{"id":18409,"date":"2015-03-31T11:07:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T15:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=18409"},"modified":"2015-03-31T07:21:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T11:21:09","slug":"gelinas-ready-for-2015-title-run-sets-sights-on-season-opening-icebreaker-at-thompson-speedway-motorsports-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/gelinas-ready-for-2015-title-run-sets-sights-on-season-opening-icebreaker-at-thompson-speedway-motorsports-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Gelinas Ready for 2015 Title Run Sets Sights on Season-Opening IceBreaker at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/eeeeeee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18410\" src=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/eeeeeee-300x149.jpg\" alt=\"eeeeeee\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/eeeeeee-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/eeeeeee.jpg 882w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Walpole, NH- For \u201cLightning\u201d Larry Gelinas, racing is almost as important as breathing.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-plus-year veteran gets behind the wheel any chance he can. This year, he\u2019ll be chasing the 2015 crown in the Granite State Pro Stock Series (GSPSS), as well as throwing his name in the hat in the Late Model division at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park. Gelinas will also run select ACT events, and attempt to qualify for the Oxford 250.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love to race, that\u2019s really all I\u2019ve ever done,\u201d comments Gelinas.<\/p>\n<p>Gelinas started the year with his seasoned race car, after replacing the snout of his Cadillac following a bone-crushing hit at Lee USA Speedway\u2019s Oktoberfest. The team packed up, headed south, and competed at New Smyrna (FL), only to suffer mechanical issues all week.<\/p>\n<p>The 2015 GSPSS schedule has a different look, and Gelinas is anxious to get the season started. The schedule starts off in familiar territory, with the IceBreaker, April 10-12, at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park (TSMP). The IceBreaker will pay a cool $2000 to capture the victory, with $250 to take the green. Then, Claremont Speedway, the track where it all began, will host the GSPSS April 24. Add a return to Speedway 51 (NH), formerly Riverside Speedway, and New London-Waterford Speedbowl (CT) to close out the season, and the \u201cnew\u201d tracks act as equalizers on the schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Gelinas adds \u201cI\u2019ve never even seen New London-Waterford (Speedbowl). The different tracks makes more of a challenge for everyone. That\u2019s why we race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Larry Gelinas began the 2014 season on a tear. In the first five races, Gelinas never finished any worse than fourth, including a win at Hudson International Speedway. Then, bad luck struck the Buxton, Maine native, as mechanical issues took him out of the JBH 100 at Monadnock Speedway. In the very next race, the 1996 winner of the Oxford 250 battled two-time ACT Champion Wayne Helliwell, Jr., in a green-white-checkered finish, only to spin after contact, for his second consecutive finish outside the top-10. Gelinas would buckle down, and rack up four top-7 finishes, to round out the season, and finish third in the championship standings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walpole, NH- For \u201cLightning\u201d Larry Gelinas, racing is almost as important as breathing. The 30-plus-year veteran gets behind the wheel any chance he can. This year, he\u2019ll be chasing the 2015 crown in the Granite State Pro Stock Series (GSPSS), as well as throwing his name in the hat in the Late Model division at [&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":[4721,14972],"tags":[15509],"class_list":["post-18409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-granite-state-pro-stock","category-touring-series-news","tag-thompson-speedway-motorsports-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18409","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=18409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18411,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18409\/revisions\/18411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}