{"id":14058,"date":"2013-08-07T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=14058"},"modified":"2013-08-07T05:22:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T09:22:50","slug":"john-poor-memorial-offers-over-8500-for-coupes-at-bear-ridge-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/john-poor-memorial-offers-over-8500-for-coupes-at-bear-ridge-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"John Poor Memorial offers over $8,500 for Coupes at Bear RIdge Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cMadness\u201d event draws huge purse, USAC Midgets back in town<\/em><\/p>\n<p>BRADFORD, VT \u2013 Bear Ridge Speedway \u2013 \u201cThe Home of the Coupes\u201d \u2013 has posted a mammoth prize purse for its iconic Wells River Chevrolet Sportsman Coupe division at the John Poor Memorial presented by Walker Motor Sales of Woodsville, NH on Saturday.  Between the finish payout and bonus lap money raised by race teams through various sponsors, more than $8,500 is up for grabs.  The race, named in honor of late Bear Ridge official John Poor, will be run in the popular \u201cMadness\u201d segmented format with full-field inversions and cumulative scoring, with bonus money paid to each of the top-five runners on every lap.<\/p>\n<p>      Jason Colbeth of Newbury, VT became the latest winner in the division at last week\u2019s Interstate Batteries of New-Mont event.  Colbeth joins Teddy Salomaa, Kane Pike Josh Harrington, Melvin Pierson, Louie Cadwell, Martin Mastic and rookie Danny Doyle as feature winners in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The cars and stars of the USAC Dirt Midget Association powered by Ignite Racing Fuels are back in action for Walker Motor Sales Night. Bear Ridge favorite Kevin \u201cThe Fairlee Flier\u201d Chaffee leads the points entering the event, with former Champion \u201cFlat Foot\u201d Joe Krawiec second.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe rest of the 99ROCK Weekly Racing Series divisions will also be in action, as Adam Pierson of Fairlee, VT seeks his ninth career track title in the Bond Auto Parts DIRTcar Sportsman Modifieds, Lebanon, NH chauffer Jason Giguere looks for his 11th Feature win in the Laquerre\u2019s Sports Limited Late Models, Tim Martin of White River Jct, VT tops the Weglarz Property Service Fast Fours, and Stan Otterman leads the KDD NAPA Auto Parts Hornet points.<\/p>\n<p>Regular general admission for Walker Motor Sales Night is $10 for adults (age 18-61), $8 for teens (12-17) and seniors (62+), and $2 for children; Visa and MasterCard are accepted.  Racing begins at the famous \u201c6:00-ish\u201d start time.<br \/>\nBear Ridge Speedway is located on Kidder Road in Bradford, VT, just off Exit 16 on Interstate 91.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMadness\u201d event draws huge purse, USAC Midgets back in town BRADFORD, VT \u2013 Bear Ridge Speedway \u2013 \u201cThe Home of the Coupes\u201d \u2013 has posted a mammoth prize purse for its iconic Wells River Chevrolet Sportsman Coupe division at the John Poor Memorial presented by Walker Motor Sales of Woodsville, NH on Saturday. Between the [&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":[4154,200],"tags":[15407],"class_list":["post-14058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bear-ridge","category-vermont","tag-john-poor-memorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14058","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=14058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}