{"id":14679,"date":"2013-09-26T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=14679"},"modified":"2013-09-27T09:26:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T13:26:32","slug":"racing-austin-theriault-seeks-second-straight-pass-north-series-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/racing-austin-theriault-seeks-second-straight-pass-north-series-win\/","title":{"rendered":"AT RACING: Austin Theriault Seeks Second Straight PASS North Series Win"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"austin<\/a>PASS North Series: Austin Theriault
\nOxford Plains Speedway Race Preview<\/strong><\/p>\n

THE STORY<\/strong>
\nAustin Theriault of Fort Kent, Maine, looks to make it two in a row in PASS North Series competition when he returns to Oxford Plains Speedway in Oxford, Maine, for the PASS Championship 150 on Saturday, September 28. Theriault won the most recent PASS North event, the Southern Maine Chrysler Dodge Jeep 300 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway two weeks ago, and he won the season finale at Oxford Plains in 2012 for his first Super Late Model win. He returns to the seat of his family-owned AT Racing No. 57 Pelletier Ford\/Daigle Oil Ford for the final PASS event of the 2013 season. Last weekend, Theriault was in his Brad Keselowski Racing No. 29 at Five Flags Speedway in Pensacola, Fla. \u2013 an effort cut short by a mechanical failure, and he’s hoping to bounce back from that in his home state at a track where he has three consecutive Top-5 finishes in the Oxford 250.<\/p>\n

THE FACTS<\/strong>
\nWHO<\/strong>: Austin Theriault, Fort Kent, Maine
\nTEAM<\/strong>: AT Racing No. 57 Pelletier Ford Ford Fusion
\nBEST CAREER OXFORD PLAINS SPEEDWAY FINISH<\/strong>: 1st (October 2012)
\nLAST RACE AT OXFORD PLAINS<\/strong>: 4th (July 2013)
\nWHAT<\/strong>: PASS North Series Championship 150
\nWHERE<\/strong>: Oxford Plains Speedway, Oxford, Maine (.375-mile oval)
\nWHEN<\/strong>: Friday, September 27 \u2013 12 noon, practice; Saturday, September 28 \u2013 9 a.m., practice; 1 p.m., qualifying; 4 p.m., race
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\nPASS North Series<\/strong>
\nLAST RACE<\/strong>: September 15, Southern Maine Chrysler Dodge Jeep 300, Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, Scarborough, Maine (1st)<\/p>\n

DID YOU KNOW?<\/strong>
\nAustin Theriault has PASS South Series wins this season at Dillon Motor Speedway in Dillon, S.C., and Southern National Motorsports Park in Kenly, N.C., while driving for Brad Keselowski Racing.<\/p>\n

Austin Theriault has four career PASS-sanctioned victories, including a win two weeks ago in the longest race on the schedule \u2013 the Southern Maine Chrysler Dodge Jeep 300 \u2013 and the PASS North Series season finale at Oxford Plains Speedway in October of 2012.<\/p>\n

Austin Theriault has never finished worse than ninth in a PASS North Series race in his career.
\nAustin Theriault finished fourth in this summer’s TD Bank Oxford 250, his third consecutive Top-5 finish in the event.<\/p>\n

WHAT THEY ARE SAYING<\/strong>
\nAUSTIN THERIAULT, Driver of the AT Racing No. 57 Pelletier Ford\/Daigle Oil Ford Fusion, On any ‘home track’ advantage he might have at Oxford Plains Speedway: \u201cI think we honestly do feel like we have a little bit of an advantage because we’ve had far more races at Oxford than a lot of the PASS guys have. They’ve only been running at Oxford a couple of years, where we’ve had a lot of ACT (Late Model Tour) races at the track. I feel like from a driver’s standpoint, I have more laps at Oxford. I can’t tell you how much or how little it helps, but the more seat time you have, the better things usually go.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us, it’s about having more seat time, more time on the track, knowing what to expect from the track as the day goes on. It’s a lot of basic stuff like that, but I think it helps us.\u201d<\/p>\n

On running select races in Maine this season: \u201cIt comes down to the fact that I think we can compete for wins up here. It’s also nice to not forget where you came from and support the people who supported you for a bunch of years. That’s why I’m racing up north \u2013 to support Crazy Horse Racing and all the people who have played a part in my career and made it possible for me to get where I am now.\u201d<\/p>\n

On racing at Oxford Plains Speedway: \u201cIt\u2019s very unique. You don\u2019t find tracks like these down South. Beech Ridge and Oxford are one of a kind, and I\u2019ve learned a lot racing those tracks. I give them a lot of credit for where I\u2019m at now and how I drive a race car.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why I enjoy coming to (Oxford), in particular. I don\u2019t find the pressure is on at all. Obviously, we want to perform, and we\u2019re plenty capable of doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

UP NEXT<\/strong>
\nAustin Theriault heads to one of the most historic races of the year, the Winchester 400 at Winchester Speedway in Winchester, Ind, on Oct. 13… Theriault made his first appearance on the lightning-fast half-mile last season, running with the leaders for most of the event before a mechanical failure took him out of contention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PASS North Series: Austin Theriault Oxford Plains Speedway Race Preview THE STORY Austin Theriault of Fort Kent, Maine, looks to make it two in a row in PASS North Series competition when he returns to Oxford Plains Speedway in Oxford, Maine, for the PASS Championship 150 on Saturday, September 28. Theriault won the most recent […]<\/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":[10,5,14972],"tags":[4671],"class_list":["post-14679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maine","category-pass","category-touring-series-news","tag-austin-theriault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14679","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=14679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}