{"id":13468,"date":"2014-07-02T11:43:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T15:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/?p=13468"},"modified":"2014-07-02T11:43:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T15:43:52","slug":"derek-griffith-overcomes-early-misfortune-post-5th-place-finish-star-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2014\/07\/derek-griffith-overcomes-early-misfortune-post-5th-place-finish-star-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Griffith overcomes early misfortune to post a 5th place finish at Star Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_13469\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13469\" class=\"wp-image-13469 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Derek-at-Star-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"Derek at Star\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Derek-at-Star-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Derek-at-Star.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13469\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PR\/Photos &#8211; Eric LaFleche<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Epping, NH &#8211;\u00a0 17 Year-old Pro Stock driver, Derek Griffith overcame two flat tires during the June 28, 2014 Granite State Pro Stock Series 100 lap event from Star Speedway to post a 5<sup>th<\/sup> place finish.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;\"><\/div>\n<div>Derek started 5<sup>th<\/sup> in the feature event and suffered a flat left-rear tire at lap 20. A pit-stop to change the tire forced the No. 12 MOM\u2019s of Manchester\/LCM Racing Toyota Camry to lose a lap. Griffith fought the ill-handling car into a top-10 spot, when on lap 28 another tire went down.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;\"><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div>During another pit-stop to change the second flat tire, the crew made some adjustments which worked well and as the race continued, Derek was one of the fastest cars on the track. Derek commented, \u201cI can\u2019t thank my crew enough, Louie [Crew Chief Louie Mechalides] made all the right adjustments and we were very fast until around lap 80, when we got involved in an accident and bent a spindle.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Derek was still able to drive through the spindle adversity and race his way to a top-5 finish.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cI am really looking forward to our next GSPSS race, which is at Lee USA Speedway on <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1729661049\"><span class=\"aQJ\">July 25th<\/span><\/span>, but from now until then, we will be bringing our new Super Late Model up to Oxford Plains Speedway and attempting to qualify for the Oxford 250. I can\u2019t tell you how exciting I am to get this opportunity\u201d, said Griffith.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Derek currently sits 4<sup>th<\/sup> in the points race with the Granite State Pro Stock Series, just 44 points out of 1<sup>st<\/sup> place.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Follow Derek on Facebook at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DerekGriffith18\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/<wbr \/>DerekGriffith18<\/a> and Twitter at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/DerekGriffith12\" target=\"_blank\">www.twitter.com\/<wbr \/>DerekGriffith12<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epping, NH &#8211;\u00a0 17 Year-old Pro Stock driver, Derek Griffith overcame two flat tires during the June 28, 2014 Granite State Pro Stock Series 100 lap event from Star Speedway to post a 5th place finish. Derek started 5th in the feature event and suffered a flat left-rear tire at lap 20. A pit-stop to [&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":[100,4],"tags":[1227,1160],"class_list":["post-13468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-granite-state-series","category-latest-touring-news","tag-derek-griffith","tag-granite-state-legends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468","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=13468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}