SEEKONK, Mass. — The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour returns to the northeast this weekend for a trip to the famed Cement Palace of Seekonk Speedway.
Open to the public since 1946, the Venditti family have overseen a proud, vibrant racing culture at Seekonk that includes Modified competition. The list of names who have won a weekly Modified Seekonk includes many of the discipline’s greatest drivers like Bugsy Stevens, Ron Bouchard and Geoff Bodine, among others.
Although Modifieds are no longer at the forefront of Seekonk’s weekly racing program, the facility has intermittently hosted NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour races since 1987. Saturday’s J&R Precast 150 marks the third consecutive year Seekonk has been on the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour calendar.
Seekonk’s confined layout leaves little margin for error and requires constant precision around the facility’s wide, fast corners. Consistency around Seekonk will be imperative for drivers this weekend if they wish to join an exclusive group of NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour winners at the historic facility.
Tickets to the J&R Precast 150 can be purchased here. Below is everything to know ahead of the fourth race of the 2025 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour season.
Ever since the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour returned to Seekonk Speedway, no driver has been more dominant than Matt Hirschman.
After leading every lap at Seekonk in 2023, Hirschman put together a spirited drive last season to earn his second consecutive victory there. Relegated to eighth on the starting grid following a redraw that shuffled him from the pole, Hirschman methodically worked his way toward the front before passing Austin Beers with 21 laps remaining.
Beers was the one who inherited the pole in 2024 due to the redraw and would end up leading a race-high 129 laps. Still searching for his first victory of the 2025 season, Beers seeks to replicate his strong Seekonk performance and usurp points leader Craig Lutz in the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour standings.
Lutz’ triumph at North Wilkesboro Speedway gave him a one-point advantage over Beers and reigning series champion Justin Bonsignore. Holding that lead after the J&R Precast 150 will require Lutz to obtain his first top five at Seekonk since 2019, where he placed third behind race-winner Doug Coby.
The last two drivers within single digits of Lutz’s points lead are Luke Baldwin and Stephen Kopcik. Baldwin led 19 laps at North Wilkesboro before settling for a strong runner-up finish, while Kopcik earned a career-best showing of fourth at Seekonk last season.
Other names set to compete at Seekonk on Saturday evening include Jon McKennedy, Jake Johnson, Eric Goodale, Chase Dowling, Kyle Ebersole and Dave Sapienza, among others.
