The passing of Auto Racing Research Associates founding member Bill Hanna was a blow to our research efforts as a whole. Bill was one of the more active researchers and constantly had a project in the works or ongoing! Bill had presented this package of stats to both Bill Sr and Jr as a momento of the 2019 New Jersey dirt modified racing season, which saw them win the headline modified division championships at their respective tracks in NJ. The New Egypt Speedway for Billy Jr. and the Bridgeport Speedway for Senior. As it turned out...this accomplishment where a Father and Son won championships in their respective tracks in the same year is quite rare. A query amongst the members of ARRA found that maybe only the combination of Bob Kinser and his Son Randy turned the trick in 1993 when Bob won the sprint car title at the Paragon Speedway while son Randy took the sprint car title at the Bloomington Speedway. But that weren't enough for the Kinser clan...other Son Steve nabbed the World of Outlaws title that year also!

This project was supposed to be passed along for inclusion on this website after the Pauch's were presented their packages. It never made it here due to Bill's untimely passing. We recently acquired this file after Bill's Daughter Kim got into his files and offered ARRA the chance to go through his files to see what he had that might be valuable to ARRA's purpose. It was this file that I was particularly concerned about getting, again, because it was one of...if not THE final project that he had finished before he left us. So, with that in mind....it is with special pride to present the final work of Bill Hanna. May he be a

part of us forever!

Bill's project detailed the weekly modified efforts put forth by both Sr. and Jr. on their way to winning their respective tracks modified season championship. Click each date that will take you to that weeks track press release detailing the nights modified action and pointing out where each driver finished out the nights modified feature.