Wings N’ Wheels

EVENT HISTORY

Wings N’ Wheels event was created by track operator Jerry Robinson and former Public Relations Director Pete Zanardi during the 2008 season. Its concept was to feature only race cars with open-wheels: The ISMA Super Modifieds, the Modified Racing Series, the NEMA Midgets and the Speedbowl’s SK Modified division. The other fendered divisions from the Speedbowl weekly series would have the night off.

The inaugural event was heavily promoted and a packed-house filled the Speedbowl. It was undoubtedly the biggest event of the 2008 season and most agree it was the largest crowd at the track since the Funkmaster Flex Late Model Invitational in 2004.

When Terry Eames took back the day-to-day operations prior to the 2009 season, he kept the Wings N’ Wheels event on the schedule, as did Shawn Monahan (2015) and George Whitney (2017) when they took over as General Manager. It continued to be a well-attended marquee event on the schedule for most of its existence.

WINNERS LIST

YEAR	LAPS	SK MODIFIED®	LAPS	MODIFIED	LAPS	SUPER MODIFIED	LAPS	NEMA MIDGET
2008	35	Ron Yuhas Jr	100	Chris Pasteryak	50	Lou Ciccone Jr	25	Randy Cabral
2009	35	Tyler Chadwick	100	Rowan Pennink	50	Lou Ciccone Jr	25	Russ Stoehr
2010	35	Keith Rocco	100	Steve Masse	50	Chris Perley	25	Chris deRitis
2011	35	Keith Rocco	100	Jerry Marquis	50	Chris Perley	25	Todd Bertrand
2012	35	RAIN	100	Tommy Barrett Jr	50	Rob Summers	25	Anthony Marvuglio
2013	35	Keith Rocco	100	Keith Rocco	50	Jon McKennedy	25	Todd Bertrand
2014	35	Jeff Gallup	100	Ted Christopher	50	Mark Sammut	25	John Zych Jr
2015	35	Tyler Chadwick	100	Chris Pasteryak	50	Mike Lichty	25	Seth Carlson
2016	35	Tyler Chadwick	100	Jon McKennedy	50	Mike McVetta	25	John Zych Jr
2017	35	Rob Janovic Jr	100	Ted Christopher	40	Timmy Jedrzejek	25	Avery Stoehr
2018	40	RAIN	100	Keith Rocco	50	RAIN	25	RAIN

Starting with the 5th annual Wings N’ Wheels in 2012, Speedbowl management began adding other open-wheel divisions or touring series to the event. The weekly SK Lights were added for a 25-lap feature and have remained ever since. The NEMA Lites were also added in 2012 and have been a part of Wings N’ Wheels all but one year since.

The ATQMRA Midgets began appearing in 2016 with 25 lap features. The Pro-4 Modifieds were part of Wings N’ Wheels for one season in 2015, which was the only time there were 7 feature events on the card.

The 2018 event was rained out, with only the Modified Racing Series 100 race being rescheduled for the following week.

YEAR	LAPS	SK LIGHT	LAPS	NEMA LITE	LAPS	PRO-4 MODIFIED	LAPS	ATQMRA MIDGET
2012	35	RAIN	25	Avery Stoehr		—		—
2013	35	Corey Barry	25	Scott Bigelow		—		—
2014	35	Randy Churchill Jr		—		—		—
2015	35	Josh Galvin	25	Anthony Payne	25	Rob Richardi Jr		—
2016	35	Cory DiMatteo	25	P.J. Stergois		—	25	Geoffrey Sutton
2017	35	Dana DiMatteo	25	Dylan Duhaime		—	25	Ryan Tidman
2018	40	RAIN	25	RAIN		—	25	RAIN

MISC STATS

• Keith Rocco (SK) and Tyler Chadwick (SK) are the only drivers with 3 career SK Modified wins during Wings N’ Wheels.
• Keith Rocco (Mod/SK), Jon McKennedy (Mod/ISMA) and Avery Stoehr (NEMA/NEMA Lite) are the only drivers with Wings N’ Wheels win in two different divisions/series.
• Keith Rocco’s 5 career wins (3 SK, 2 Mod) are the most overall by any driver.
• Dennis Gada and Kyle James are the only SK Modified Champions since 2005 that haven’t won a Wings N’ Wheels feature race.
• Modified Racing Series, ISMA Super Modifieds and NEMA Midgets have all had 8 different winners over the 11 years this event was held.