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Capital Bank
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Concord Speedway
March 19th, 2009
 
Whelen Modified
Online Tour
Official Race Results

1. Richie Coy
2. Rex Hoyle
3. Bobby Ambroceo
4. Zach Truesdail
5. Tony Hanbury
6. Joe Doiron
7. AJ Griffin
8. Mike Whiting
9. Dennis Frates
10. Mike House
11. Chris Rogers
12. Shawn Reap
13. Keith Joseph
14. Scott Bryant
15. JD Laird
16. Rick Dutra
17. Ryan Curran
18. Charli Brown
19. Chris O'Shell

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March 19th, 2009
Richie Coy goes back to back, wins the Capital Bank 100 at Concord! - By Charli Brown

Richie Coy became the first repeat winner of 2009 as he held off a hard charging Rex Hoyle to win the Capital Bank 100 at Concord Speedway, Thursday night.

Concord, NC - Richie Coy held off a late race charge from Rex Hoyle to win his second straight Whelen Modified Online Tour feature event Thursday night in the Capital Bank 100 at Concord Speedway.

Walpole, Massachusetts’ Bobby Ambroceo set fast time to win his first NPGPro.com Pole Award of 2009 with a lap time of 15.154 seconds at 118.781 Miles Per Hour over Chris O’Shell, Charli Brown, Rex Hoyle and Joe Doiron who rounded out the top five.

The 2008 SIModified.com “Rookie of the Year” led the field to the green flag with Charli Brown quickly sneaking past Chris O’Shell as the field raced to turn one. Ambroceo would lead the early stages of the event and survive a close call with Charli Brown who was racing to his outside for the lead on a restart on lap 11. Brown’s grinding crash in the dogleg collected the third place car of Chris O’Shell and ended both of the drivers’ night early. Current point leader Richie Coy was also involved, but drove away with no damage after spinning to avoid the incident.

Berwick, Maine’s Joe Doiron would wage a two lap, side-by-side battle with Bobby Ambroceo on the following restart before taking the top spot on lap 18. Doiron continued to lead to the KING Design Halfway Leader lap over Richie Coy (who picked up valuable track position with a two tire pit stop on lap 30) Tony Hanbury, Zach Truesdail and Rex Hoyle. Sixth through tenth were Bobby Ambroceo, Keith Joseph, JD Laird, AJ Griffin and Mike Whiting.

Joe Doiron and Richie Coy battled for the lead with a thrilling side-by-side race with Coy’s Stewart’s Root Beer machine finally taking command on lap 56 and led to the race’s fourth caution for a spin by Chris Rogers on turn three.

The Concord Speedway lends itself to high speeds and scary wrecks and the following restart would prove this to be a fact. Third place driver Joe Doiron was looking for a spot inside Tony Hanbury as the field raced to turn three on the following restart with Doiron’s TS Haulers machine slightly tapping Tony Hanbury’s left rear nerf bar as the two entered the corner. Several drivers were also involved in the wreck including JD Laird, Mike House and Scott Bryant. Everyone would drive away except for JD Laird, who had to be towed back to pit road after ending up on his roof at the bottom of the race track. Quick pit work by Laird’s team got him back out to finish the event.

This put the race’s pole sitter Bobby Ambroceo right behind race leader Richie Coy for the remaining 30 laps. Coy fought off a hard challenge from Ambroceo for several laps until Rex Hoyle made his way into the second spot on lap 78.

The 2007 Whelen Modified Online Tour Summer Season champion set his sights on the current champion and point leader and with just 15 laps to go, the top three cars were nose to tail for the lead. Hoyle and Ambroceo were both on fresher Hoosier tires, while race leader Richie Coy had only taken two right side tires earlier in the race.

With just five laps to go it was a two-man race with Rex Hoyle right in the tire tracks of the race leader as they closed in on lapped traffic, but a final late race caution ended the race behind the Chevrolet pace car.

Richie Coy came home for his second straight win over Rex Hoyle, Bobby Ambroceo, Zach Truesdail and Tony Hanbury. Sixth through tenth were Joe Doiron, AJ Griffin, Mike Whiting, Dennis Frates and Mike House.

Coy also won the Powerade “Power Move of the Race” Award for his charge from the seventeenth starting position while also winning the Mends Image Most Laps Led Award. Joe Doiron won the Fastech Race Car Bodies “Fastest Lap of the Race” Award and Rex Hoyle took home the Featherlite Most Improved Driver Award. Chris O’Shell received the Hoosier “Hard Luck” Award.

Next week, the Whelen Modified Online Tour heads to the Ace Speedway in Altamahaw, North Carolina for the Adams Towing and Recovery 100. Richie Coy holds the early point lead by 35 points over Tony Hanbury, Zach Truesdail, Joe Doiron and Rex Hoyle.