For simply the fourth time in collection historical past, the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour will journey to in North Woodstock, New Hampshire, for Saturday evening’s operating of the Thunder within the Mountains 200 (8 p.m. ET on ).
The quarter-mile asphalt oval, which opened for enterprise in 1993, first hosted the Modified Tour in 2020. 4-time collection champion Justin Bonsignore gained the primary Modified Tour occasion on the observe with Doug Coby and Kyle Bonsignore additionally amassing victories inside the previous couple of years.
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This 12 months, greater than 20 drivers are anticipated to chase the checkered flag at White Mountain Motorsports Park, which can host the seventh race of the 2026 Modified Tour season.
Tickets to Saturday’s Thunder within the Mountains 200 can be found trackside. Under is every little thing you could learn about Saturday’s race.
Drivers line up for the Thunder within the Mountains 200 for the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour at White Mountain Motorsports Park in North Woodstock, New Hampshire on Saturday, July 29, 2025. (Jaiden Tripi/ARCA Racing)
Thunder within the Mountains 200 at White Mountain Motorsports Park
Jon McKennedy appears to have figured one thing out.
The 2022 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour champion has gained two of the final three occasions on the schedule — at Seekonk Speedway and Oxford Plains Speedway — permitting him to tug inside 9 factors of championship chief Stephen Kopcik after six occasions this season.
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McKennedy will try and maintain that momentum going Saturday at White Mountain Motorsports Park through the Thunder within the Mountains 200. He has a finest end of fourth in his three earlier White Mountain begins and can try so as to add a win to his ledger Saturday evening.
Stephen Kopcik continues to steer the Modified Tour standings coming into Saturday’s race at White Mountain. One season in the past, Kopcik completed a detailed second to winner Kyle Bonsignore, which routinely makes Kopcik a favourite to win the Thunder within the Mountains 200 aboard the Wanick Motorsports No. 21.
Doug Coby, who gained the second Modified Tour race held at White Mountain in 2020, returns to the collection for one more begin within the Jett Motorsports No. 28. Ronnie Williams, who’s contemporary off a top-five end in the newest Modified Tour occasion at Oxford Plains Speedway, will once more be a part of the sector Saturday evening at White Mountain.
Dave Sapienza might be a sleeper contender throughout Saturday’s race. In his two earlier begins at White Mountain, Sapienza has secured a pair of top-10 finishes. He’s one among solely seven drivers to complete within the high 10 throughout at the very least two of the earlier three collection occasions at White Mountain.
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Different notable entrants embody defending Modified Tour champion Austin Beers, Patrick Emerling, Tyler Rypkema, Mike Christopher Jr., Eric Goodale, Matt Hirschman, Paulie Hartwig III and Jayden Harman, amongst others.
The entire entry listing for Saturday’s Thunder within the Mountains 200 will likely be obtainable later this week.
The inexperienced flag is waved through the Thunder within the Mountains 200 for the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour at White Mountain Motorsports Park in North Woodstock, New Hampshire on Saturday, July 29, 2025. (Jaiden Tripi/ARCA Racing)
RACING REFERENCE:
Race
Thunder within the Mountains 200
Date
Saturday, June 20, 2026
Observe
White Mountain Motorsports Park
Format
Quarter-mile asphalt oval
Location
North Woodstock, New Hampshire
Begin time
8 p.m. ET
Laps
200
Posted Awards
$106,132
Tickets
At observe
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SCHEDULE: Saturday, June 20: Follow from 3 – 3:45 p.m. ET … Remaining follow from 3:55 to 4:25 p.m. ET … American Racer Pole Award qualifying at 6 p.m. ET … Begin of the Thunder within the Mountains 200 at 8 p.m. ET (200 Laps / 50 Miles)
QUALIFYING: Two consecutive qualifying laps. Sooner lap determines qualifying place. Changes or repairs is probably not made on the car after the car has taken the inexperienced flag initially/end line. NASCAR reserves the precise to have a couple of car have interaction in qualifying runs on the similar time. Beginning discipline for the Thunder within the Mountains 200 is restricted to twenty-eight starters together with Provisional Positions.
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TIRE ALLOTMENT: The utmost tire allotment obtainable for this occasion is ten (10) tires per staff. All tires used for qualifying and the race have to be bought on the observe and scanned by NASCAR Officers, except in any other case permitted prematurely by the Collection Director. 4 (4) tires have to be used for qualifying and to start the race. All qualifying tires should stay in impound till launched by NASCAR Officers. The remaining tire allotment could also be used for follow and/or change tires through the occasion. A most of two (2) tires of the allotment could also be used as change tires. The tire change rule is 2 (2) tires per cease. This consists of “swapping” tires entrance to again.
RE-DRAW PROCEDURE: The quickest qualifier will spin the wheel to find out the variety of drivers that may re-draw for his or her beginning positions: 4, 6, 8 or 10 positions will re-draw. As soon as the quickest qualifier spins the wheel, NASCAR could have the varied buckets prepared to right away begin the re-draw process. Driver will re-draw of their qualifying order after qualifying has been accomplished (1 by means of 10, or nevertheless many are relevant). The pole place and/or any bonus level(s), if relevant, will likely be awarded to the quickest qualifier and would be the pole of document. If, as a consequence of hostile circumstances, qualifying is canceled, the sector will likely be set in accordance with the 2026 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Rule Ebook. The re-draw process will nonetheless happen no matter how the sector is about.
