GRIGAS FINISHES IN TOP 10 OF SPEEDWEEKS POINT STANDINGS

brakes hard and spun out. At the end of the race, I was driving hard and sitting in fourth and was saying, ‘I’m ok, I’m sitting in fourth and I’m not going anywhere,’ and I don’t know what happened over there. I went around on the last lap. I may have jumped on the gas a little hard. I know Zach [Sylvester] was right there, and I don’t think he touched me. Maybe somebody else hit me. I don’t know.”

Speedweeks was just the start of Grigas’ 2007 season.

He’s competing full-time on the NASCAR Whelen Modified

Tour this year and also plans to run races on the NASCAR

Whelen Southern Modified Tour and in the True Value

Modified Racing Series when his schedule permits.

“I can’t wait to get back into a racecar,” said Grigas. “I’m

really looking forward to this season.”

Grigas plans to return to the track on March 24th for the

NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour opener at

Caraway Speedway (NC).

“We learned a lot this week, making the car survive nine straight nights,” said Grigas. “We were getting along. We have a couple of new people and it was a learning curve. All week long, I had the worst luck. Hopefully I’ll kick this before hitting the Whelen Modified Tour this year.”

Grigas finished more than half of his races in the top 10 and never came home worse than 14th all week. He appeared to be headed towards another top-10 finish on the final night of Speedweeks on Saturday, when a late-race incident dropped him back.

“The caution came out, and I was wide open, and they all checked up quick,” said Grigas. “I bumped into Teddy [Christopher]. I bumped into him hard, and I was on the

Triple G Scaffolding machine. When he got spun out, Grigas just pointed it back in the right direction and trucked on to the finish. He got through the week without any major damage and a very respectable eighth-place finish in the point standings.

When the Modifieds hit the track at New Smyrna Speedway for the World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing every February, it can seem like more of a big street fight than a race. Competitors from all across the county come to Florida to race Modifieds, and there is plenty of action all week long.

New Smyrna brings a Wild West mentality in racing where anything goes. Some teams were nabbed for rules violations, and some competitors were accused of being over-aggressive.

But sophomore Modified pilot Bobby Grigas III wasn’t paying much attention to any of that. He just wanted to gather the best finishes possible every night with his #09