{"id":21758,"date":"2017-06-06T22:34:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T02:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=21758"},"modified":"2017-06-06T22:34:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T02:34:54","slug":"new-challenger-to-beat-friday-at-lee-usa-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2017\/06\/new-challenger-to-beat-friday-at-lee-usa-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"New challenger to beat Friday at Lee USA Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"m_1431354510957545166Style\"><b><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:<\/b> &#8212; An unlikely but impressive new challenger highlights this <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_167246699\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Friday<\/span><\/span> night&#8217;s super-modified division in a 16-race, seven-division program here at Lee USA Speedway.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_1431354510957545166Style\"><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_1431354510957545166Style\">John Burke, a 15-year racing veteran who now makes his home in Boston, has made a spectacular debut with two feature wins this season driving an all-newly built winged &#8220;wedge&#8221; super-mod. The low-slung clever-looking car was built over the winter by Oswego Speedway legend and long-time car-designer Mike Muldoon.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_1431354510957545166Style\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_1431354510957545166Style\">Burke won last Friday night&#8217;s main event, leading all 30 laps to pocket $1,000 for the win.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_1431354510957545166Style\">Burke is plenty of competition for former track champions Dave Helliwell and Tommy Tombarello, who finished second and third last week. Burke&#8217;s No.01 super-mod sets just two inches off the race track and\u00a0uses corner speed for unusually quick exits.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_1431354510957545166Style\">Both Helliwell and Tombarello also have quick cars while Leslie Keyser also has a new super-modified in <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_167246700\"><span class=\"aQJ\">this Friday&#8217;s<\/span><\/span> field. In all, at least a dozen super-mods will be running.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_1431354510957545166Style\">George Helliwell, the super-mod driver&#8217;s younger brother, will be trying to avenge a last-lap, last-turn spinout while leading that cost him last Friday&#8217;s 30-lap sportsman division feature win. Helliwell was spun\u00a0by Jay Sands, who went on to win but was placed eleventh for his action,\u00a0and Helliwell crossed the finish line in 6<sup>th<\/sup> backwards.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_1431354510957545166Style\"><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_1431354510957545166Style\">Along with super-mods, sportsman cars and hobby stocks, <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_167246700\"><span class=\"aQJ\">this Friday&#8217;s<\/span><\/span> racing will include Classic Lites, pure stocks, ironmen stocks, and a full field of the Senior Auto Racing Tour division in heats plus a pair of 20-lap feature events.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_1431354510957545166Style\">Practice starts at <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_167246702\"><span class=\"aQJ\">5pm<\/span><\/span> with the first of eight qualifying heats at <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_167246703\"><span class=\"aQJ\">7pm<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEE, NH: &#8212; An unlikely but impressive new challenger highlights this Friday night&#8217;s super-modified division in a 16-race, seven-division program here at Lee USA Speedway. \u00a0 John Burke, a 15-year racing veteran who now makes his home in Boston, has made a spectacular debut with two feature wins this season driving an all-newly built winged [&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-21758","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\/21758","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=21758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21759,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21758\/revisions\/21759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}