{"id":13340,"date":"2013-06-26T14:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T18:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=13340"},"modified":"2013-06-26T00:23:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T04:23:13","slug":"coolidge-motorsports-chris-coolidge-posts-top-5-at-oxford-plains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/coolidge-motorsports-chris-coolidge-posts-top-5-at-oxford-plains\/","title":{"rendered":"COOLIDGE MOTORSPORTS: Chris Coolidge Posts Top-5 At Oxford Plains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Chris-Coolidge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Chris-Coolidge-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Coolidge\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Chris-Coolidge-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Chris-Coolidge.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>Oxford Championship Series: Chris Coolidge<br \/>\nOxford Plains Speedway Race Report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OXFORD, Maine \u2013 Chris Coolidge of Norway, Maine, finished fifth in the Oxford Championship Series 40-lap Pro Late Model feature event at Oxford Plains Speedway in Oxford, Maine, on Friday, June 21. Coolidge started on the pole in the 15-car field and led the first nine laps before yielding the top spot as the handling on the No. 72 Bill&#8217;s Automotive\/Lloyd&#8217;s Land Chevrolet started to go away. Coolidge fell as low as seventh in the running order but rallied late to post his second consecutive Top-5 finish in Oxford&#8217;s top division.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>WHO<\/strong>: Chris Coolidge, Norway, Maine<br \/>\n<strong>CREW CHIEF<\/strong>: Bill Coolidge, West Paris, Maine<br \/>\n<strong>TEAM<\/strong>: Coolidge Motorsports No. 72 Bill&#8217;s Automotive\/Lloyd&#8217;s Land Chevrolet<br \/>\n<strong>WHAT<\/strong>: Oxford Championship Series Pro Late Model 40<br \/>\n<strong>WHERE<\/strong>: Oxford Plains Speedway, Oxford, Maine (.375-mile oval)<br \/>\n<strong>STARTED<\/strong>: 1st<br \/>\n<strong>FINISHED<\/strong>: 5th<br \/>\n<strong>POINT POSITION<\/strong>: 6th<br \/>\nNEXT RACE: June 28, OCS Pro Late Model 40, Oxford Plains Speedway, Oxford, Maine (.375-mile oval)<\/p>\n<p>********<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHRIS, HOW DOES IT FEEL TO COME AWAY WITH ANOTHER TOP-5 FINISH AFTER ALL YOUR BAD LUCK TO START THE SEASON?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt feels really good. It makes it a lot more fun to go to the track every week, I can tell you that.<br \/>\nThese last couple of weeks have been good for us. Don&#8217;t get me wrong \u2013 we still have a lot to do and a lot to figure out. But considering where we were before, this gives us a lot of confidence that we&#8217;re going in the right direction every week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WAS THE CAR AS GOOD AS IT WAS THE LAST TIME OUT WHEN YOU FINISHED SECOND?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe car was decent. It wasn&#8217;t quite as good as it had been, but it wasn&#8217;t terrible, either. It felt like it didn&#8217;t quite steer through the middle of the corner like the week before. I was having to fight it a bit more getting through there than I did last week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE HAVE YOU GUYS PUT MOST OF YOUR FOCUS THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s kind of a combination of two different things. It&#8217;s been tight in the center, and it&#8217;s been a little free coming off the corners. We&#8217;ve worked on making that better. The good thing is that we don&#8217;t feel like we need to keep making bigger changes. We just need to keep making some smaller adjustments to get it better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford Championship Series: Chris Coolidge Oxford Plains Speedway Race Report OXFORD, Maine \u2013 Chris Coolidge of Norway, Maine, finished fifth in the Oxford Championship Series 40-lap Pro Late Model feature event at Oxford Plains Speedway in Oxford, Maine, on Friday, June 21. Coolidge started on the pole in the 15-car field and led the first [&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":[10,124],"tags":[15256],"class_list":["post-13340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maine","category-oxford-plains-spedway","tag-coolidge-motorsports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13340","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=13340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}