{"id":18607,"date":"2015-04-21T22:21:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T02:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=18607"},"modified":"2015-04-21T22:21:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T02:21:36","slug":"derek-griffith-is-ready-for-the-challenge-this-friday-at-claremont-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/derek-griffith-is-ready-for-the-challenge-this-friday-at-claremont-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Griffith Is Ready For The Challenge This Friday At Claremont Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14632\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14632\" class=\"wp-image-14632 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/vlf_5554-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Photos- Eric LaFleche \" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos- Eric LaFleche<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Claremont, NH \u2013 Derek Griffith, the young, talented Pro-Stock driver from New Hampshire will be making his Claremont Speedway debut this Friday, April 24<sup>th<\/sup> as the Granite State Pro Stock Series (GSPSS) makes its return to the 1\/3 mile facility for 125 green flag laps.<\/p>\n<p>Formally known as Twin State Speedway, Claremont is under new ownership for 2015 and is ready to set the stage for what should be an exciting event.<\/p>\n<p>Griffith will be entering Claremont not knowing anything about the race track, \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever been there, maybe when I was a little kid but I can\u2019t remember\u201d remarked Derek.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be exciting for our MOM\u2019s of Manchester\/LCM Racing crew as Louie [Crew Chief Louie Mechalides] doesn\u2019t even have any set-up sheets for Claremont. I think it\u2019ll be a learning experience, that\u2019s for sure. \u201c<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Griffith finished in second place for the opening GSPSS race from Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park on April 12<sup>th<\/sup>, still looking for his first win, Derek thinks he\u2019s on the cusp of bringing the No. 12 Toyota Camry to victory lane. \u201cI really think our time is coming. All the pieces are finally coming together and our crew is starting to get some real time together and I think, in order to win on almost any level you need a consistent team effort, we\u2019ll get there.\u201d said Derek.<\/p>\n<p>To follow Derek and his quest for the 2015 Granite State Pro Stock Series Championship, please find him on Facebook at <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/derekgriffith18\">facebook.com\/derekgriffith18<\/a> or Twitter at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/derekgriffith12\">twitter.com\/derekgriffith12<\/a> and always check out Derek\u2019s website at <a href=\"http:\/\/derekgriffith.com\">derekgriffith.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The GSPSS 125-Lap event is scheduled for Friday, April 24<sup>th<\/sup> with a post time of <span data-term=\"goog_1793740697\">7:30pm<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claremont, NH \u2013 Derek Griffith, the young, talented Pro-Stock driver from New Hampshire will be making his Claremont Speedway debut this Friday, April 24th as the Granite State Pro Stock Series (GSPSS) makes its return to the 1\/3 mile facility for 125 green flag laps. Formally known as Twin State Speedway, Claremont is under new [&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":[4721,112,14972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-granite-state-pro-stock","category-new-hampshire","category-touring-series-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18607","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=18607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18608,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18607\/revisions\/18608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}