{"id":6399,"date":"2011-07-21T04:24:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T08:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2011-07-21T23:25:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T03:25:45","slug":"hoar-paya-hope-add-missing-piece-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/hoar-paya-hope-add-missing-piece-resume\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoar, Paya Hope To Add Missing Piece To Resume"},"content":{"rendered":"

TD Bank Oxford 250
\nHoar, Paya Hope To Add Missing Piece To Resume<\/strong><\/p>\n

GEORGIA, Vt. \u2013 Between them, they have 14 ACT Late Model Tour championships, more wins than anybody in the history of ACT, the former track record at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and wins from Florida to the Canadian provinces. Name a big race in the northeast, and chances are Brian Hoar or car owner Rick Paya have won it.<\/p>\n

There is one omission from that resume, however \u2013 one they aim to add this weekend in the 38th annual TD Bank Oxford 250 at historic Oxford Plains Speedway in Oxford, Maine.
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\n\u201cThis is the biggest short track race we run every year,\u201d said Hoar, of Williston, Vt., who for several years held the New Hampshire Motor Speedway qualifying record in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East. \u201cThere are some other big ones \u2013 everyone talks about Loudon, and that’s going to be big, but it doesn’t have the prestige. It doesn’t have all the years behind it. The Milk Bowl \u2013 that’s big, but it’s Barre big, Vermont big.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as I’m concerned, all the ACT points races are big \u2013 but prestige-wise, this is what it’s all about. We want to get our names in the record books. That would really mean something.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hoar finished second a year ago in the Oxford 250 in the RPM Motorsports No. 37 GossCars.com Dodge. He’s one of the consensus picks to break through and win the marquee summer event which guarantees a winner’s share of at least $25,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we’re definitely in the best position we’ve ever been in in going to Oxford for the 250,\u201d said Hoar, who has won four of eight ACT starts this season and leads the series standings. \u201cWe’re very, very convinced that we have a very good setup. That being said, it’s the Oxford 250. Anything can happen. There’s so many cars, the luck of the draw, all of those things come into play.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re prepped and prepared, and we’re going to go over and give it our best and try to win it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paya believes that the team is ready for that winning performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to win it, no kidding around,\u201d Paya said. \u201cI want the paycheck at the end, of course, but winning the ‘250’ would mean a lot more than that to both myself and Brian.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s the one race that’s always eluded me. I’ve won a few others, but I’ve never won the ‘250.’ We’re going to do everything in our power to try and make that happen this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

RPM Motorsports will also branch out a bit this weekend. The team has entered a No. 37 Super Late Model in the PASS North Series event at Oxford Plains on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

The race will mark the PASS debut of both Paya and Hoar.<\/p>\n

\u201cI first thought about doing it a few months ago,\u201d Paya said. \u201cI took one of our ACT cars and converted it over. It’s still all ACT-legal, and the setup is my ACT setup for Oxford.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be interesting to see how we go. I think we might surprise some people. I’m excited to see how we stack up. I know how Brian stacks up as a driver, but I want to see how our team stacks up with their teams.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hoar said that pulling double-duty at Oxford will make for a nice change of pace during the race weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m really excited about it. As much as respect as I have for those guys, it will be fun to race with them,\u201d Hoar said. \u201cACT has come a long way since we started running the Oxford 250 (in 2007), and the race has given credibility to our series and the level of talent we have.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be nice to go over with our team and run the PASS race, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

And while the team expects to have some fun with the Super Late Model race on Saturday evening, the goal for the weekend is clear.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m stealing the trophy,\u201d Hoar said of the Oxford 250. \u201cWe’re not in this for the money \u2013 obviously, it’s the one race a year that could make a difference with that purse, but that’s not why we race. We wouldn’t be doing this if we were in it for the money.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to add this race to our list.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TD Bank Oxford 250 Hoar, Paya Hope To Add Missing Piece To Resume GEORGIA, Vt. \u2013 Between them, they have 14 ACT Late Model Tour championships, more wins than anybody in the history of ACT, the former track record at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and wins from Florida to the Canadian provinces. Name a big […]<\/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":[55,10,126,124],"tags":[4689,62,11,149],"class_list":["post-6399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-act","category-maine","category-new-england","category-oxford-plains-spedway","tag-hoar","tag-late-model","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-250"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399","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=6399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}