{"id":140,"date":"2007-12-16T16:55:24","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T16:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=140"},"modified":"2007-12-16T16:55:24","modified_gmt":"2007-12-16T16:55:24","slug":"green-flag-with-pass-modified-driver-chris-staples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2007\/12\/green-flag-with-pass-modified-driver-chris-staples\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Flag with PASS Modified driver Chris Staples"},"content":{"rendered":"

            <\/span>Chris Staples has become a legend in the PASS Modified Series, with 11 career wins, which is almost more than double then any other driver in the 4 year history of series. The only driver that comes close is Jason Taylor with 7 career wins in the PASS Modified Series. Staples winning the 2006 & 2007 PASS Modified Champion is now looking towards the 2008 season.<\/span><\/font><\/span>
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            <\/span>Staples got into racing when he was only 5yrs old as a spectator, going to Oxford Plains Speedway to watch a pro-stock race car that his father was sponsoring. By the time he was 10yrs old he was Mud racing but, ended up being disqualified due to his age after  <\/span>finishing 2nd<\/sup> in one of the races.  <\/span>When Chris turned 12 and was now elagiable to race he returned to mud racing. His 2 years of competition in the mud Staples, came home with 28 trophies.  <\/span>Then its was onto the Oval tracks where he won 2 championships, and 3 “Rookie of the Year Awards”.<\/span><\/font><\/span>            <\/span><\/font><\/span> <\/font> <\/p>\n

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Name:<\/span> Chris Staples<\/font><\/strong> <\/span><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/font>Age:<\/span> 27<\/font><\/strong> <\/span><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/font>Hometown:<\/span> <\/font><\/strong>Brunswick<\/strong>, <\/strong>ME<\/strong><\/font> <\/span><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/font>Race Series:<\/span> PASS Modified Series<\/font><\/strong> <\/span><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/font>Car:<\/span> 2004 JT chassis Chevy <\/font><\/strong>Monte Carlo<\/font><\/strong> <\/span><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/font>Pit Crew:<\/span>         <\/span>Crew Chief – Kevin Sears – <\/font><\/font><\/strong> <\/span><\/font><\/font><\/strong>Pete Farley – <\/font><\/font><\/strong>   <\/span>Jay Rummery <\/font><\/font><\/strong> –   <\/span>Carl <\/font><\/strong>Huston<\/span><\/strong><\/font> <\/span><\/strong>                                                     <\/span>Hope Jipson<\/font><\/font><\/strong> –   <\/span><\/strong>Andria<\/strong> Rummery <\/strong><\/font><\/font>                                                <\/span>Chris Staples Jr<\/font><\/strong> <\/span><\/strong><\/font>Sponsors:        <\/span><\/span><\/strong>Dallas<\/strong> Oil<\/strong><\/font> <\/span><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/font>Car owners:<\/span>     <\/span>Dallas and Arlene Staples<\/font><\/strong> <\/span><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/font>Racing Stats:<\/span> 2007 PASS Modified Champion 2 win.<\/font><\/font><\/strong>                                <\/span><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

2006  <\/span>PASS Modified Champion, 4 wins.
                                <\/span>2005 Unity Modified Champion, 13 wins.
                                <\/span>2000 OPS Pro-Stock 1 win.
                                <\/span>1999 OPS Pro-Stock 2 wins.
                                <\/span>1998 OPS Pro-Stock Rookie of the Year.
                                <\/span>1997 OPS Late Model Rookie of the Year,
                                                <\/span>2 wins, 4th in points.
                                <\/span>1996 Limited Sportsman 5th in points,
                                                <\/span>13 straight top fives 2 wins.
                                <\/span>1995 Strictly Stock Rookie of the Year.<\/strong><\/strong><\/font><\/font> <\/font><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Q.<\/strong> How did you get started in racing?<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

A.<\/strong>  <\/span>My father sponsored race cars when I was little and I got hooked <\/font><\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

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Q.<\/strong> What is your most memorable moment in your racing career? <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

A.<\/strong> Finishing second in a 100 lap race after leading all day and cutting a tire with 20 to go I nursed it home with a flat right front for second.<\/font><\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

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Q.<\/strong> What's your favorite track to race at?<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

A.<\/strong> Oxford Plains Speedway I grew up there and just love the place even though I don’t like the way it’s managed.<\/font><\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

Q.<\/strong> Who was your strongest competition for the 2007 Pass Modified Championship? <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

A.<\/strong> My teammate Mark Lucas. <\/font><\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

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Q.<\/strong> What are your plans for the 2008 season? <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

A.<\/strong> The 2008 season we have not yet decided what we will be doing.  <\/span>We are kinda playing it by ear got to see how much money we can spend and that will be determined by how the winter goes. <\/font><\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

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Q.<\/strong> What do you like to do when you are not racing? <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

A.<\/strong> Over the off season I am getting married to hope we are going to the carribean for our honey moon and I have been building a 77 jeep cj5 with our kids other than that just been dreaming of gettin back in the seat in april<\/font><\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

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Q.<\/strong> Favorite type of music? <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

A.<\/strong> Rock and country.<\/font><\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

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Q.<\/strong> What do you drive when you are not driving a race car? <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

A.<\/strong>  <\/span>GMC Denali.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/font>http:\/\/www.staplesmotorsports.com<\/font><\/u><\/a><\/span><\/strong> <\/font> <\/p>\n

Information provided by Staples Motorsports, The Pro All Stars Series, and MaineRacing.com<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            Chris Staples has become a legend in the PASS Modified Series, with 11 career wins, which is almost more than double then any other driver in the 4 year history of series. The only driver that comes close is Jason Taylor with 7 career wins in the PASS Modified Series. Staples winning the 2006 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","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=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}