{"id":1422,"date":"2010-05-03T23:40:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T23:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2010-05-03T23:40:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T23:40:54","slug":"may-7th-hanicapped-starts-and-act-tour-date-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2010\/05\/may-7th-hanicapped-starts-and-act-tour-date-release\/","title":{"rendered":"MAY 7th HANICAPPED STARTS AND ACT TOUR DATE RELEASE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p \/>LEE, NH &#8211; With the season opening event in the rear view mirror, the LEE  USA<br \/> Speedway resumes racing this Friday night with another NASCAR Whelen<br \/> All-American Series event, featuring handicapped starting positions for  all<br \/> competitors.<\/p>\n<p> Last week the feature event winners in the E Keys 4 Cars Late Model,  Prime<br \/> Storage Late Model Sportsman, and P. B. Chopper Shop and Rod Small Block<br \/> Supermodifieds all started their respective races near the front of the<br \/> field. If they are going to repeat this Friday, they will have to earn  it,<br \/> as New Hampshire&#8217;s Center of Speed is throwing out the traditional three<br \/> week wait to start handicapping the lineups.<br \/>\n<br \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Our fans love to see passing and side-by-side racing, and so do I,&#8221;  stated<br \/> track owner Red MacDonald. &#8220;This will guarantee that! not only for this<br \/> Friday night, but for the rest of the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> In addition to the increased passing, the race fields are expected to<br \/> increase this week as well, with several drivers who were not able to  make<br \/> the season opening event expressing their intentions to compete in this<br \/> second event in 2010.<\/p>\n<p> The Picnic Table Factory Hobby Stocks, David&#8217;s Race Cars and Components  Road<br \/> Runners and the American Auto Parts Ironman divisions will also be on  the<br \/> card. They will be joined this week by an appearance from the Classic  Lites,<br \/> who brought a high car count to the three-eighths mile oval for the  &#8220;Test<br \/> and Tune&#8221; practice day in April.<\/p>\n<p> Just confirmed today is the rescheduled date for the American-Canadian  Tour<br \/> (ACT) race at Lee USA Speedway. On Friday, June 11th the ACT Tour is<br \/> expected to bring in over 50 race teams to compete in a very special  150-lap<br \/> event.<\/p>\n<p> Race fans can look forward to seeing all of the stars from the ACT,<br \/> including Nick Sweet, who raced to victory in the season opening event  at<br \/> Thunder Road (VT) on Sunday after he qualified through one of the<br \/> consolation races.<\/p>\n<p> Due to the large ACT car count expected, a few of the NASCAR Whelen<br \/> All-American Series divisions will be given the night off on June 11 to<br \/> allow time for the numerous competitive qualifying events that come with  an<br \/> ACT Tour race. Tentatively, the Late Model, Late Model Sportsman and  Hobby<br \/> Stock divisions will be in action on June 11th.<\/p>\n<p> For more information updates on the ACT tour event log onto:<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acttour.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.acttour.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> This Friday night the Lee USA Speedway should be lit up with excitement,  as<br \/> NASCAR action in New Hampshire returns to its Friday night home for  another<br \/> exciting night of competition.<\/p>\n<p> Log onto: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeusaspeedway.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.leeusaspeedway.com<\/a> for further updates, and the race night<br \/> schedule of events as each event approaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEE, NH &#8211; With the season opening event in the rear view mirror, the LEE USA Speedway resumes racing this Friday night with another NASCAR Whelen All-American Series event, featuring handicapped starting positions for all competitors. Last week the feature event winners in the E Keys 4 Cars Late Model, Prime Storage Late Model Sportsman, [&hellip;]<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-canadian-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","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=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}