{"id":968,"date":"2009-07-30T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2009-07-30T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T23:57:00","slug":"hudson-race-report-72609","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/hudson-race-report-72609\/","title":{"rendered":"Hudson Race Report 7\/26\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Hudson NH &#8211; This past Sunday it was  \u201cChristmas in July\u201d at Hudson Speedway. The midseason celebration  included kids bike races, the Northeast Classic Lites, Enduros, and  the full regular racing lineup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">The  Thunder Lites kicked off the features for the evening with Jen Lord  bringing the field to the green flag.  Bobby Stirk lll muscled the lead  from Lord on lap 3.  Stirk held the point past halfway until Tyler Hatch  slipped past.  Hatch held on for his first win of the year.\u00a0 Stirk  finished second and third through fifth were Derek Griffith, Dylan Bilodeau  and Gage Harron.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Dave  McGinn brought the Northeast Classic Lites to their green flag.  Starting  in the 12<sup>th<\/sup> spot, Jimmy Ryder Jr. made quick work of the  cars in front of him making it to the lead by lap 5 with his brother,  Billy Ryder moving into second.  The Ryder boys put on a show, trading  the lead three or four times until Jimmy Ryder lost control off turn  4, spinning out and out of contention for the day.  Eric Bacon had made  an impressive run from his deep in the field starting spot to restart  next to Billy Ryder after Jimmy Ryders spin.  Bacon took the top spot  on the restart.  With five to go Ryder tried a bump and run but got  just as loose as Bacon, but that was Ryders last chance as he had to  watch from behind as Bacon drove under the checkers first.  Third through  tenth were Jon Provost, Jeremy Wilcox, Steve Dickey, Dennis Obrien,  Jeff Miller, Ryder Jr., Ralph Cook and Paul Colson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Billy  Clement took the early lead in the Rookie Feature before relinquishing  the top spot to Larry Fortin.  Fortin handed the lead over to John Morin  with two time champion Scotty Duval moving into 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place.   But Duval could only chase Morin to the stripe settling 2<sup>nd<\/sup>.   The rest of the top ten were Dan Murphy Jr., Heath Toutellotte, Clement,  Dean Wendell, Corrie Merritt Jr., Mark Nevers and Fortin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> Points leader Jef James added to his lead by winning the Roadrunner  main.  Patrick D\u2019Alba, Darren Jacobs, Anthony Nadeau and Eric Miller  rounded out the top five.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Leon  Keniston won the 4 cyl. Endure followed by Darren Jacobs, Matt Apkarin,  Nick Pappas and Bob Fields.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Grand  Enduro top 5 were Ed Flanigan, Dave McCarthy, Scott Douphinette, Mark  Nevers and Corrie Merritt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Ronnie  Lord Jr. won both the Flagpole Race and the Spectator Drags.  Matt Apkarian  won the Spectator Race.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">The  next races, Aug 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, features the return of the Outlaw Sportsman,  plus the V-6 Modifieds, and as always, the Rookies , Roadrunners, Thunder  Lites, Spectator Race, Spectator Drags, and Flagpole Race.\u00a0 Gates  open at 4pm with the first race at 6pm.\u00a0 Please visit <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hudsonspeedway.info\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;color: #0000ff;font-size: small\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">www.HudsonSpeedway.info<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> for more info.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hudson NH &#8211; This past Sunday it was \u201cChristmas in July\u201d at Hudson Speedway. The midseason celebration included kids bike races, the Northeast Classic Lites, Enduros, and the full regular racing lineup. The Thunder Lites kicked off the features for the evening with Jen Lord bringing the field to the green flag. 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