{"id":8039,"date":"2011-09-24T07:41:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T11:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2011-09-24T07:41:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T11:41:13","slug":"moffitt-title-hopes-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/moffitt-title-hopes-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Moffitt Keeps Title Hopes Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wins rain-shortened K&#038;N Pro Series East race at New Hampshire<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LOUDON, N.H. &#8212; Brett Moffitt kept his NASCAR K&#038;N Pro Series East title hopes alive with a rain-shortened win in the New Hampshire 125 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Moffitt led a race-high 53 laps en route to his seventh career win and first at the &#8220;Magic Mile.&#8221; The Michael Waltrip Racing development driver cut the points lead of Joe Gibbs Racing&#8217;s Max Gresham to 21 entering the season finale Friday, Sept. 30 at Dover International Speedway.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nGresham, who had a 65-point lead entering the race weekend, finished seventh Friday. The race was called after 78 laps due to rain and darkness.<\/p>\n<p>Revolution Racing teammates Sergio Pe\u00f1a and Darrell Wallace Jr. finished second and third, respectively. Wallace won the 21 Means 21 Pole Award presented by Coors Light in Thursday&#8217;s qualifying and led the first 15 laps Friday. Matt DiBenedetto was fourth and Eddie MacDonald fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Corey LaJoie finished sixth, followed by Gresham, Daniel Su\u00e1rez, Brandon Gdovic and Brandon McReynolds.<\/p>\n<p>The New Hampshire 125 will air on SPEED on Thursday, Sept. 29.<\/p>\n<p>Moffitt is the two-time defending race winner of the Dover 150, which will conclude the 2011 NASCAR K&#038;N Pro Series East season in Dover, Del.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wins rain-shortened K&#038;N Pro Series East race at New Hampshire LOUDON, N.H. &#8212; Brett Moffitt kept his NASCAR K&#038;N Pro Series East title hopes alive with a rain-shortened win in the New Hampshire 125 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway Friday. Moffitt led a race-high 53 laps en route to his seventh career win and first [&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":[45,4456,126,112,16],"tags":[31,15775,15769],"class_list":["post-8039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","category-nascar-kn-pro-series","category-new-england","category-new-hampshire","category-nhms","tag-brett-moffitt","tag-nascar","tag-nhms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039","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=8039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}