THOMPSON, Conn. Ron Silk survived a close call on pit lane to win Wednesdays NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Icebreaker 150 at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park. The event was twice rained out earlier in the season.

Silk turned in a dominant performance but made contact with rival Justin Bonsignore leaving the pits late in the race and spun. While Bonsignores machine received minor damage, Silk continued without losing any ground on leader Paterick Emerling.

Silk ran down Emerling and raced to his 27th career NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour win and his eighth overall at Thompson.

I was pretty confident if I got a good restart and got to the lead, I would be able to hold them off, Silk said. My car drove great. The first 40 laps or so we were a little bit free, but we fixed that on the pit stop. The car was just spot-on after that.

Emerling, who was piloting a Geoff Bodine tribute scheme, endured an eventful evening of his own. After losing control of his Modified on Lap 64, problems in the pit lane for Emerling resulted in him falling a lap behind the leaders, which he quickly regained on an ensuing yellow flag.

Going off-sequence from the leaders enabled Emerling to salvage a runner-up finish.

That was an absolutely insane run by the team, Emerling said. We got stuck a lap down, but luckily there was quick caution there. We got our lap back and we passed a ton of cars. Our car was feeling good on those old tires, but that was an insane run.

Trevor Catalano finished third, with Austin Beers and Bonsignore completing the top five.

Chase Dowling, Stephen Kopcik, polesitter Jon McKennedy, Tommy Catalano and Matt Swanson completed the top 10.