{"id":6198,"date":"2011-07-13T06:58:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T10:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2011-07-13T06:58:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T10:58:08","slug":"mulkern-racing-lonnie-sommerville-finishes-fourth-lee-usa-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/mulkern-racing-lonnie-sommerville-finishes-fourth-lee-usa-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"MULKERN RACING: Lonnie Sommerville Finishes Fourth At Lee USA Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lonnie Sommerville: PASS North Series
\nLee USA Speedway Race Report<\/strong><\/p>\n

LEE, N.H. \u2013 Lonnie Sommerville of Saint John, New Brunswick, finished fourth in the PASS North Series Bastille 200 at Lee USA Speedway on Tuesday, July 12. Sommerville led the event with less than 60 laps remaining, but a flat right front tire over the closing stages kept him for contending for a second PASS victory in a span of four days. After a tough qualifying effort, Sommerville started 16th in the 20-car field and moved into the Top-5 by Lap 80. Despite the loss of air pressure in the right front tire, though, he was able to hold on for fourth and unofficially move to fourth in the overall PASS standings.
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\nWHO: 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

WHAT: PASS North Series Bastille 200
\nWHERE: Lee USA Speedway, Lee, N.H. (.333-mile oval)
\nSTARTED: 16th
\nFINISHED: 4th
\nLAPS LED: 2 times for 3 laps<\/p>\n

PASS North Series
\nLAST RACE: July 9, Southern Maine Motors.com 150, Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, Scarborough, Maine (1st)
\nNEXT RACE: July 21, PASS 100, Thompson International Speedway, Thompson, Conn. (.625-mile banked oval)<\/p>\n

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LONNIE, WHAT DID YOU IN AT THE END?<\/p>\n

\u201cFlat right front. It only had 18 or 19 pounds (of air pressure) in it at the end. I knew on the second to last restart, either the bleeder bled down or I had rubber on (the tire). I went down in the turn and just slid the nose and lost Johnny (Clark). I was going to turn underneath him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI probably picked something up on the track… and then it was a slow leak. It started going down. Those (late) cautions didn’t help us. It just didn’t allow the pressure to build up and stay there.\u201d<\/p>\n

IS IT FRUSTRATING?<\/p>\n

\u201cI had an awesome race car. Even the first half, until we pitted, we were just playing with driving underneath Ben (Rowe). I was doing what I was trying to do last week (in a win at Beech Ridge) \u2013 just not abuse my stuff.<\/p>\n

\u201cI ended up doing the same thing with Johnny after we pitted. I’m pretty sure we had a car that was capable of getting by Johnny and driving off. We were awesome on the bottom, but that’s part of it, I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n

ARE YOU AT LEAST HAPPY THAT YOU WERE ABLE TO SALVAGE A TOP-5?<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s frustrating. We won last week \u2013 finally \u2013 and thought we got the monkey off our back. It’s the if’s, and’s and but’s kind of thing in racing \u2013 we had a flat tire, but it could have happened on Lap 125, gone down on the rim and then we’d have had to come in and pit and go down a lap.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt least we were able to salvage a fourth out of it.\u201d<\/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 Lee USA Speedway Race Report LEE, N.H. \u2013 Lonnie Sommerville of Saint John, New Brunswick, finished fourth in the PASS North Series Bastille 200 at Lee USA Speedway on Tuesday, July 12. Sommerville led the event with less than 60 laps remaining, but a flat right front tire over the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[190,126,112,5],"tags":[77,15766],"class_list":["post-6198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lee-usa-new-hampshire","category-new-england","category-new-hampshire","category-pass","tag-lee-usa","tag-pass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198","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=6198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}