When the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour visits Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park in 2025, race followers may have the chance to see a particular tribute scheme hit the monitor.
Patrick Emerling, driver of the No. 1 Fleetworks Inc. Modified, will carry a particular tribute scheme, throwing again to Geoffrey Bodine‘s No. 1 Huge Purple Machine owned by Dick Armstrong. The scheme will likely be on the monitor for all three NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour races.
The Whelen Modified Tour will go to Thompson on March 30, August 6 and October 12. All occasions will air dwell on FloRacing.TV.
Emerling gained the opener of the 2025 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour season at New Smyrna Speedway and in addition gained three of 5 Tour-Kind Modified occasions and the championship through the World Sequence week. He completed second within the championship standings in 2024 on the Whelen Modified Tour on the heels of three race wins within the debut yr for the staff.
“It‘s an honor to have the ability to carry this scheme,” Emerling stated. “Geoffrey was a real, hard-nosed Modified racer, who raced in a time the place they ran a number of races per week. To have the ability to have his colours on the Fleetworks No. 1 is particular to our staff and we hope the followers will get pleasure from it. We‘re trying ahead to attending to Thompson and hoping to maintain our momentum rolling.”
Bodine, who had 18 profession NASCAR Cup Sequence wins, could also be most well-known for taking the Hendrick Motorsports No. 5 to Victory Lane at Martinsville Speedway in 1984. Driving for Rick Hendrick, Bodine captured victory throughout a time the place Hendrick was contemplating shutting down the staff. The win helped propel Hendrick into the long run, now with 14 Cup Sequence championships and over 200 wins.
Exterior of the NASCAR Cup Sequence, although – Bodine reduce his enamel racing Modifieds on the short-tracks. Bodine competed in arguably the hardest period of Modified racing – racing towards names like Richie Evans, Jimmy Spencer, Jerry Prepare dinner and extra. A part of Bodine‘s success got here with Dick Armstrong as his automobile proprietor, particularly within the No. 1 Huge Purple Machine. Their Pinto gained 55 races in a single yr in 1978. Bodine gained numerous marquee Modified occasions and championships, together with three titles at Stafford Speedway and 4 of the primary 5 runnings of the Thompson 300.
