Mayhew Steel Products, Inc. (Mayhew Tools) has announced its continued sponsorship of the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Pole Award for the 2023 season. This will be the fifth consecutive year that Mayhew has sponsored the Pole Award, which recognizes the driver with the fastest time in the qualifying rounds, and their crew. This award sponsorship provides an opportunity for Mayhew to present each winning driver with a $1,000 check, while also awarding the crew chief of the team a heavy-duty Dominator Pro Pry Bar. The pry bar, dubbed the ‘Big-Stick,’ is a 13 lb. pry bar ideal for heavy-duty applications where extreme prying force is needed. 

The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour season will kick-off Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023, in Florida at the New Smyrna Speedway as part of the track’s “World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing,” during NASCAR’s Speedweeks. The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour’s 2023 season will include 19 races scheduled throughout most the Northeast, concluding at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia on Oct. 26, 2023. 

“Being a sponsor of the Pole Award throughout this 2023 season gives us an opportunity to support NASCAR in what will be its 75^th year, while also allowing us the opportunity to make a direct impact with the drivers, their crew-chiefs, and their teams, competing in the Whelen Modified Tour,” said John Lawless, President of Mayhew Tools. “We are very much looking forward to another successful race season with all the fans and teams, while recognizing those who will be the 19 Pole Award winners of this season.”

The 2023 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour will consist of the following races:

Date                                 Track

Saturday, Feb. 11           New Smyrna Speedway

Friday, March 31            Richmond Raceway

Saturday, May 6             Monadnock Speedway

Saturday, May 20           Riverhead Raceway

Saturday, May 27           Lee USA Speedway

Saturday, June 10           Seekonk Speedway

Saturday, June 24           Riverhead Raceway

Saturday, July 8               Wall Stadium

Saturday, July 15            New Hampshire Motor Speedway

Saturday, July 29            Claremont Motorsports Park

Saturday, Aug. 5             Lancaster Motorplex

Wednesday, Aug. 16      Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park

Saturday, Aug. 26           Langley Speedway

Saturday, Sept. 2            Oswego Speedway

Saturday, Sept. 9            Monadnock Speedway

Saturday, Sept. 16          Riverhead Raceway

Saturday, Sept. 30          North Wilkesboro Speedway

Sunday, Oct. 8                 Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park

Thursday, Oct. 26           Martinsville Speedway