{"id":22347,"date":"2017-10-01T09:01:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T13:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=22347"},"modified":"2017-10-01T09:01:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T13:01:59","slug":"lee-usa-speedway-prepares-for-huge-oktoberfest-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2017\/10\/lee-usa-speedway-prepares-for-huge-oktoberfest-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee USA Speedway prepares for huge Oktoberfest weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"m_2733581150330706465Style\">LEE, NH:\u00a0\u00a0Plans continue to develop for the season-ending 34th annual<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17085\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17085\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17085\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/170423-lee-14-e1493072435654.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo by Rich Hayes<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"m_2733581150330706465Style\">Oktoberfest of Racing here at Lee USA Speedway with a $50,000 purse announced this week for the 10-division program\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1990096598\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Saturday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1990096599\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Sunday<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0October\u00a07<sup>th<\/sup>-8th.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2733581150330706465Style\">Drivers and cars from various New England speedways will be joining the Lee regulars for the traditional special season finale.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2733581150330706465Style\">Super-modifieds,\u00a0the Valenti modified tour and pro stocks lead the list of well over 200 race cars expected for the full 22-race program\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1990096601\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Saturday<\/span><\/span>, with practice at\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1990096602\"><span class=\"aQJ\">noon<\/span><\/span>, and eight feature races\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1990096603\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Sunday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0with the green flag at\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1990096604\"><span class=\"aQJ\">noon<\/span><\/span>.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2733581150330706465Style\">Heat races\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1990096605\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Saturday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0will include super-mods, modifieds, pro stocks, classic lite stocks, pro-four modifieds,\u00a0and super street stocks. Feature events will include a 30-lap pure stock, 30-lap pro-four modified and a strictly stock 25-lap main event.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2733581150330706465Style\"><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1990096606\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Sunday&#8217;s<\/span><\/span>\u00a0all-feature race part of the twinbill will include the<br \/>\nAdvanced Gas Distributors 75-lap Oktoberfest championship feature for<br \/>\nmodifieds, a 50-lap, $1,500-to-win pro stock feature and a 50-lap late model super-stock main event.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2733581150330706465Style\">Super-modifieds will run a 30-lap feature race\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1990096607\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Sunday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0with\u00a0$1,000 going to the winner.\u00a0Late model super-street cars\u00a0will run a\u00a0\u00a0 50-lap feature with hobby stocks in a 30-lap main event.\u00a0The ironmen and roadrunner stocks will each run 30-lap features with Classic lites in a 20-lap main event.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2733581150330706465Style\">All divisions also will have an open practice session throughout the day\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1990096608\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Friday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0between<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1990096609\"><span class=\"aQJ\">3pm and 7pm<\/span><\/span>.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2733581150330706465Style\">Racing\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1990096610\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Saturday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1990096611\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Sunday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0will run throughout the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEE, NH:\u00a0\u00a0Plans continue to develop for the season-ending 34th annual Oktoberfest of Racing here at Lee USA Speedway with a $50,000 purse announced this week for the 10-division program\u00a0Saturday\u00a0and\u00a0Sunday,\u00a0October\u00a07th-8th. Drivers and cars from various New England speedways will be joining the Lee regulars for the traditional special season finale. Super-modifieds,\u00a0the Valenti modified tour and pro [&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-22347","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\/22347","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=22347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22348,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22347\/revisions\/22348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}