{"id":5548,"date":"2011-06-05T08:36:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T12:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2011-06-05T08:36:16","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T12:36:16","slug":"dibenedetto-conquers-stadium-dominates-kn-pro-series-east-race-bowman-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/dibenedetto-conquers-stadium-dominates-kn-pro-series-east-race-bowman-gray\/","title":{"rendered":"DiBenedetto Conquers The Stadium &#8211; Dominates K&#038;N Pro Series East race at Bowman Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DiBenedetto Conquers The Stadium<br \/>\nDominates K&#038;N Pro Series East race at Bowman Gray<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. &#8212; Matt DiBenedetto made getting around the tight oval at historic Bowman Gray Stadium look easy.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old from Grass Valley, Calif., led every lap of the Army Strong 150 Saturday night en route to his first win of 2011 and third career NASCAR K&#038;N Pro Series East career. Saturday&#8217;s race was the first for the series at the venerable quarter-mile track that is steeped in NASCAR history.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nCorey LaJoie, who briefly moved in front DiBenedetto in the closing stages of the race but was never able to officially take the lead, settled for second on the green-white-checkered finish. Rookie Ben Kennedy, the grandson of Bill France Jr., earned his career-best finish in third.<\/p>\n<p>Max Gresham and DJ Shaw were fourth and fifth, respectively. Darrell Wallace Jr., Chad Finchum, Cody Hodgson, Chad Boat and Ryan Gifford rounded out the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace took over the points lead from Brett Moffitt, who finished 16th and dropped to fourth. Wallace leads DiBenedetto by 27, Gresham by 30, and Moffitt by 34.<\/p>\n<p>The Army Strong 150 will air on SPEED on Thursday, June 9 at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The NASCAR K&#038;N Pro Series East returns to the track Saturday, June 11 for the Slack Auto Parts 150 at Gresham Motorsports Park in Jefferson, Ga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DiBenedetto Conquers The Stadium Dominates K&#038;N Pro Series East race at Bowman Gray WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. &#8212; Matt DiBenedetto made getting around the tight oval at historic Bowman Gray Stadium look easy. The 19-year-old from Grass Valley, Calif., led every lap of the Army Strong 150 Saturday night en route to his first win of 2011 [&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":[45,4456],"tags":[15775],"class_list":["post-5548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","category-nascar-kn-pro-series","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548","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=5548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}