{"id":12949,"date":"2013-06-05T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=12949"},"modified":"2013-06-05T04:12:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T08:12:56","slug":"devils-bowl-speedway-bates-penalized-following-devils-bowl-late-model-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/devils-bowl-speedway-bates-penalized-following-devils-bowl-late-model-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"DEVIL&#8217;S BOWL SPEEDWAY: Bates Penalized Following Devil\u2019s Bowl Late Model Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Driver keeps win, docked points and purse after infraction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WEST HAVEN, VT \u2013 Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway has announced that Late Model stock car driver Hunter Bates has been penalized following his NASCAR Whelen All-American Series victory on Friday, May 31 for a technical violation.<\/p>\n<p>The front tread width on Bates\u2019 No. 9NY Chevrolet was found to exceed the maximum allowable tolerance in post-race inspection, due to the offset of the wheels on the car.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThough Bates will keep credit for the victory, the following penalties have been applied:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7         Loss of $700 winner\u2019s purse, to be redistributed through the full finishing order<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7         Loss of 25 driver championship points<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7         Driver will start last in all Late Model qualifying and feature races on Friday, June 21<\/p>\n<p>Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway promoter Mike Bruno said that while he believes that the infraction was unintentional on the part of Bates and his team, the infractions cannot be overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter looking carefully at the violation with the technical inspection staff, we believe that the infraction was simply an oversight,\u201d Bruno said.  \u201cStill, the integrity of the inspection process needs to be upheld.  Hunter Bates is a good young driver and ran a respectful race.  It\u2019s just an unfortunate situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway returns to action on Friday, June 7 with the People\u2019s United Bank 100 \u2013 the second round of the four-race Vermont State Late Model Championship Series.  The Bond Auto Parts Modifieds, the Renegades, and the Central Vermont Motorcycles Mini Stocks will be in action, along with the first Spectator Races of the season for street-legal vehicles.  Racing is scheduled to begin at 7:00pm.  General admission is $15 for adults, $13 for seniors, and free for children 12 and under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driver keeps win, docked points and purse after infraction WEST HAVEN, VT \u2013 Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway has announced that Late Model stock car driver Hunter Bates has been penalized following his NASCAR Whelen All-American Series victory on Friday, May 31 for a technical violation. The front tread width on Bates\u2019 No. 9NY Chevrolet was found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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":[201,200],"tags":[14980],"class_list":["post-12949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devils-bowl","category-vermont","tag-devils-bowl-speedway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12949","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}