{"id":261,"date":"2009-05-31T20:37:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T01:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2009-05-31T20:37:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T01:37:53","slug":"harris-on-a-roll-to-start-2009-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/harris-on-a-roll-to-start-2009-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris on a Roll to Start 2009 Season!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harris on a Roll to Start 2009 Season!!!<\/span><\/h1>\n

Fredericton, NB, May 31, 2009 \u2013 After an impressive start to the 2009 season last week everyone was geared and ready for the Max 1 Advanced Synthetic Best of the Best Pro Stock 100 under the lights at Speedway 660.\u00a0 Unfortunately Mother Nature had other plans that forced the rescheduling of Saturdays events to Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0 The good news is, it was a gorgeous day for racing.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s event featured regular points racing the in the Coast Tire Street Stock and the Martin\u2019s Home Heating division as well as the Max 1 Advanced Synthetic Best of the Best Pro Stock 100 presented by COASTAL Blending & Packaging.<\/p>\n

In the Coast Tire Street Stock division Roger Slocum was the big winner of the afternoon picking up a win in his heat, dash and feature for the Robin\u2019s Inn Hat Trick Award.\u00a0 Slocum started the 20 lap feature on the pole and dominated the race. Also ending up with a podium finish were Mike Francis and Robert Raynes. The feature went very smoothly only having one caution for a car leaking fluid on the track.<\/p>\n

In the Martins Home Heating Sportsman Division Glynn Nott of Burton claimed his first victory of the year in a rough and tumble 30 lap feature.\u00a0 Competition was fierce as the teams are already focusing on trying to gain every position possible in search of the 2009 Championship.\u00a0\u00a0 Richard Atkinson finished 2nd<\/sup> and Dan McNeil finished third with one of his best career finishes.<\/p>\n

There were 20 cars in the field for the Max 1 Advanced Synthetic Best of the Best Pro Stock 100. Also in attendance at the speedway nine months after his accident in a qualifying heat for the Peterbilt 250, was Hal O\u2019Neal.\u00a0 Hal dropped the green flag for the Max 1 Advanced Synthetic Best of the Best Pro Stock 100.\u00a0 Starting on the pole was New Denmark\u2019s Glenn Rasmussen in the # 81 big black dodge. Rasmussen led the first part of the race until he was challenged for the lead by Travis Benjamin. Benjamin led for many laps until he was overtaken by Fredericton Junction\u2019s Matt Harris with an outside pass for the lead.\u00a0 Kevin Moore charged up to challenge Harris for the lead.\u00a0 Moore would get a great run on the outside and briefly took over the lead but a caution reverted the field to the last completed lap.\u00a0 Harris would lead the remainder of the race to make it 2 for 2 to open the 2009 season.\u00a0 With his win in the Max 1 Advanced Synthetic Best of the Best Pro Stock 100 Harris has also secured a provisional spot in the Peterbilt 250 Labour Day weekend event. Rounding out the Pro Stock podium were Greg Fahey in 2nd<\/sup> and Kevin Moore finishing 3rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Tune into Speedway 660 next weekend for the DQ Kids day, plus District School Challenge.\u00a0 There will be regular racing in the Coast Tire Street Stock, Martin\u2019s Home Heating and Irving Lubricants Pro Stock divisions, as well as the AOW. For DQ Kids Day young race fans under the age of 15 will be admitted to the speedway for free. Also any parent with a child that has a voucher given out at school will get in for five dollars. DQ will be on hand to give out some yummy treats. There will be face painting and bouncy castles from GoGo Gymnastics there for the young fans. Also fans will see the traditional candy scramble on the track at intermission.<\/p>\n

Make sure you don\u2019t miss another action packed weekend of racing at Speedway 660, it is sure to be WicKID!\u00a0 Racing starts at 7 p.m. on June 6, 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harris on a Roll to Start 2009 Season!!! Fredericton, NB, May 31, 2009 \u2013 After an impressive start to the 2009 season last week everyone was geared and ready for the Max 1 Advanced Synthetic Best of the Best Pro Stock 100 under the lights at Speedway 660.\u00a0 Unfortunately Mother Nature had other plans that […]<\/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-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","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=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}