{"id":9165,"date":"2012-02-21T21:29:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T02:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9165"},"modified":"2012-02-21T21:29:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T02:29:31","slug":"kevin-chaffee-lands-full-time-usac-dma-midget-ride-at-bear-ridge-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/kevin-chaffee-lands-full-time-usac-dma-midget-ride-at-bear-ridge-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Chaffee Lands Full Time USAC DMA Midget Ride at Bear Ridge Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY MARK McKEON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BRADFORD, VT \u2013 \u201cThe Fairlee Flier,\u201d Kevin Chaffee of Fairlee, Vermont Motorsports Magazine 2011 Driver of the Year, has landed a season-long ride in the 2011 USAC Dirt Midget Association championship winning team at Bear Ridge Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re happy to welcome Kevin to the Seals-It team on a full time basis in 2012,\u201d said team owner and New England Auto Racing Hall of Fame member Skip Matczak of Ellington, CT.  \u201cKevin did a great job last year, finishing second his first time out and then going on to win two features.  He has a great work ethic, really knows how to get around Bear Ridge Speedway and has a loyal following among the fans.\u201d<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nChafee joins Seals-It teammates Denny Zimmerman, a former Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year, and Joe Krawiec, who won the inaugural USAC DMA championship at Bear Ridge Speedway last season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really appreciate the opportunity that Skip has given me,\u201d Chafee said. \u201cIt\u2019s a great car and the support and advice I\u2019ve gotten from Denny and Joe is something that money can\u2019t buy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The USAC DMA Midgets will race at Bear Ridge Speedway every other Saturday night starting with the track\u2019s season opener on May 5 and ending with the New England Dirt Track Championships on September 22. <\/p>\n<p>Utilizing a 4 cyl General Motors Quad 4 engine in a conventional, wingless Midget Chassis, the USAC DMA Midgets are among the most cost effective forms of racing available to a weekend warrior.  Due to their affiliation with USAC, DMA Midget car owners will receive free ethanol racing fuel in 2012 through a partnership with IgniteRacingFuel.com.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the USAC DMA Midgets, visit dmaracing.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY MARK McKEON BRADFORD, VT \u2013 \u201cThe Fairlee Flier,\u201d Kevin Chaffee of Fairlee, Vermont Motorsports Magazine 2011 Driver of the Year, has landed a season-long ride in the 2011 USAC Dirt Midget Association championship winning team at Bear Ridge Speedway. \u201cWe\u2019re happy to welcome Kevin to the Seals-It team on a full time basis in [&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":[4154,126,200],"tags":[14977,4670],"class_list":["post-9165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bear-ridge","category-new-england","category-vermont","tag-bear-ridge-vermont","tag-usac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9165","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=9165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}