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Thanks Flash truly appreciate you posting this.

Well not to speak poorly on any local tracks, but as a promoter I have had the opportunity to travel to several tracks both local and at some distance. All are ran differently some more efficiently than others. There are some tracks that have 6-7 classes per night, start fairly late but get their show in within a few hours very little downtime. IMO this is a model for local tracks to seek. For instance, at Merrittville we started fairly late if memory serves me correctly it was 6:30 or 7:00 had I believe 6-7 classes took time to have a walk a lap time for fans and we were out of there by 10:00 thats packed up on getting on the road. Honestly, heading there I thought with that schedule we would be leaving the track super late, but not true. It was a great show and I think fans and racers appreciated the professionalism and fast happening show. Again, just my perspective and opinion

BRP Modified Tour Announces 2022 Season Schedule along with 25th Silver Anniversary Weekend Showdown
By: Pam Baker

Marble, PA ..12/21/2021 The BRP Modified Tour will be celebrating their 25th Silver Anniversary season in 2022 and many exciting events will be held during the upcoming season. With prices increasing for fuel, race car parts, tires, etc. and the availability of products being a problem right now, we are keeping our 25th season to a 10-race schedule with a 2-day season ending event that should make our 25th year the biggest ever!. Purses have increased across race the board for our 25th season with $2,500 to win a regular BRP Modified Tour 35-lap event. Money has been added to all positions, some more than others.
The BRP Modified Tour was started in 1998 by Tim Engles, Lon and Pam Baker, and Randy Myers to allow the Big Block Modifieds in Western Pennsylvania/Eastern Ohio area a chance to compete for a higher purse structure and point fund for their scheduled events. Celebrating our 25th Silver Anniversary season, The BRP Modified Tour has found our drivers competing in events at various speedways in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, West Virginia, and Canada.
​Michaels Mercer Raceway Park is in the process of preparing the track with a new, red-clay surface, new LED lighting, new pit grandstands located off the back stretch and reopening the concession stands once again. With all these new additions the 2022 BRP Modified Tour schedule will start off at Michaels Mercer Raceway on April 3rd with the running of the Chiller Thriller. May 20th - Lernerville Speedway will host the BRP Modified Tour drivers, then we head to Hummingbird Speedway on June 4th. On June 24th the Tour will travel to Ransomville Speedway where something special is being worked on that will help us with our 25th season celebration.
​Knox Raceway (the former Sportsmans Speedway) will honor the late Sid Unverzagt, Sr. by hosting a BRP Modified Tour event on July 2nd. Thursday, July 14th the Tour will travel to Expo Speedway as part of the Trumbull County Fair, and then on Saturday, July 16th the Tour will return to Hummingbird Speedway. On Saturday, September 3rd the Tour will participate at Sharon Speedway for the Lou Blaney Memorial race. Tri City Raceway is also on the race schedule, but a date has not been figured out quite yet.
​Our final points race of the season will be part of a two-day 25th Anniversary Weekend Showdown to be held on September 9-10 at Michaels Mercer Raceway. Friday night will be the final points race for 2022 and will be a regular 35-lap event paying $2,500 to win. Then on Saturday we will be running a $7,000 to win; $500 to start event to wrap up our 25th season! Our banquet for our 2022 Champion will be held at the track on Saturday, September 10th at noon and then our 50-lap, $7,000 to win race will be held at the regular race time.
​The Steel City Stampede will still be a part of the BRP Modified Tour series for 2022; however, it will be held as a non-point event that we hope our drivers participate in on October 13-15, 2022. We will still have our trailer at the event and will help with registration and lineups.
​There will be a separate release for the 25th Anniversary Weekend Showdown coming in the next day or so. Below please find a copy of the Tentative 2022 BRP Modified Tour Schedule.

Saturday, April 2, 2022​Michaels Mercer Raceway, Mercer, PA (Chiller Thriller)
​​(Raindate: April 9, 2022)

Friday, May 20, 2022​Lernerville Speedway, Sarver, PA
​(Raindate: TBA)

Saturday, June 4, 2022​Hummingbird Speedway, Reynoldsville, PA
​(Raindate: August 3, 2022)

Friday, June 24, 2022​Ransomville Speedway, Ransomville, NY
​(Raindate: July 22, 2022)

Saturday, July 2, 2022​Knox Raceway, Knox, PA
(Sid Unverzagt, Sr. Memorial Race)

Thursday, July 14, 2022​Expo Speedway, Cortland, OH

Saturday July 16, 2022​Hummingbird Speedway, Reynoldsville, PA
​(Raindate: August 3, 2022)

Saturday, August 16, 2022​Michaels Mercer Raceway, Mercer, PA
​(Ralph Quarterson Memorial, Raindate: TBA)

Sunday, TBA​Tri City Raceway Park, Franklin, PA
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Saturday, September 3, 2022​Sharon Speedway, Hartford, OH
​(Lou Blaney Memorial Race)

