{"id":4884,"date":"2011-04-19T05:39:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T10:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2011-04-19T05:55:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T10:55:01","slug":"brent-dragon-finishes-11th-act-opener-lee-usa-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/brent-dragon-finishes-11th-act-opener-lee-usa-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent Dragon Finishes 11th In ACT Opener At Lee USA Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Brent Dragon: ACT Late Model Tour<br \/>\nLee USA Speedway Race Report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LEE, N.H. \u2013 Brent Dragon opened the season with an 11th-place finish in the ACT Late Model Tour NH Governor&#8217;s Cup 150 at Lee USA Speedway on Sunday, April 17. After being caught up in a Lap 46 accident, Dragon&#8217;s Avery Motorsports crew made extensive repairs to the No. 55 Beverage Mart\/Furniture World of VT Chevrolet and rallied to salvage a long afternoon. The start was the 187th ACT Late Model Tour start of Dragon&#8217;s career, tops among all drivers in series history.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OOdqoVVam-8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nWHO: Brent Dragon, Milton, Vt.<br \/>\nTEAM: Avery Motorsports No. 55 Beverage Mart\/Furniture World of VT\/Charlesbois Freightliner Chevrolet<\/p>\n<p>WHAT: ACT Late Model Tour NH Governor&#8217;s Cup 150<br \/>\nWHERE: Lee USA Speedway, Lee, N.H. (.333-mile oval)<\/p>\n<p>STARTED: 4th<br \/>\nFINISHED: 11th<\/p>\n<p>ACT Late Model Tour<br \/>\nNEXT RACE: May 1, Merchants Bank 150, Thunder Road International Speedbowl, Barre, Vt. (.25-mile oval)<\/p>\n<p>********************<\/p>\n<p>BRENT, WHAT HAPPENED ON LAP 46?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really know what happened. We got turned around, and then we tore the nose off the car. It still drove good. We drove back up to, I think, a Top-10 finish or close to it.<\/p>\n<p>It tore the front nose cone off of it. It didn&#8217;t really hurt anything other than that.<\/p>\n<p>IT SEEMED LIKE A FRUSTRATING DAY ALL THE WAY AROUND.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, a little bit. We had a really good car. I think we could have finished in the Top-5 easy enough.<\/p>\n<p>It started off pretty good. We had a really good car in the race. I was just sort of riding, trying to save some tires for the end of the race, and then we ended up getting turned around. We definitely had a Top-5 car easily, so we&#8217;ll just have to go get them next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brent Dragon: ACT Late Model Tour Lee USA Speedway Race Report LEE, N.H. \u2013 Brent Dragon opened the season with an 11th-place finish in the ACT Late Model Tour NH Governor&#8217;s Cup 150 at Lee USA Speedway on Sunday, April 17. After being caught up in a Lap 46 accident, Dragon&#8217;s Avery Motorsports crew made [&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":[55,190,126,112],"tags":[15778,77],"class_list":["post-4884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-act","category-lee-usa-new-hampshire","category-new-england","category-new-hampshire","tag-act","tag-lee-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884","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=4884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}