{"id":170,"date":"2009-05-10T21:10:41","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T02:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2009-05-10T21:10:41","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T02:10:41","slug":"all-star-speedway-5-9-09-race-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/all-star-speedway-5-9-09-race-report\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Star Speedway 5-9-09 Race Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;font-family: Verdana\">Epping, NH \u2013 With severe weather in the forecast, All-Star Speedway ran an abbreviated program last Saturday night, with the Super Streets, Strictly Stocks, and Fast-4\u2019s all competing in feature events.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;font-family: Verdana\">Second-generation racer Nick Gravel put on a great show on his way to winning the Super Street main, battling side-by-side with Chris Lee for several laps before he eventually prevailed and took over the lead.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;font-family: Verdana\">Rookies Jason Ferreira and Sulo Burbank tangled while battling three-wide for the lead in the early laps, and it left opening night winner Gary Beauregard sliding in the marbles as Lee and Gravel slipped past the skirmish.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;font-family: Verdana\">After changing a clutch between qualifying and the feature, Lee hung on as long as he could, but Gravel was determined to take home the win.\u00a0 Gravel went to work on the outside, and once he got past Lee and moved out front, he was good to go.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;font-family: Verdana\">Gravel took down the checkers with a comfortable lead, with Chris Lee, Beauregard, Sandy Lee, Rick Gentes, Steve Wilmot, Ferreira, Burbank, Lee Weldy, and Shaun Waites next across the stripe.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;font-family: Verdana\">Bouncing back from mechanical problems that sidelined his opening night effort aboard the Mike white entry, Mike Williams put on an impressive drive to score the Strictly Stock win.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;font-family: Verdana\">Early leader Keith Walton and opening night winner Bill Beardwood were among the obstacles on Williams\u2019 way to victory lane, but nothing stopped him from rolling into the winner\u2019s circle.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;font-family: Verdana\">Walton and Beardwood filled out the post-race podium in the Strictly Stocks, while Tyler Mailhot outran Josh Kirk and Matt Magee for the Fast-4 win.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Epping, NH \u2013 With severe weather in the forecast, All-Star Speedway ran an abbreviated program last Saturday night, with the Super Streets, Strictly Stocks, and Fast-4\u2019s all competing in feature events.\u00a0 Second-generation racer Nick Gravel put on a great show on his way to winning the Super Street main, battling side-by-side with Chris Lee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","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=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}