{"id":17448,"date":"2015-01-01T03:02:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T08:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=17448"},"modified":"2015-01-01T23:13:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T04:13:17","slug":"griffith-set-compete-2015-new-smyrna-speedway-red-eye-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/griffith-set-compete-2015-new-smyrna-speedway-red-eye-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffith set to compete in the 2015 New Smyrna Speedway Red Eye 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Derek-Griffith-Photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17449\" src=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Derek-Griffith-Photo-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Derek-Griffith-Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Derek-Griffith-Photo-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Derek-Griffith-Photo-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>New Smyrna Beach, FL \u2013 Derek Griffith, the standout driver from New Hampshire will travel to the Sunshine state to compete at the historic New Smyrna Speedway (NSS) in the 2015 Red Eye 100.<br \/>\nThe Red Eye, is the recongnized as the first Super Late Model race of the new year and has a rich history of very talented drivers winding up in victory lane. Griffith will pilot his No. 12 MOM\u2019s of Manchester\/LCM Racing Toyota Camry in what he hopes is a tune-up as the teenager will also compete in the NSS Speedweeks in mid-February as well.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really enjoy NSS, it\u2019s almost like Thompson, the first thing we need to do is make sure we get in to the show and we really have a hot set-up that Louie [Crew Chief Louie Mechalides] put\u2019s in the car. It\u2019s going to be awesome to get back behind the wheel after such a short off-season\u201d stated Griffith.<br \/>\nDerek is still a senior in High School and is looking forward to graduating; he hasn\u2019t yet decided on what his future holds, as far as furthering his education. Once thing is for certain, there will be more racing. Griffith added, \u201cGetting done with High School is my main priority right now. As far as what comes after High School, I have some opportunities to pursue diesel mechanics at a couple different schools in Ohio, I\u2019m not sure what I am going to be doing but I do know that I\u2019ll be racing as much as I possibly can\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Griffith recently finished 23rd in the 49th Annual Florida Governor\u2019s Cup held at NSS back on November 23, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Derek talked about that race, \u201cWe had a much better car than our 23rd place finish indicates. We didn\u2019t perform as well as we would have liked, so this time around I hope to really show everyone what our New Hampshire based race team is all about. Getting our Tyngsboro Motors Toyota on the podium would be sweet redemption.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Smyrna Beach, FL \u2013 Derek Griffith, the standout driver from New Hampshire will travel to the Sunshine state to compete at the historic New Smyrna Speedway (NSS) in the 2015 Red Eye 100. The Red Eye, is the recongnized as the first Super Late Model race of the new year and has a rich [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":[15663],"tags":[6186],"class_list":["post-17448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-smyrna-speedway","tag-new-smyrna-speedway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17448","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17450,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17448\/revisions\/17450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}