For the first time since 2019, the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour returns to the state of New Jersey and Wall Stadium Speedway for the Jersey Shore 150 this Saturday night.

Saturday’s race marks the fifth time the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour will visit the third-mile high-banked oval, and the event serves as the eighth race on the 2022 schedule.

In four previous visits to Wall Stadium Speedway, the Tour has seen four different winners. Woody Pitkat was triumphant in the most recent Tour event at the facility, picking up a victory during the 2019 season.

Other winners at Wall include Reggie Ruggiero and brothers John Blewett III and Jimmy Blewett. The only previous NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour winner at Wall Stadium Speedway scheduled to be in action Saturday is Jimmy Blewett.

Below is everything you need to know about Saturday’s Jersey Shore 150 at Wall Stadium Speedway.

Jersey Shore 150 at Wall Stadium Speedway

What to watch for:

If you’re looking for a favorite to win the Jersey Shore 150 this Saturday night at Wall Stadium Speedway, you need not look any further than New Jersey’s own Jimmy Blewett.

The 41-year-old Modified veteran, who will drive for Tommy Baldwin Racing Saturday night, is a four-time Wall Stadium Speedway Modified track champion with countless victories in a variety of divisions at the legendary high-banked oval. In his two previous Tour starts at his home track, he has one victory, two top-five and two top-two finishes.

He’ll do battle with a number of the Tour’s top stars, all of whom hope to deny the local boy a visit to Victory Lane.

Among those with whom Blewett will have to contend is Matt Hirschman, a multi-time winner of Wall Stadium Speedway’s annual Turkey Derby event. Hirschman already has a Tour win this year in the opener at Florida’s New Smyrna Speedway.

Ron Silk enters the Jersey Shore 150 as the Tour championship leader and is one of only six drivers with two top-10 finishes in Tour events at Wall Stadium Speedway. His best finish of seventh came during the 2007 season.

Andrew Krause, whose family took over as promoters at Wall Stadium Speedway a few years ago, is the most recent Modified track champion at Wall Stadium Speedway. He’ll look to keep the Jersey Shore 150 in the family Saturday evening.

Justin Bonsignore, who started from the pole the last time the Tour visited Wall Stadium Speedway, will look to improve upon his finish of 13th in 2019. He has scored two victories this season, but mechanical problems in other races have kept him out of the championship hunt so far.

New Jersey native Danny Bohn returns to Tour competition during the Jersey Shore 150. The driver from Freehold, New Jersey, was a winner earlier this year in the season-opener at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and will be making his first Tour start since 2019.

Dave Sapienza scored one of his nine Tour top-five finishes at Wall Stadium Speedway in 2019 and is the only driver who finished in the top five that day who is scheduled to compete Saturday night.

Other competitors expected to compete include Patrick Emerling, Kyle Bonsignore, Eric Goodale, Tommy Catalano, Jake Johnson and Timmy Solomito.

The complete entry list for the Jersey Shore 150 is available here.

RACE FACTS

Schedule: Garage opens at 1 p.m. ET … Final practice from 3:30-4:30 p.m. ET … Single-car qualifying (two laps) at 6 p.m. ET … Race at 8 p.m. ET

Qualifying: Two consecutive qualifying laps. Fastest lap determines qualifying position. Adjustments or repairs may not be made on the vehicle after the vehicle has taken the green flag at the start/finish line. NASCAR reserves the right to have more than one vehicle engage in qualifying runs at the same time. Starting field for the Jersey Shore 150 is limited to 28 starters including Provisional Positions.

Tire allotment: The maximum tire allotment available for this event is eight (8) tires per team. All tires used for qualifying and the race must be purchased at the track and scanned by Hoosier, unless otherwise approved in advance by the Series Director. Four (4) tires must be used for qualifying and to begin the race. All qualifying tires must remain in impound until released by NASCAR Officials. The remaining tire allotment may be used for practice and/or change tires during the event. The tire change rule is zero (0) tires, any position.