“Mike Stefanik Double Championships Make NASCAR History. Mike Stefanik has accomplished what no other driver has in the 50-year history of NASCAR. The 39-year-old Coventry, RI driver has won two NASCAR Championships in a single season. Stefanik took the 1997 NASCAR Featherlite Modified Tour championship driving the Burnham Boilers-sponsored Beal & Bacon Motorsports Chevrolet. The 1989 and 1991 Modified Tour champion clinched his third title at the five-eighth mile, high-banked Thompson International Speedway oval. Stefanik won top honors in the 1997 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series, North Division championship hunt driving the Burnham Boilers-sponsored H&H Motorsports Chevrolet. The Dodge Dealers NASCAR 200 at Lime Rock Park (CT), was presented by his sponsor at the famed 1.53 mile Connecticut road course.”(Speedworld)(10-22-97)
