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Whelen
 "Made in America" 300

Martinsville Speedway
August 13th, 2008
 
Whelen Modified Online Tour
Race Results

1. Jeff Marble
2. Tony Hanbury
3. JD Laird
4. Bobby Ambroceo
5. Mike House
6. Chuck Darling
7. Michael Pares, Jr.
8. Richie Coy
9. Charli Brown
10. Zach Truesdail
11. Zach Brewer
12. Justin Link
13. Scott Aldrich
14. Ryan Curran
15. Todd Taylor
16. Mike Whiting
17. Joshua Guiher


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August 13th, 2008
Jeff Marble wins the Whelen "Made in America" 300 at Martinsville! - By Charli Brown


Newly crowned True Value/Dart Machinery Modified Series Summer Season champion Jeff Marble flashes under the checkered flags to win the Whelen "Made in America" 300 at the Martinsville Speedway, Wednesday night.

Martinsville, VA - Buffalo, New York's Jeff Marble has been on a hot streak recently in the SIModified.com Online Racing Leagues.

After wrapping up the 2008 True Value/Dart Machinery Modified Series Summer Season championship at the Beech Ridge Motor Speedway last week, Marble and his U.S. Postal Service team headed to the final race for the Whelen Modified Online Tour's Summer Season at the Martinsville Speedway for the Whelen "Made In America" 300.

Saginaw, Michigan's Chuck Darling trailed series point leader JD Laird by only 5 points heading into the final event and Darling set fast time to win the Coors Light Pole Award with a lap time of 19.774 seconds at 95.762 mph in his Howe Racing Enterprises Pontiac. Rookie Bobby Ambroceo was second fastest with JD Laird, Scott Aldrich and Richie Coy rounding out the top five.

Darling led 51 laps and knew he had to finish in front of JD Laird to win the Whelen Modified Online Tour Summer Season Championship. Darling hounded Laird's Hass Automation Toyota in the race's closing stages and made a move for the lead as the two raced to turn three with just three laps to go.

Darling dove to the inside and made slight contact with JD Laird's machine, sending him spinning him up into the marbles to bring out the race's final caution on lap 298. Third place driver Jeff Marble would inherit the lead and follow the Chevrolet pace car under the double Sunoco checkered flags followed by Tony Hanbury, JD Laird, Bobby Ambroceo and Mike House. Darling was scored as the last car on the lead lap in the sixth position.

The race saw 26 lead changes between 9 different drivers, with JD Laird winning the Mends Image Most Laps led Award by leading 189 of the race's 300 laps. Laird also won the KING Design Halfway Leader Award by leading at halfway on lap 150 and also set the fastest lap of the race.

The race was slowed by 19 caution flags for 94 laps, with Bobby Ambroceo taking home the Sunoco "Rookie of the Race" Award. Mike House won the Powerade "Power Move of the Race" Award for improving his position 9 places at the end of the event, while race winner Jeff Marble also won the Featherlite "Most Improved Driver" Award for improving his finishing position 13 places from the last Tour event at Bowman Gray Stadium.

With his third place finish at Martinsville, Alta Loma California's JD Laird won the 2008 Whelen Modified Online Tour Summer season championship by 25 points over Chuck Darling. 2008 Spring Season champion Richie Coy came home third in the final standings, followed by Michael Pares, Jr. and Jeff Marble.

Thirty different drivers made at least one start during the 2008 Whelen Modified Online Tour Summer Season, which doubled the amount of drivers from the Spring Season.

The SIModified.com Online Racing Leagues will now take a short break to prepare for the 2008 Fall Season of racing.