Friday, September 9, 2022​Michaels Mercer Raceway, Mercer, PA
​​(Final points race of 2022 Raindate: September 10-11)

Saturday, September 10, 2022​Michaels Mercer Raceway, Mercer, PA
​25th Anniversary Weekend Showdown

Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 13-15​Lernerville Speedway - Steel City Stampede Event
​(Raindate: October 16, 2022 - Non-point event for 2022)

​ Schedule is Tentative and Subject to Change!
​ Check us out at www.themodifiedtourinc.com

Chad Brachmann Picks Up Win #5 on the Season at Thunder Mountain Speedway on Friday Night
By: Pam Baker

Marble, PA . August 27, 2021 The BRP Modified Tour completed their tenth race of the 2021 season on Friday night at Thunder Mountain Speedway in Brookville, PA. There were 18 cars on hand for the event and Mother Nature stayed away to let the cars compete in the 35-lap event.
​Rex King, Sr. and Eric Gabany led the field to the drop of the green but before a lap was completed the caution flag waved as Rex King, Jr., Rick Regalski and Brian Swartzlander came together in turn four. On the restart the caution flag waved again for Eric Gabany as his motor expired after taking the lead in turn one. On the third try Rex King, Sr. jumped out ahead of JR McGinley and led the pack until lap seven when the caution flag waved once again for Steve Slater who spun in turn four.
​On the single file restart, Rex King, Sr. once again took command of the lead with ninth place starter Chad Brachmann now sitting in second ahead of JR McGinley. Brachmann went to work on King,Sr. and the caution flag waved once again for Garrett Krummert after tangling with Tony Pangrazio and Steve Slater. Krummert retired from the event while the other two tagged the back of the field.
​The final restart on lap eighteen found King, Sr. and Brachmann going after one another and after some banging of the two cars Brachmann took the lead on lap twenty-seven but King, Sr. fought back and led the next three laps before Brachmann once again did a slide job in turn two to get the lead and went on to pick up the feature win.
​Finishing second was Rex King, Sr. Brian Swartzlander who was involved in the initial start accident came from the back of the pack to challenge for second several times, but ended up third at the stripe. Fourth place went to JR McGinley with Rex King, Jr. making his way from the rear to finish fifth.
​Heat races were won by Garrett Krummert and Chad Brachmann. The BRP Modified Tour was to venture to Hummingbird Speedway on Saturday night but early afternoon rains washed out the program. The next event on the schedule for the BRP Modified Tour will be Sunday, September 5, 2021 at Tri City Raceway. BRP Modified Tour board member Deanne Byers and race car driver Brad Rapps wife, Ashley have put together a Clash for Cash for the upcoming race at Tri City and have raised $1,075 for finishing positions 1-26 with each position receiving at least an extra $25 for each position as well as a few of the laps have $300 extra to be divided between them. They also have collected 13 different contingency awards valued at $100 each to be given away on Sunday night.
​This will make the Labor Day weekend event at Tri City Raceway a special event for the drivers and one you wont want to miss. The BRP Modified Tour would also like to welcome Epertherner Auto Wrecking of Grove City, PA back as a sponsor for the 2021 racing season.

Feature Finish: Chad Brachmann, Rex King, Sr., Brian Swartzlander, JR McGinley, Rex King, Jr., Rick Regalski, Dave Murdick, Brad Rapp, Paul Kot, Shawn Kozar, Tony Pangrazio, Steve Slater, Mark Frankhouser, Garrett Krummert, Rodney Beltz , Eric Gabany, Chris Rudolph and Steve Barr DNS.

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The BRP Modified Tour racing series is a non-profit organization established to give Big Block Modifieds in the Western Pennsylvania/ Eastern Ohio area a chance to compete with one another for a higher purse structure and for a point fund for the scheduled events. The BRP Modified Tour was started in 1998 by Tim Engles, Lon and Pam Baker and Randy Myers. The BRP Modified Tour has had great success at bringing regional cars together at various speedways in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, West Virginia and Canada. We would like to thank the following sponsors for their support of our organization. Bicknell Racing Products, Hoosier Tire Mid-Atlantic, Bazell Race Fuels/Sunoco, Big Daddys Speed Center, Epertherner Auto Wrecking, Frankland Racing Supply, Halls Safety Equipment, King Bros., McCandless Ford, McCools Signs and Graphics, Moores Auto Body, Racequip Safety Equipment, Rockhouse Bar and Grill, Slippery Rock Sportswear, and Wrisco Industries.

Very helpful, very cool thank you for compiling

Good call Eric! We all appreciate Flash and what he does.

Flash, the BRP tour is scheduled to be at Lernerville this weekend if your in the pits, please stop by the tour trailer so I to can express my appreciation!!!

Blessings and again, thank you!!!

Incredible mod race last evening front few cars could have been anyones race!

