{"id":24652,"date":"2019-02-18T15:45:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=24652"},"modified":"2019-02-18T15:45:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:45:30","slug":"maines-oliver-excited-for-first-season-with-bullring-bash%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2019\/02\/maines-oliver-excited-for-first-season-with-bullring-bash%ef%bb%bf\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine\u2019s Oliver Excited for First Season with Bullring Bash\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Attleboro, Massachusetts (February 18, 2019) \u2014<\/strong>\u00a0Raymond, ME\u2019s Kevin Oliver is the latest Legend Car racer to enter his team into the inaugural Bullring Bash Quarter Mile Challenge. The accomplished Maine racer will pilot his Oliver Family Racing #28 Ford Coupe in the Bullring Bash MSD Legends events at North Woodstock, NH\u2019s White Mountain Motorsports Park (WMMP) and Barre, VT\u2019s Thunder Road Speedbowl and is already brimming with anticipation for the trio of $1,500-to-win events.
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\u201cI went to the Milk Bowl at Thunder Road back in 2012, and it was the first and only time I\u2019ve been to Thunder Road,\u201d Oliver said. \u201cI just loved the track. It created a ton of excitement, and the prospect of racing on that same surface in a Legend Car just seems like a lot of fun. It\u2019s likewise with White Mountain. I first went there two years ago, and the high banks make it a racer\u2019s type of track. You can really drive it in there deep and manhandle a car, and it\u2019s just a lot of fun. So when I saw we were going to have a chance to run at both of those tracks in a mini-series, I had to be there!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The second-generation driver spent much of his early racing career in the Sport Trucks at Maine\u2019s Oxford Plains Speedway. He scored nine career wins in the Sport Trucks at Oxford, including six in 2009 as part of the Oxford Acceleration Series. Oliver was also the 2010 Rookie of the Year in the Sport Series at Scarborough, ME\u2019s Beech Ridge Motor Speedway.
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He then joined the INEX Legend Car ranks in 2015. Despite a limited budget, Oliver quickly became a contender. He scored his first Legends win at Oxford in May 2017 en route to a third-place result in the final points.
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Oliver has also scored top-10 finishes at both WMMP and Maine\u2019s Wiscasset Speedway in appearances with the NELCAR AMSOIL Legends Tour. He enters the Bullring Bash knowing he will be going up against high-level competition but still hopes to make a splash in the three all-star events.
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\u201cI\u2019m a low-budget part-timer for the most part,\u201d Oliver said. I only ran two races last year, and one of them was White Mountain \u2013 that\u2019s a must race for me year-to-year. Because of that, I don\u2019t go into it expecting to go win. There\u2019s guys out there that race a lot more than I do, and they\u2019re very talented. If I could come out with a top-10 racing against some of the best Legend Car guys in the region, that would be really exciting.\u201d
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While Oliver knows he has a tough path ahead on the track, he is still appreciative of the opportunity the Bullring Bash is providing. For drivers like him who don\u2019t have the time and resources to run a full-fledged tour or weekly series, the Bullring Bash is where they can race a few times a year while still being part of something bigger.
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\u201cI think (the Bullring Bash) is a great idea,\u201d he declared. \u201cIt lets somebody like myself say, \u2018well, I\u2019m not going to go run 30 races this year or the NELCAR Tour or something like that. But here\u2019s a chance where I can just race these three races at fun tracks and be part of a mini-battle.\u2019 It welcomes the guys that are more in my shoes, the part-time guys, to get more involved.\u201d
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\u201cI\u2019m just really excited to compete at both of these tracks,\u201d he concluded. \u201cAt White Mountain, I\u2019ve gone from a mid-pack guy to someone that can really run up front and challenge the top drivers. I have no other way to say it than that it\u2019s a racer\u2019s track. It just promotes hard, aggressive driving, and it\u2019s a lot of fun. I\u2019m excited to compete, and I hope we have some good fields to put on some good racing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Attleboro, Massachusetts (February 18, 2019) \u2014\u00a0Raymond, ME\u2019s Kevin Oliver is the latest Legend Car racer to enter his team into the inaugural Bullring Bash Quarter Mile Challenge. The accomplished Maine racer will pilot his Oliver Family Racing #28 Ford Coupe in the Bullring Bash MSD Legends events at North Woodstock, NH\u2019s White Mountain Motorsports Park […]<\/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":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70,10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bullring-bash","category-maine","category-touring-series-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24652","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=24652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24654,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24652\/revisions\/24654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}