{"id":2880,"date":"2010-07-26T06:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2010-07-26T06:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T11:16:00","slug":"jimmie-d-beats-the-heat-and-the-competition-at-whip-city-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/jimmie-d-beats-the-heat-and-the-competition-at-whip-city-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmie D Beats the Heat, and the Competition, at Whip City Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jimmie D Beats the Heat,<br \/>\nand the Competition,<br \/>\nat Whip City Speedway<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BY MARK McKEON<\/p>\n<p>WESTFIELD, MA &#8211; On a sultry, steamy night with a triple digit heat index, 60 year old Jim DeCambra ended a two year drought with a wire-to-wire win in the 600cc Mini Sprints.<br \/>\n\u201cI guess I outlasted the kids,\u201d DeCambra said.  \u201cOur division is so fast and the cars are so nearly equal, that almost anybody could win on any given night.  This week, I was in the right spot at the right time and it makes up for a race I should have won a couple of weeks ago.\u201d<!--more--><br \/>\nAt the opposite end of the age spectrum, teenager Nikki Oullette picked up her first 750cc win.  The former 750 Sportsman champ was mistake free in a very fast paced event.<br \/>\nThe 750 Sportsman points battle continued to focus on Makayla Lucia and Kyle Smith, who finished first and second, respectively. Lucia also won her heat, placing her just a pair of points behind Smith.<br \/>\nJohn Virgilio, who has recently expanded his racing resume with some additional Sprint Car starts, won the 1200cc Mini Sprint feature.<br \/>\nScott Viets marked his return to Quad 4 Midget racing with another victory.<br \/>\nBob Poloski took the honors in the Modified Lite feature.<br \/>\nThe afternoon karting program was rained out.<br \/>\n270cc: 1. Kurt Conklin,  2.Wayne Ibitz Jr, 3. Seth Carlson, 4. Grant Sabo, 5. Tara Galko, 6. Matt Galko, 7. Bryan Russo, 8. Brian Hurd, 9. Kendall Segar, 10. Jake Sapowsky.<br \/>\n600cc: 1. Jim DeCambra, 2. Richard Crooker, 3. Ricci Hirth, 4. Greg Smith, 5. Dylan Campbell, 6. Brandon Igo, 7.             Luke Greenwood, 8. Kevin Stolte, 9.    Chris Lennox.<br \/>\n750cc: 1. Nikki Ouellette, 2. John Casazza, 3. Tyler Jackson, 4. Phil Bessette, 5. Mark Taylor, 6. Rick Stone, 7. Mike King, 8. David Williamson.<br \/>\n750 Sportsman: 1. Makayla Lucia, 2. Kyle Smith, 3. Timothy Stick, 4. Shelby Klekotka, 5. Ron Hunt.<br \/>\n1200cc: 1. John Virgilio, 2. Jon Moore, 3. Peter Dance, 4. Joseph Szczapa, 5. Justin Phillips, 6. Jerry Sehn, 7. Kristen Phillips, 8. Jamie Beaudry, 9. Mark Taylor.<br \/>\nQuad 4 Midget: 1. Scott Viets, 2. Joe Krawiec, 3. Vince Jacobs, 4.      Tim Gallant, 5. Jamie Spalding.<br \/>\nModified Lite:  1. Robert Poloski, 2. Ryan Nicewicz, 3. Roger Angers Jr., 4. Brett Crowther, 5. John Durst, 6. Dale Shallow, 7. Casey Ouellette.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmie D Beats the Heat, and the Competition, at Whip City Speedway BY MARK McKEON WESTFIELD, MA &#8211; On a sultry, steamy night with a triple digit heat index, 60 year old Jim DeCambra ended a two year drought with a wire-to-wire win in the 600cc Mini Sprints. \u201cI guess I outlasted the kids,\u201d DeCambra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whip-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880","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=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}