{"id":10189,"date":"2012-07-10T14:30:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T18:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=10189"},"modified":"2012-07-10T06:27:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T10:27:00","slug":"pass-super-late-models-and-rusty-wallace-at-thompson-this-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/pass-super-late-models-and-rusty-wallace-at-thompson-this-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"PASS SUPER LATE MODELS AND RUSTY WALLACE AT THOMPSON THIS THURSDAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/thompson.gif\" alt=\"Thompson\" class='ngg-singlepic ngg-left'>The Pro All Star Series 75 tops the bill this Thursday at the Thompson International Speedway. The Super Late Models of the PASS Tour have been a mainstay and a fan favorite at Thompson for several years. These extremely fast race cars traditionally offer an excellent race program of qualifying heat races and an edge-of-the seat feature races.<\/p>\n<p>                To make the program even more enjoyable, California Paints will bring their \u201cStorm System\u201d spokesman, Rusty Wallace, the 1989 Sprint Cup champion and soon-to-be inducted member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame to Thompson for a brief meet and greet session with fans and company employees. A few lucky fans will be given the opportunity to have Rusty answer their questions and he will also sign a limited number of autographs.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/passnorth-300.gif\" alt=\"PASS North\" class='ngg-singlepic ngg-left'>                The current PASS points leader, Travis Benjamin of Morrill, Maine, will lead a strong field of these amazing race cars to Thompson. Chasing Benjamin in the points standings are other top contenders Johnny Clark, Cassius Clark , Joey Doiron, and D.J Shaw. Johnny Clark is the defending 2011 race winner. Local favorite, Derek Ramstrom, sits sixth in the current points standings but is expected to be a serious contender for the race win. Ramstrom won the event back in 2009. Ramstrom will find some tough local competition as well. Ted Christopher has landed a ride for the PASS 75-lap main and this sets the stage for another rivalry to unfold.<\/p>\n<p>                The PASS Super Late Models will qualify for their 75-lap feature event through heat races. Heat races will also be the means of qualifying for feature races for Thompson\u2019s own \u201cSuper 6\u201d NASCAR Whelen All-American Series divisions. <\/p>\n<p>                The points battles for the Thompson divisions are heating up at the season\u2019s midpoint. Ryan Preece sits atop the Sunoco Modified points total with John Lowinski-Loh, Jr. holding the number one spot in the Thompson Modified division. Late Model competitor Tommy O\u2019Sullivan holds a slim margin in his division and LKQ\/Keystone Lite Modified driver, Cam McDermott is riding high in the points standings. The XTRA\/MART Limited Sportsman division ha Scott Sundeen leading the charge and Chad Baxter has the lead in the Monster Mini Stocks.<\/p>\n<p>Grandstands will open early at 1 PM with practice starting at 1:30 PM. Qualifying is slated to start at 6PM. The day\u2019s complete schedule is available on the Thompson web page. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pro All Star Series 75 tops the bill this Thursday at the Thompson International Speedway. The Super Late Models of the PASS Tour have been a mainstay and a fan favorite at Thompson for several years. These extremely fast race cars traditionally offer an excellent race program of qualifying heat races and an edge-of-the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[196,5,41,14972],"tags":[135],"class_list":["post-10189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-pass","category-thompson","category-touring-series-news","tag-pass-north"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}