Ogle Fights Off Bianchi To Win The Connecticut 100

Tom Ogle's sleek Tour Modified race car, adorned with sponsorship decals and Teddy Christopher's number 13, ready for action on the track.

Tom Ogle extended his points lead to 16 Tuesday night as he held off a late-charging Brian Bianchi for the win. Jeff LeMire got his first podium of the year and held off a hard-charging Torrance Childs for third place.

Ogle was cautiously optimistic Tuesday night as the YesterYear Tour Modified "circus" headed to a tricky Thompson Motor Speedway where the wind was whipping over 20mph at the start of the race. Ogle had success last year at Thompson winning two out of the three races held there, but Ogle had to start behind pole sitter Kenny Allen who set a blistering qualifying time of 18.581 seconds, and Jeff LeMire.

The race went quickly under caution as several drivers got loose coming out of turn 4 on lap 5. ToyMaker Racing driver Gavin Adams took a spin through the infield, but looked fine to continue on as his car had limited damage. Chris Davis and Randy Schuler also found themselves on the infield with the later hitting what looked to be curbing in turn 1 and then struck another ToyMaker Racing driver, Allen Wannamaker, in the left side panel. Wannamaker's car flip over the railing and out of the park in what looked to be a night-ending crash.

When the race resumed, Kenny Allen and Tom Ogle made it look like a two-horse race for awhile until another caution bunched up the field. On the restart, Allen found himself again under pressure from Ogle who eventually got by as Allen slid up into the "marbles" and lost many spots. Allen eventually went a lap down when he collected Jeffery Hardin as the two battled for position.

The waning laps saw a hard-charging Brian Bianchi begin to apply pressure to the front runner Ogle. Bianchi, the defending Series Champion, had been on cruise control much of the night saving his tires. In the end though, Bianchi ran out of laps and Tom Ogle took the victory. "I felt like I had a shot at him. Maybe if the race had a few more laps in it I could have gotten him, but Tom is a great driver and did not make a mistake," Bianchi said in his post-race interview. "He was faster than I was at the end. I think he saved his Hoosiers a little better than I did. All I could do was hold my line and make him take the difficult way around if he was going to try and pass me. I want to thank Brian for racing me clean. Everyone in this League has good race craft which is one of the many aspects that make this League so fun," Ogle said in his post-race interview.

The Series will visit South Boston Speedway for the second time this year next week (Tuesday, June 3) as the drivers will run the Old Dominion 267 before wrapping up the first half of the season and taking the summer off.

Wineinger Wins at Nashville

Darryl Wineinger's Tour Modified Car

Darryl Wineinger became the fourth different winner in the five races that have taken place in the 2025 YesterYear Tour Modified season thus far. Wineinger bested heavy race favorite Tom Ogle to take the victory in Tuesday night's Tennessee 100 from the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway. Allen Wannamaker, Founder of the YesterYear Racing™ League, said, "It's nice to have parity in the League and I was glad to see Darryl win tonight. So many times in various leagues across iRacing you see the same one or two drivers win every week. It can be good for a league when that happens as you have other drivers improving their race craft to compete, but if the league is broadcast it can be a drag and sometimes boring for the audience to watch the same driver win every week."

Wineinger and Ogle were in a "dogfight" most of the night. After winning the pole, Wineinger quickly lost the lead to Ogle early on. As the laps ticked off, Wineinger's car seemed to get better and come in more, whereas Ogle's began to fade a bit. "He was better than me on longer runs tonight. I knew he was going to be quick the whole night when he threw up that qualifying time," Ogle said after the race.

With the win, Wineinger moves into fifth place in the overall standings, but only 11 points behind new points leader Tom Ogle who has a single point lead over Todd Liston. Liston struggled all night with an ill-handling car and will look to bounce back at Thompson next week. Kenny Allen holds down the third spot in the standings followed by Jeffery Hardin.

The Tennessee 100 was the first of three races in a row before the Series takes their summer break. On Tuesday, May 27, the Series heads to Thompson Speedway for the Connecticut 100. And then on June 3, the Series heads back to South Boston Speedway for the Old Dominion 267. Both races will be streamed live by the Virtual Grip Network.

Ogle Bags First Win of Season at Nashville

Tom Ogle's #13 Tour Modified

Tom Ogle picked up his first win of the 2025 YesterYear Racing™ Tour Modified season at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway Tuesday night. Ogle had been plagued throughout the season thus far by bad luck. At Daytona, Ogle struggled to figure out the enigma of how a Tour Modified worked on that track, as did many other drivers. At South Boston and Richmond, Ogle was collected in two incidents that were not his fault. But at Nashville, Ogle figured everything out and put all the pieces together to pick up his first win of the season and move into second place in the overall season standings, 14 points behind Todd Liston. "I've had some bad luck thus far in the season," Ogle said in his post race interview. "It was nice to come out here and win, but I'll say this, this is one of the toughest wins I have had possibly ever. There was just no let up. It was tense and tight the whole night." The race saw 11 caution flags for 23 laps and took 1 hour and 46 minutes to complete, making it one of the longest races the drivers will run all season.

Points leader Liston saw his hopes for a win dashed when he was collected midway through the race. His car was still drivable, but the incident meant that Liston was relegated to driving around the rest of the night to lessen the damage of his points lead. And it paid off. With heavy attrition throughout the night, there were only 18 cars still running at the end of the race which had 26 entries. Liston came home in 9th place scoring his fourth Top 10 of the season.

Darryl Wineinger came home in 2nd place challenging Ogle in the waning laps of the race. "My car was good on longer runs tonight," Wineinger said in his post race interview. "This track is one of those tracks that will eat your tires up and I was pretty conservative with them throughout my stints tonight," Wineinger said. Wineinger finished .308 seconds behind Ogle.

Ryan Pittman rounded out the podium bringing his car home in 3rd. Pittman battled hard for many laps with Rex Hoyle until the two cars collided on lap 276. Pittman got a nose under Hoyle but got his car loose and tapped the rear of Hoyle which was all it took to bring the cars together. Pittman's car was not damaged much from the incident and he stayed out while most of the other drivers, Ogle included, pitted. When the green flag flew for the last time there were 17 laps to go and Pittman did not have the tires to hold off a charging Ogle and Wineinger.

The Series takes a break for a month before coming back to Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway for a much shorter 100-lap sprint race on Tuesday, May 20th, followed by a visit to Thompson Motorsports Park on May 27th, and a second visit to South Boston Speedway on June 3rd.