gresham, Ga. He also won the series’
Sunoco Rookie of the Year honors.
Other notable NASCAR K&N
Pro Series drivers “locked-in” include 17-year-old Dylan Kwasniewski, the
youngest K&N Pro Series West Champion in history; Chase Elliott, son of
two-time Daytona 500 champion Bill Elliott; and Joe Gibbs Racing developmental
driver Darrell Wallace Jr.
Connecticut’s Doug Coby and
North Carolina’s George Brunnhoelzl III head the list of 13 drivers locked into
the NASCAR Whelen Modified race. Coby won four races in claiming his first
NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour championship, while Brunnhoelzl had six wins en
route to his third NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour title.
NASCAR Whelen All-American
Series national champion Lee Pulliam of Semora, N.C., tops the list for the
Late Model race. Pulliamearned the national championship with 22 wins, 30 top
fives and 32 top 10s in 36 starts.
NASCAR international series
champions locked in are D.J. Kennington from the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series
presented by Mobil 1, Spain’s Ander Vilarino from the Euro-Racecar NASCAR
Touring Series, and Mexico’s Jorge Goeters of the NASCAR Toyota Series.
Kennington, from St. Thomas,
Ontario, won his second Canadian Tire Series championship while Vilarino is the
inauguralEuro-Racecar Series champion. Goeters won his second Mexican title,
but first under a NASCAR banner.
Current, or past, full-time
national series drivers not currently competing in the touring or regional
series are ineligible to compete in the UNOH Battle At The Beach.
It will be interesting to see how well these cars can race on a flat 0.4 mile track that is configured between the inner and outer walls of the Daytona backstretch.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Google Earth the distance between the walls at Martinsville is 410' and people think that is tight. Shorter 1/4 mile tracks like the legends tracks at Charlotte/Atlanta the distance is about 275' between the frontstretch wall and the pit wall. Bowman-Gray Stadium is 270'. Daytona? It's only 240' between the walls. YIKES.
Kevin F.