{"id":21721,"date":"2017-05-16T19:39:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T23:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=21721"},"modified":"2017-05-16T19:39:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T23:39:24","slug":"friday-night-race-season-opens-at-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2017\/05\/friday-night-race-season-opens-at-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"FRIDAY NIGHT RACE SEASON OPENS AT LEE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"m_-1373314398748900140Style\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7092\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/lee.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"50\" \/>LEE, NH:\u00a0 The 2017 <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_459293787\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Friday<\/span><\/span> Night racing season opens <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_459293788\"><span class=\"aQJ\">this Friday<\/span><\/span> with\u00a0a five-division, 12-race program here at Lee USA Speedway starting at <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_459293789\"><span class=\"aQJ\">7:00 pm<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0The winged super-modifieds lead the way with <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_459293790\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Friday<\/span><\/span> night&#8217;s 30-lap\u00a0feature winner picking up $1,000 and a quick lead in the NASCAR championship\u00a0point standings for this year&#8217;s track title.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-1373314398748900140Style\">Dave Helliwell, last year&#8217;s track champ, has sold his car and joined\u00a0the Bob and Ed Witkum team to drive the multi-time champion No. 21 super-mod.\u00a0Helliwell, of Pelham, N.H., is only in his second season of driving the fast\u00a0supers. He&#8217;ll have plenty of competition from arch-rival Tommy Tombarello,<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-1373314398748900140Style\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-1373314398748900140Style\">of Haverhill, Mike Netishen, in a newly built No. 616, Mike Spurling, Dover,\u00a0N.H., in his immaculate No. 61jr., and Moe Lattime, in the Dick Osborne\u00a0No. 59 from Kingston, N.H.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-1373314398748900140Style\">Late Model sportsmen have a strong field entered with a 30-lap feature\u00a0scheduled. Jimmy Renfrew, George and Billy Helliwell, Jimmy Russell, Jay\u00a0Ryan, Jay Sands and Bobby Melvin are a few of the 25 drivers in that class.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-1373314398748900140Style\">The Hobby Stock, Ironman and Pure Stock divisions also will be in action.\u00a0Practice starts at <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_459293791\"><span class=\"aQJ\">5 p.m.<\/span><\/span>, the first qualifying heat at <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_459293792\"><span class=\"aQJ\">7:00 pm<\/span><\/span> and\u00a0feature races at approximately <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_459293793\"><span class=\"aQJ\">8:15 pm<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEE, NH:\u00a0 The 2017 Friday Night racing season opens this Friday with\u00a0a five-division, 12-race program here at Lee USA Speedway starting at 7:00 pm.\u00a0The winged super-modifieds lead the way with Friday night&#8217;s 30-lap\u00a0feature winner picking up $1,000 and a quick lead in the NASCAR championship\u00a0point standings for this year&#8217;s track title. Dave Helliwell, last year&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lee-usa-new-hampshire","category-new-hampshire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21722,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21721\/revisions\/21722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}