{"id":6440,"date":"2011-07-24T11:19:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T15:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2011-07-24T08:20:55","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T12:20:55","slug":"scott-mulkern-returns-action-finish-11th-oxford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/scott-mulkern-returns-action-finish-11th-oxford\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Mulkern Returns To Action To Finish 11th At Oxford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scott Mulkern: PASS North Series<br \/>\nOxford Plains Speedway Race Report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OXFORD, Maine \u2013 Scott Mulkern of Falmouth, Maine, finished 11th in the PASS North Series&#8217; return to Oxford Plains Speedway, the Brackett Mechanical 150 on Saturday, July 23. After needing to qualify through the consi to start 27th in the main event, Mulkern moved up a full 16 spots without the aid of a caution flag over the first half of the race. But Mulkern, making just his third start of the season, fought a tight-handling race car over the final 50 laps and settled for the solid 11th-place finish.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWHO: Scott Mulkern, Falmouth, Maine<br \/>\nTEAM: Mulkern Racing No. 84 Southern Maine Motors\/Community Pharmacies Chevrolet<br \/>\nCREW CHIEF: Seth Holbrook, Turner, Maine<br \/>\nTEAM MANAGER: Gary Crooks, Mooresville, N.C.<\/p>\n<p>WHAT: PASS North Series Brackett Mechanical 150<br \/>\nWHERE: Oxford Plains Speedway, Oxford, Maine (.375-mile oval)<br \/>\nSTARTED: 27th<br \/>\nFINISHED: 11th<br \/>\nLAPS LED: 0 times for 0 laps<\/p>\n<p>PASS North Series<br \/>\nLAST RACE: July 21, PASS 100, Thompson International Speedway, Thompson, Conn. (&#8212;)<br \/>\nNEXT RACE: August 6, PASS 150, Seekonk Speedway, Seekonk, Mass. (.333-mile banked oval)<\/p>\n<p>**************<\/p>\n<p>SCOTT, WERE YOU SURPRISED HOW FAR YOU WERE ABLE TO MOVE TO THE FRONT EARLY?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was good right up until the first caution. But right from the get-go, I got a little tight. I just wore it out, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just had a little too much steering wheel in it. I didn&#8217;t think with Kyle (Busch) on the pole, I&#8217;d have a chance to ride too much. I didn&#8217;t feel like I was killing the car. I didn&#8217;t think I killed it \u2013 just right from the get-go, it needed a little adjustment, that&#8217;s all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CONSIDERING YOU&#8217;RE RUNNING A PART-TIME SCHEDULE, WAS THIS A GOOD NIGHT FOR YOU?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I had fun. Any time you pass cars, it&#8217;s fun. I was pretty happy. I wished I&#8217;d finished in the Top-5, but I had fun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m still smiling, so that&#8217;s a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more on the PASS forum<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neracingforum.com\/forum\/viewforum.php?f=17\">http:\/\/www.neracingforum.com\/forum\/viewforum.php?f=17<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Mulkern: PASS North Series Oxford Plains Speedway Race Report OXFORD, Maine \u2013 Scott Mulkern of Falmouth, Maine, finished 11th in the PASS North Series&#8217; return to Oxford Plains Speedway, the Brackett Mechanical 150 on Saturday, July 23. After needing to qualify through the consi to start 27th in the main event, Mulkern moved up [&hellip;]<\/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":[10,126,124,5],"tags":[193,11,15766,4694],"class_list":["post-6440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maine","category-new-england","category-oxford-plains-spedway","category-pass","tag-ops","tag-oxford","tag-pass","tag-scott-mulkern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440","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=6440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}