{"id":10680,"date":"2012-09-04T13:05:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=10680"},"modified":"2012-09-04T15:06:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T19:06:28","slug":"cassius-clark-wins-pass-north-auto-value-250-at-speedway-660","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/cassius-clark-wins-pass-north-auto-value-250-at-speedway-660\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassius Clark wins PASS North Auto Value 250 at Speedway 660"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/passnorth-300.gif\" alt=\"PASS North\" class='ngg-singlepic ngg-left'>Farmington, Maine\u2019s Cassius Clark is the 2012 Auto Value 250 champion. Clark capped off an impressive SpeedWeekend run to take the checkered flag in Atlantic Canada\u2019s biggest short track race of the season. The Pro All Star Series points leader won the race ahead of second place D.J. Shaw from Center Conway, New Hampshire and Matt Harris from Fredericton Junction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWow what a run, the King Racing team of Rollie MacDonald gave me a great car tonight and I am thrilled to be the Auto Value 250 champion\u201d said Clark in Speedway 660\u2019s Victory Lane. \u201cI love Canada and to follow up the Atlantic Cat 250 win at Scotia SpeedWorld with Speedway 660\u2019s Auto Value 250 this year is certainly one of the biggest thrills of my racing career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clark led 120 laps en route to his victory and picked up 21 thousand dollars in prize money. John Flemming captured the Modern Electric half way challenge, led 72 laps, finished 8th and takes home more than 67 hundred dollars in prize money.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Fans endured two rain delays during SpeedWeekend Sunday qualifying , but were treated to an exciting Auto Value 250 once the race went green. Several top contenders including Shawn Tucker, Lonnie Sommerville, Ben Rowe, Greg Fahey and Kirk Thibeau had mechanical issues which forced them to retire from the race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is our first Auto Value 250 and we\u2019ll definitely be back next year to try to get to victory lane\u201d said D.J. Shaw. \u201cThe competition here is great, this is a fast race track, the fans are awesome and I can\u2019t wait to come back here next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rick Cashol won the Fredericton Hyundai Street Stock feature. The five-time RV World Street Stock champ finished ahead of Josh Arbeau and 2012 Street Stock Champ Shannon Brake. The Hanwell Village Mart Bandolero feature was captured by Cole Boudreau. The 2012 Bando champ took the victory over Cole Tanner and Dana Hamm-Cameron.<\/p>\n<p>SpeedWeekend 2012 wraps up Sunday afternoon at 2pm when the Enduro 200 takes the green flag at Speedway 660.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmington, Maine\u2019s Cassius Clark is the 2012 Auto Value 250 champion. Clark capped off an impressive SpeedWeekend run to take the checkered flag in Atlantic Canada\u2019s biggest short track race of the season. The Pro All Star Series points leader won the race ahead of second place D.J. Shaw from Center Conway, New Hampshire and [&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":[110,10,5,14972],"tags":[119,135],"class_list":["post-10680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-maine","category-pass","category-touring-series-news","tag-cassius-clark","tag-pass-north"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10680","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=10680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}