{"id":15902,"date":"2014-05-16T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=15902"},"modified":"2014-05-16T09:30:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T13:30:10","slug":"northern-modified-challenge-series-returns-second-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/northern-modified-challenge-series-returns-second-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Modified Challenge Series Returns for Second Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>NMCS schedule opens at Thunder Road\u2019s Memorial Day Classic on May 25<\/em><\/p>\n

BARRE, VT \u2013 The ground-pounding Modifieds are headed back to the road \u2013 Thunder Road. The Northern Modified Challenge Series opens its second year of open-wheel stock car racing at the Mekkelsen RV Memorial Day Classic at Thunder Road International Speedbowl in Barre, VT on Sunday, May 25. The race will be run in conjunction with the Vermont State Late Model Championship Series.<\/p>\n

Jessey Mueller made history last year at the track, winning the first-ever event for the Northern Modified Challenge Series. The Olmstedville, NY racer, just 18 years old at the time, led the way ahead of veterans Leon Gonyo and Kenny Tremont, Jr. for the 50-lap victory. The race featured side-by-side action in the high-banked corners and a spectacular opening-lap crash on the \u201cWidowmaker\u201d frontstretch wall.
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\"The<\/a>Eight feature races on six total race dates form the 2014 NMCS schedule. From Thunder Road, the series moves across Lake Champlain to its first-ever event at Airborne Park Speedway in Plattsburgh, NY on Saturday, July 26. The event is expected to draw a large field for twin 25-lap races.<\/p>\n

Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway, the home track for the NMCS, hosts the Carrara Masonry & Concrete C.J. Richards Memorial 67 on Friday, August 1, then heads back to Airborne Park for a 50-lap event on Saturday, September 6. The final asphalt event will be a twin-50 run at Devil\u2019s Bowl on September 13-14, at the Mekkelsen RV Vermont 200 Weekend.<\/p>\n

The season finale will be a brand new event, run on a temporary dirt surface on the Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway half-mile on Saturday, October 18. The finale will bring NMCS teams from the Champlain Valley together with the GRIT Sportsman Series teams of New York\u2019s Capital District for a 100-lap slugfest.<\/p>\n

The Northern Modified Challenge Series, sanctioned by Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway, opens at Thunder Road in Barre, VT on Sunday, May 25 at 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

Northern Modified Challenge Series 2014 Schedule of Events:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7 Sunday, May 25 \u2013 Thunder Road Int\u2019l Speedbowl, Barre, VT \u2013 50 laps<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Saturday, July 26 \u2013 Airborne Park Speedway, Plattsburgh, NY \u2013 25 laps x 2<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Friday, August 1 \u2013 Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway, West Haven, VT \u2013 67 laps<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Saturday, September 6 \u2013 Airborne Park Speedway, Plattsburgh, NY \u2013 50 laps<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Sat.-Sun., September 13-14 \u2013 Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway, West Haven, VT \u2013 50 laps x 2<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Saturday, October 18 \u2013 Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway (dirt), West Haven, VT \u2013 100 laps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NMCS schedule opens at Thunder Road\u2019s Memorial Day Classic on May 25 BARRE, VT \u2013 The ground-pounding Modifieds are headed back to the road \u2013 Thunder Road. The Northern Modified Challenge Series opens its second year of open-wheel stock car racing at the Mekkelsen RV Memorial Day Classic at Thunder Road International Speedbowl in Barre, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15903,"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":[15275],"class_list":["post-15902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devils-bowl","category-vermont","tag-northern-modified-challenge-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15902","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=15902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}