{"id":794,"date":"2009-07-09T21:10:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T02:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2009-07-09T21:10:37","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T02:10:37","slug":"new-names-stepping-up-to-challenge-the-pass-regulars-at-lee-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/new-names-stepping-up-to-challenge-the-pass-regulars-at-lee-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"New names stepping up to challenge the PASS regulars at LEE USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-419\" src=\"http:\/\/neracer.com\/blog\/files\/2009\/06\/pass1.gif\" alt=\"pass1\" width=\"144\" height=\"60\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Naples  ME (July 6) The fastest full fendered race cars in the east are back! Lee USA  Speedway will host the Pro All Stars<span> <\/span>Series (PASS) North<span> <\/span>super  late models for a special Tuesday night July 14 appearance at the Route 125  oval, and the series competitor\u2019s couldn\u2019t be more pleased with their return to  the immaculate speedway<span> <\/span>that hosted  <span> <\/span>the first ever PASS race nine  seasons ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Dale  Shaw was the victor that time around, and DJ Shaw will look to follow in his  father\u2019s footsteps He\u2019s already visited Lee USA victory lane in a late model and  has to be considered one of the favorites on Tuesday night. His dad will be  behind the wheel of a second Dennis Ciotti super late model for the Bastille  PASS 200 in a rare on track appearance for the veteran racer and car builder.  Steve Knowlton will be behind the wheel of Ciotti\u2019s primary car, and he\u2019s well  capable of putting it up front at Lee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The  Bastille PASS 200 will have a little southern flavor added. Michael Pope will  attempt his first PASS North race behind the wheel of SPEED TV personality Bob  Dillner\u2019s potent machine, and Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing Sprint Cup Series driver  Aric Almirola will travel to New Hampshire to pilot his friend D.J. Howards\u2019  car. The Howards are well known to Lee USA fans and D.J.\u2019s home track experience  makes this pairing an immediate threat. Wayne Helliwell Jr. will be taking his  family super late model out of mothballs for his first PASS start in several  seasons, and if anyone has the home track advantage it\u2019s  Helliwell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">In  addition to Shaw\u2019s 2001 PASS win, the travelling pros visited Lee USA on two  occasions in 2004. Richie Dearborn and Tracy Gordon each went home with a  victory and Dearborn will be back to try and get his first\u00a0 win of 2009. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Two  names noticeably absent from the victory column at LEE USA are Johnny Clark and  Ben Rowe. The pair has seven PASS titles between them and they both have to be  hungry for a Lee win. It\u2019s one of only a handful of tracks that neither has  conquered, and one that has to be on top of both drivers must win lists. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The  200 lap distance will add pit strategy to the mix and guarantee a cliff hanger  of a finish. Expect all the usual front runners to be on hand;\u00a0 Adam Bates,  Derek Ramstrom, Kelly Moore, Travis Benjamin, Scott Chubbuck, Chris Staples and  many , many more. It\u2019s likely that the Bastille 200 will see several surprise  entrants from the southern tier due to the special Tuesday night  schedule.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The  PASS Mods will share the bill along with Lee\u2019s own small block supermodifieds  and Iron Man series. The action gets underway at a special start time of 6:00  PM, so make plans now to be at Lee USA for the only PASS super late model stop  in Southern New Hampshire this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">All  the latest PASS news is on line at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racewithpass.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">www.racewithpass.com<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">.  <span> <\/span>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.proallstarsseries.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">www.proallstarsseries.com<\/span><\/a> .Lee USA Speedway\u2019s <span> <\/span>can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeusaspeedway.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">www.leeusaspeedway.com<\/span><\/a> . <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naples ME (July 6) The fastest full fendered race cars in the east are back! Lee USA Speedway will host the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North super late models for a special Tuesday night July 14 appearance at the Route 125 oval, and the series competitor\u2019s couldn\u2019t be more pleased with their return to [&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":[1],"tags":[77,15766],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lee-usa","tag-pass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","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=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}