The 2016 NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour was the fourteenth and final season of the

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Whelen Southern Modified Tour The NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour (WSMT) was a stock car racing series owned by NASCAR and operated in the Southeastern United States as part of its Modified Division. The series began in 1989 as the Southern Modified Auto Racing Teams (S. ...

(WSMT). It began at

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on March 12 and concluded at

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on October 6.

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entered the season as the defending Drivers' Champion.

Burt Myers Burt Myers (born December 30, 1975) is a race car driver on NASCAR's Whelen Southern Modified Tour. In 1999, at the age of 23, he became the youngest Bowman Gray Stadium track champion in history and would go on to win 9 more titles in 2001, 2007 ...

won the championship, 20 points in front of George Brunnhoelzl III. The 2016 season was the final season before

merged the two modified tours for 2017.

Drivers

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Schedule

Four of the eleven races in the 2016 season were televised on NBCSN and were on a tape delay basis. ;Notes:

Results and standings

Races

Drivers' championship

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) Bold – Pole position awarded by time. ''Italics'' – Pole position set by final practice results or Owner's points. * – Most laps led. ;Notes: *¹ – Jeremy Gerstner and Gary Putnam received championship points, despite the fact that they did not start the race. *² – Kyle Ebersole and Austin Pickens received championship points, despite the fact that they did not qualify for the race. *³ – Scored points towards the

Whelen Modified Tour The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour (NWMT) (previously the NASCAR Winston Modified Tour and NASCAR Featherlite Modified Series from 1985 until 2005) is a modified stock car racing series owned and operated by NASCAR in the Modified Division. The Mod ...

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