{"id":5919,"date":"2011-06-30T06:30:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T10:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2011-06-30T20:02:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T00:02:58","slug":"mulkern-racing-lonnie-sommerville-ready-trip-canaan-fair-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/mulkern-racing-lonnie-sommerville-ready-trip-canaan-fair-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"MULKERN RACING: Lonnie Sommerville Ready For First Trip To Canaan Fair Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lonnie Sommerville: PASS North Series
\nCanaan Fair Speedway Race Preview<\/strong><\/p>\n

THE STORY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lonnie Sommerville of Saint John, New Brunswick, looks to turn his bad luck around when the PASS North Series heads to the Firecracker 150 at Canaan Fair Speedway in Canaan, N.H., on Saturday, July 2. Sommerville, who is coming off back-to-back finishes outside of the Top-10 thanks to mechanical woes, has never competed at the facility \u2013 but his Mulkern Racing No. 48 A.E. McKay Builders\/Community Pharmacies Chevrolet team is the defending champion of this event. The event kicks off a busy stretch for the PASS North Series, with the race serving as the first of three events in an 11-day stretch.<\/p>\n

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THE FACTS<\/p>\n

WHO: Lonnie Sommerville, Saint John, New Brunswick
\nTEAM: Mulkern Racing No. 48 A.E. McKay Builders\/Community Pharmacies Chevrolet
\nCREW CHIEF: Seth Holbrook, Turner, Maine
\nTEAM MANAGER: Gary Crooks, Mooresville, N.C.<\/p>\n

BEST CAREER CANAAN FAIR SPEEDWAY FINISH: N\/A
\nLAST RACE AT CANAAN FAIR SPEEDWAY: N\/A<\/p>\n

WHAT: PASS North Series Firecracker 150
\nWHERE: Canaan Fair Speedway, Canaan, N.H. (.333-mile oval)
\nWHEN: 5 p.m., Saturday, July 2<\/p>\n

PASS North Series
\nLAST RACE: June 25, Habitations Dany Lagace 150, Autodrome Chaudiere, Vallee Jonction, Que. (19th)
\nNEXT RACE: July 9, Southern Maine Motors 150, Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, Scarborough, Maine (.333-mile oval)
\nCURRENT POINTS POSITION: 6th<\/p>\n

DID YOU KNOW?<\/p>\n

Lonnie Sommerville will race for the second straight week on a track he has never competed at. He has also never tested at Canaan Fair Speedway.
\nMulkern Racing won the Firecracker 150 last season with driver Ben Rowe.
\nLonnie Sommerville has set the fast practice time in two of the four PASS events this season.<\/p>\n

WHAT THEY’RE SAYING<\/p>\n

LONNIE SOMMERVILLE, Driver of the No. 48 A.E. McKay Builders\/Community Pharmacies Chevrolet, On what he knows about Canaan Fair Speedway: \u201cNothing. We’re going to run lots of horsepower \u2013 I know that \u2013 and the guys on the team said it might be kind of similar to the track in Quebec (Chaudiere). They said it was like that, as far as the setup they used last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be honest, I haven’t even looked at it. I usually go on YouTube or the internet and try and look at places before we go there, but I haven’t even done that yet. I’ll probably go on YouTube in the next couple of days just to get some idea of what to expect. I’m looking forward to it. They won there with Ben (Rowe), and I think our cars are better this year than they were last year.\u201d<\/p>\n

On whether or not there’s a silver lining in the team’s recent struggles: \u201cOh yeah. Right now, I think to be honest \u2013 even though I know it doesn’t mean anything \u2013 I think we’ve been better than Johnny (Clark) every week. Practice doesn’t mean anything or pay anything, but we’ve been better. I know it doesn’t mean anything if you can’t back it up \u2013 but I’m confident we have the best race team in the PASS series.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s just a little bit of a rough stretch.\u201d<\/p>\n

On how the team plans to approach the next several races: \u201cFrom here on out, we’re going to race for wins and if at the end of the year it works, it works. But we’re going to see how many wins we can get. Now, to win the championship, it’s a long shot.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere’s no lack of funding or effort on (team owners) Vickie and Scott (Mulkern’s) part. Our guys communicate well. Seth (Holbrook) and Gary (Crooks) are working great together. We’re having fun, and it’s a hard game to have fun at the race track and be fast \u2013 but we’ve got that right now. Every time we unload, I’m guessing we’re damn near the Top-5 in every practice this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a helluva race team Scott and Vickie have put together… Now it’s up to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

UP NEXT<\/p>\n

The PASS North Series races next weekend in the Southern Maine Motors 150 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway on Saturday, July 9… The track was where the 2011 season started, and where Lonnie Sommerville finished fourth back in April.<\/p>\n

Read more on the PASS forum<\/strong> – http:\/\/www.neracingforum.com\/forum\/viewforum.php?f=17<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lonnie Sommerville: PASS North Series Canaan Fair Speedway Race Preview THE STORY Lonnie Sommerville of Saint John, New Brunswick, looks to turn his bad luck around when the PASS North Series heads to the Firecracker 150 at Canaan Fair Speedway in Canaan, N.H., on Saturday, July 2. Sommerville, who is coming off back-to-back finishes outside […]<\/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":[4139,126,112,5],"tags":[15766],"class_list":["post-5919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canaan","category-new-england","category-new-hampshire","category-pass","tag-pass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919","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=5919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}