{"id":12700,"date":"2014-03-22T12:58:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T16:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/?p=12700"},"modified":"2014-03-22T12:58:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T16:58:45","slug":"lee-usa-speedway-announces-additional-division-2014-racing-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2014\/03\/lee-usa-speedway-announces-additional-division-2014-racing-season\/","title":{"rendered":"LEE USA SPEEDWAY ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL DIVISION FOR 2014 RACING SEASON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7092\" alt=\"lee\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/lee.gif\" width=\"150\" height=\"50\" \/>Lee USA Speedway announces the addition of the 4 Cylinder Ironman division to the 2014 season.\u00a0 This division will participating in the Division V level for the NASCAR Whelen All American Racing Series.\u00a0 The sister division to the new division is the V6 Ironman series.\u00a0 The V6 Ironman series will continue as the Division IV representative from Lee USA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">The rules package for the new division is very similar to the V6 Ironman.\u00a0 The speedway tech department has worked to identify a set of rules that can allow the 4 cylinders to have a division within the NASCAR sanctioned events in the State of New Hampshire and possible recognition at the national level if found to be in the top 100 from the division across the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">One of the deviations from the V6 Ironman rule book is the inclusion (in a controlled manner) of foreign models, as an example the Honda.\u00a0 As tech has pointed out this is a Pure Stock division met to allow the beginner a place to gain experience at an affordable cost.\u00a0 To quote tech, \u201cwe will not allow the special high performance package vehicles\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">This 4 cylinder Ironman Division will compete along with the V6 Ironman Division under the\u00a0 Benson\u2019s Lumber and Hardware Sponsorship umbrella.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">The tech department will have the final review of the rules complete and ready to post early next week<a name=\"144e670ecb192ee8__GoBack\"><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee USA Speedway announces the addition of the 4 Cylinder Ironman division to the 2014 season.\u00a0 This division will participating in the Division V level for the NASCAR Whelen All American Racing Series.\u00a0 The sister division to the new division is the V6 Ironman series.\u00a0 The V6 Ironman series will continue as the Division IV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,6],"tags":[949],"class_list":["post-12700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lee-speedway","category-new-england-racing-news","tag-lee-speedway-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}