Wilson, originally from Orlando,
Fla., has served the two previous years as director of the NASCAR Whelen
Southern Modified Tour. He’ll now lead the northeast-based NASCAR Whelen
Modified Tour, which traces its roots back to the first NASCAR-sanctioned event
in 1948.
Ellis, who hails from Suffolk, Va.,
will fill the void left by Wilson. He served the two previous seasons as the
technical director for the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour.
“We are very pleased to appoint
Jimmy and Juston to their leadership positions with the NASCAR Whelen Modified
and Whelen Southern Modified Tours,” NASCAR Tour Series Director Brad Moran
said. “Jimmy will bring a wealth of experience to NASCAR’s oldest series, and
it will be a great opportunity for Juston, who has done a great job with NASCAR
since coming on as the Whelen Southern Modified Tour’s technical director.”
Wilson, 37, has nearly two decades
of experience as a stock car racing official. He was a NASCAR Timing &
Scoring official for four seasons in the mid-1990s and served as the series
director and race director for the USAR Pro Cup Series for 14 years. In two
seasons leading the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour, the car count
increased by an average of five entries per event.
Wilson fills the NASCAR Whelen
Modified Tour director position that was vacated by the recent appointment of
Chad Little to the same position for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.
Prior to joining the NASCAR Whelen
Southern Modified Tour officials staff in 2011, Ellis, 33, came to NASCAR with
six seasons of experience as pit steward and technical director at Langley
Speedway in Hampton, Va., a NASCAR Whelen All-American Series-sanctioned
facility. He graduated from Old Dominion University in 2002 with a degree in
civil engineering.
Wilson and Ellis will lead their
respective tours for the first time in the non-points UNOH Battle At The Beach,
Feb. 18-19 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway. The NASCAR Whelen Modified
and NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tours will run a combination race as part
of a tripleheader of feature racing action on a .4-mile oval on the track’s
backstretch.
The 2013 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour
points season will commence at Thompson (Conn.) International Speedway on April
14, the first of 14 events. The 12-race 2013 NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified
Tour points season will begin at on March 16 at Caraway Speedway in Asheboro,
N.C.
Guess that again they could not find someone from the north to run the series, someone who knows who everyone. They just add cost to the series by flying all these officials from down south for every race.. Last year they reduce the payout and the points pool payout from top 20 to top 15 crying the cost to run the tour.
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