{"id":19728,"date":"2015-08-21T12:03:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T16:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=19728"},"modified":"2015-08-21T12:03:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T16:03:15","slug":"laquerre-elected-to-new-england-auto-racing-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/laquerre-elected-to-new-england-auto-racing-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Laquerre Elected to New England Auto Racing Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><del><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15370\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15370\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_9262-e1440120780411.jpg\" alt=\"Alan Ward photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Ward photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/del><em>Barre, VT<\/em> \u2013 Thunder Road racing legend and family patriarch Joey Laquerre of East Montpelier has been elected to the New England Auto Racing (NEAR) Hall of Fame\u2019s Class of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 71-year-old Laquerre is the all-time winningest driver at Barre\u2019s Thunder Road with 45 wins, including a record 17 in the Tiger Sportsmen and 14 in the Late Models. His most recent Thunder Road victory came in a Late Model feature on June 5, 2014. Laquerre was the 1982 \u201cKing of the Road\u201d and also won five championships in the Mini Stock division between 1973 and 1980.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In addition, Laquerre was the winningest driver at the former Catamount Stadium in Milton. He currently owns and operates Speedway 51 in Groveton, NH.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Laquerre joins former NASCAR Sprint Cup winner Greg Sacks, former road racer and commentator Sam Posey, Lee USA Speedway promoter Red MacDonald, late multi-time Super Modified champion Paul Dunigan, Coastal 181 publisher Lew Boyd, and late many-track champion Jim McCallum in the Hall of Fame Class of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The NEAR Hall of Fame was established in 1997 by the New England Antique Racers. An induction banquet will be held <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_633076370\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Sunday, November 8<\/span><\/span> at Meneeley\u2019s in South Windsor, CT.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information contact the Thunder Road offices at <a href=\"tel:802.244.6963\" target=\"_blank\">802.244.6963<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:media@acttour.com\" target=\"_blank\">media@acttour.com<\/a>, or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thunderroadspeedbowl.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.thunderroadspeedbowl.com<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.near1.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.near1.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barre, VT \u2013 Thunder Road racing legend and family patriarch Joey Laquerre of East Montpelier has been elected to the New England Auto Racing (NEAR) Hall of Fame\u2019s Class of 2015. &nbsp; The 71-year-old Laquerre is the all-time winningest driver at Barre\u2019s Thunder Road with 45 wins, including a record 17 in the Tiger Sportsmen [&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":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-england"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19728","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=19728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19729,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19728\/revisions\/19729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}