{"id":16812,"date":"2014-09-05T21:27:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T01:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=16812"},"modified":"2014-09-06T21:28:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T01:28:29","slug":"mueller-tops-northern-modified-challenge-battle-entering-rescheduled-airborne-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/mueller-tops-northern-modified-challenge-battle-entering-rescheduled-airborne-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Mueller Tops Northern Modified Challenge Battle Entering Rescheduled Airborne Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mueller Tops Northern Modified Challenge Battle Entering Rescheduled Airborne Race<br \/>\nQuenneville, Gonyo tied in second only four points back; race postponed to Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For Immediate Release                                                                                                                                                                     NMCS-090514-1<\/p>\n<p>SOUTH PLATTSBUGH, NY \u2013 Jessey Mueller is the leader of the Northern Modified Challenge Series championship chase, but not by much.  The 19 year-old from Olmstedville, NY holds a slim four-point lead entering Sunday\u2019s 50-lap contest at Airborne Park Speedway; veteran drivers Vince Quenneville, Jr. and Leon Gonyo sit tied in second place right behind the youngster.<\/p>\n<p>The event, which includes a 100-lap race for the Valenti Modified Racing Series, has been postponed by one day to Sunday, September 7 at 1:00 p.m., due to unfavorable forecasts on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>With half of the eight-race Northern Modified Challenge Series schedule complete, Mueller owns victories at Thunder Road Int\u2019l Speedbowl in May and Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway in August.  It\u2019s his closest challengers, though, who can lay claim to wins at Airborne, as Gonyo and Quenneville split twin 30-lap features at the track in July.<\/p>\n<p>Plattsburgh-area drivers Jason Durgan, Jamie LaFountain, and Airborne point leader Nick Heywood remain in the mix, sitting in positions 4-6 overall.  That trio has seen a busy \u2013 and successful \u2013 summer of weekly competition at both Devil\u2019s Bowl and Airborne, combining for 10 victories and 47 top-five finishes across 89 total feature starts.  Durgan scored a runner-up effort in the NMCS event at Thunder Road, while LaFountain and Heywood also have top-five finishes with the series this year.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s 50-lap Northern Modified Challenge Series race at Airborne Park Speedway is part of a blockbuster open-wheel showdown that features the Valenti Modified Racing Series, and championship finales for the weekly NASCAR Whelen All-American Series-sanctioned J&#038;S Steel Sportsman Modified, Ground Round Late Model, Key-RD Trailer Sales Renegade, and Busch Beer Mini-Modified divisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mueller Tops Northern Modified Challenge Battle Entering Rescheduled Airborne Race Quenneville, Gonyo tied in second only four points back; race postponed to Sunday For Immediate Release NMCS-090514-1 SOUTH PLATTSBUGH, NY \u2013 Jessey Mueller is the leader of the Northern Modified Challenge Series championship chase, but not by much. The 19 year-old from Olmstedville, NY holds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[4157,4156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airborne","category-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16812","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16813,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16812\/revisions\/16813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}