There won’t be any short track national championship celebrations in Connecticut this weekend.

Whelen All-American Series national points leader Keith Rocco of Wallingford said Wednesday that he will skip Thursday’s 30-lap SK Modified feature at Thompson International Speedway.

It will mark the second consecutive week that Rocco will skip the SK Modified race at Thompson.

Rocco skipped last week’s event because of a feud with track officials over tire rule issues. Before last week Rocco had not missed an SK Modified event at Thompson this year, or for that matter at Stafford Motor Speedway or the Waterford Speedbowl.

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THOMPSON – Handed the night’s car count sheet for each division Thursday, Thompson International Speedway owner Don Hoenig, took a quick glance and shook his head in dismay.

The sheeted listed 14 cars the track’s NASCAR Whelen All-American Series SK Modified division for the evening.

While Stafford Motor Speedway and the Waterford Speedbowl have consistently attracted 20 or more cars each week for their SK Modified divisions during the 2010 season, the numbers at Thompson have continued to go down through the first six events of their weekly schedule.

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Keith Rocco of Wallingford is on a quest to beat the system when it comes to the formula NASCAR uses to decide the Whelen All-American Series short track national champion.

For Rocco, beating that system would mean getting 18 victories before Sept. 19 in SK Modified features at Stafford Motor Speedway, Thompson International Speedway and the Waterford Speedbowl in fields of more than 20 cars each.

Under the points structure for the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series, a race winner receives two points for every car in the event up to 20 cars.

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Hartford Courant

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