{"id":9581,"date":"2012-05-01T22:30:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T02:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9581"},"modified":"2012-05-01T20:57:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T00:57:42","slug":"busy-weekend-for-austin-theriault-between-vermont-and-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/busy-weekend-for-austin-theriault-between-vermont-and-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy Weekend For Austin Theriault Between Vermont and Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BKR Development Driver 5th At Pensacola; Posts Top-10 In ACT Race<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maineracing.com\/wp\/index.php\/2012\/05\/01\/net-results-busy-weekend-austin-theriault\/\"><strong>Read Full Story on Austin Theriault on MaineRacing.Com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Planes, trains and automobiles. That&#8217;s what it felt like for Austin Theriault this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old Brad Keselowski Racing development driver hit opposite ends of the East Coast in a three-day span, posting a career-best Super Late Model finish of 5th in Florida less than 48 hours before returning to New England to post a Top-10 run in ACT Late Model Tour action at Thunder Road International Speedbowl.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a long weekend, a lot of miles and a lot of racing, but I had a lot of fun, too,\u201d Theriault said after finishing ninth Sunday in the Merchants Bank 150 at Thunder Road. \u201cThe Late Model, the Super Late Model \u2013 they both have four tires, but they really drive a lot different. At first, honestly, I don&#8217;t think I even realized how different they can be. But getting out here (at Thunder Road) and jumping into the Late Model and launching off into that first turn this weekend, it was like, &#8216;Whoa.&#8217;\u201d<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nTheriault started his week on Friday with the Papa John&#8217;s 100 at Five Flags Speedway in Pensacola, Fla. After starting 18th in the 30-car field \u2013 the second round of the Buddy&#8217;s Blizzard Series \u2013 Theriault put together a consistent start-to-finish effort to finish fifth in the BKR No. 29 Checkered Flag Foundation Dodge.<\/p>\n<p>It was his first career Top-5 in his fifth Super Late Model start for BKR.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maineracing.com\/wp\/index.php\/2012\/05\/01\/net-results-busy-weekend-austin-theriault\/\"><strong>Read Full Story on Austin Theriault on MaineRacing.Com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/NERacingForum.Com\" target=\"_blank\">NERacingForum.Com<\/a> for latest New England Racing community News and updates.<\/p>\n<p>[adrotate block=&#8221;3&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BKR Development Driver 5th At Pensacola; Posts Top-10 In ACT Race Read Full Story on Austin Theriault on MaineRacing.Com Planes, trains and automobiles. That&#8217;s what it felt like for Austin Theriault this weekend. The 18-year-old Brad Keselowski Racing development driver hit opposite ends of the East Coast in a three-day span, posting a career-best Super [&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":[55,10,126,14972],"tags":[4671],"class_list":["post-9581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-act","category-maine","category-new-england","category-touring-series-news","tag-austin-theriault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581","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=9581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}