Thank you Sharon Speedway team for providing a solid show, spectacular facilities and a great racing surface honestly, I anticipated by the time the mods took to the track for the feature the surface would have been blown away or rubbered up it held up very well and provided for great racing!!!

Well done all!!!

Chalk up another win for Mother Nature! Rained out this evening

BRPnot BRO spellcheck is so helpful, my apologies

Flash I owe you dinner my friend

Thanks again flash!!!

Awesome... this will be helpful in so many ways! Blessings to you Wellerfan!

Brachmann wins BRP Modified Tour event at Tyler County
BY SHAWN WOOD

Middlebourne, WV, May 1, 20201.. Chad Brachmann made the long tow from Sandborn, N.Y. pay off on Saturday night when he held off a hard-charging Garrett Krummert over the middle stages of the 35-lap feature to record the $3,000 win and his first BRP Modified Tour triumph of 2021 at the Tyler County Speedway.

By luck of the draw, Brachmann would start on the pole for the feature but it would be outside pole sitter Brad Rapp getting the jump into turn one and taking the lead.
Rapp would lead the first seven circuits before Brachmann took the lead in a wild, three-wide battle on the front stretch coming to the line. It got dicey for a few laps, Brachmann said of the battle for the lead. The preferred line was the outside line and Brad was running it until he bobbled.
On the lap five restart, Rapp continued to lead the field until turn two when Brachmann drove under Rapp and lead on the backstretch while Krummert pulled alongside Rapp on the backstretch. Brachman would go high in turn three, opening the door for Rapp and Krummert to get under him and thats when Brachmann turned his car hard and came down the banking to make it a three-car battle for the lead with Brachmann on the low side, Krummert in the middle and Rapp on the outside with King Jr. following Krummerts tire tracks.
Brachmann led briefly at the line while Rapp took the outside line and Krummert went low. As the four cars entered the first turn, Rapp would spin out on his own to bring out the caution just as Brachmann had made the pass on Krummert for the lead on the low side of the first and second turns. The key to making that pass was when they (Rapp and Krummert) slid up in front of me, I knew I to turn hard to turn the car inside to get a run-down off the banking, Brachmann said. You have to take any opportunity that you can when you have a small little bull ring like that.
Brachmann would spend the next segment of the race holding off Krummert until he was able to get his car to the high side and open up his lead in the late stages of the race. Brachmanns night almost came to end with under 10 to go when he got squeezed up into the front stretch wall by a lapped car, but was able to continue on and not lose any momentum or his lead over Krummert. I was worried that it was going to do damage to the car, but I kind of glanced off the guardrail. It was a lot closer than I would have liked, Bachmann added.
Brachman is the sixth different winner in eight races for the BRP Modified Tour at the quarter-mile track. It was Brachmanns seventh win with the Tour which ties him for ninth on the all-time win list with Jim Rasey. Krummert would hold on to finish second with Eric Gabany, JR McGinley, and Kyle Fink rounding out the top five. Sixth through 10th were Rex King Sr., Rapp, Steve Barr, Rick Regalski, and Jim Rasey.
Heats for the 25 big block modifieds were won by Dave Murdick, McGinley, and Krummert.
Friday nights event at Ohio Valley Speedway in Washington, West Virginia, was canceled due to wet grounds. The BRP Modified Tour returns to action on Saturday, May 29 at Hummingbird Speedway.

FINISH: Chad Brachmann, Garrett Krummert, Rex King Jr., Eric Gabany, JR McGinley, Kyle Fink, Rex King Sr., Brad Rapp, Steve Barr, Rick Regalski, Jim Rasey, Tony Pangrazio, Paul Kot, Mike Turner, Mark Frankhouser, Chris Rudolph, Tom Glenn, Dillon Barr, Rodney Beltz, Shawn Kozar, Steve Slater, Nathan McDowell, John Venuto, Mike Dougherty, Dave Murdick.

The BRP Modified Tour racing series is a non-profit organization established to give Big Block Modifieds in the Western Pennsylvania/ Eastern Ohio area a chance to compete with one another for a higher purse structure and for a point fund for the scheduled events. Started in 1998 by Tim Engles, Lon and Pam Baker and Randy Myers. The BRP Modified Tour has had great success at bringing regional cars together at various speedways in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, West Virginia and Canada. We would like to thank the following sponsors for their support of our organization. Bicknell Racing Products, Hoosier Tire Mid-Atlantic, Bazell Race Fuels/Sunoco, Big Daddys Speed Center, Frankland Racing Supply, Halls Safety Equipment, K. Hoffman Door, King Bros., McCandless Ford, McCools Signs and Graphics, Moores Auto Body, Racequip Safety Equipment, Rockhouse Bar and Grill, Slippery Rock Sportswear, and Wrisco Industries.

Rained out this evening... excited to go at it tomorrow at Tyler County!

Come on... lets get behind this!!!

Any thoughts on fans... camper caravan... special deals on camping/tickets/etc if you commit to the entire week?

This could be a great opportunity for area racing to capture.