Story BY: KYLE SOUZA / SADLER-STANLEY RACING – EMPORIA, VA – Sadler-Stanley (SS) Racing is ready for a mega weekend of action to wrap the SMART Modified Tour season. Saturday at North Wilkesboro Speedway, team driver Luke Baldwin is part of the Championship 5, chasing the title for 2024.
The highest finishing of the five drivers in the race will earn the crown. Baldwin will be back in action in his No. 7VA Pace-O-Matic entry, trying to seal up the title in his Rookie season on the SMART Modified Tour.
While Baldwin competes for the title, team drivers Bobby Labonte and Jonathan Cash will also be in action in the finale of the SMART campaign for 2024. On Sunday, Labonte will also drive a car in the Brushy Mountain Powersports 150 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour event for SS Racing, as the NASCAR Hall of Fame driver returns to NASCAR’s oldest touring series.
“I feel really good going into North Wilkesboro,” Baldwin said. “We have a lot of momentum as a team and we had great speed at the test. It will be tough running against these guys with so much experience, but at the end of the day, if we are firing on all cylinders, I feel like we are the best team on the SMART Modified Tour in our PSR Chassis.”
Saturday’s SMART Modified Tour race is set to begin at 7:15 p.m. Before the race, teams will practice at 1 p.m. and qualify at 3:15 p.m. On Sunday, the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour practices from 10:30-11:30 a.m., followed by qualifying at 1 p.m. and the green flag for the Brushy Mountain Powersports 150 at 2 p.m.