{"id":14805,"date":"2015-05-23T12:42:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T16:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/?p=14805"},"modified":"2015-05-23T12:42:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T16:42:19","slug":"busy-weekend-on-tap-for-derek-griffith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2015\/05\/busy-weekend-on-tap-for-derek-griffith\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy Weekend On Tap For Derek Griffith"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14806\" style=\"width: 338px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14806\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14806\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Griffith-in-VL2015-e1432399208249.jpg\" alt=\"photo by Chris Cormie\" width=\"328\" height=\"156\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo by Chris Cormie<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Hudson, NH) \u2013 Derek Griffith Racing has a very busy weekend ahead, first the 18-year-old driver will try to maintain his slim Granite State Pro Stick Series (GSPSS) point lead as the series visit\u2019s Monadnock Speedway for the first time in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The turnaround will be quick as the team will also travel to the \u201cNation\u2019s Site of Excitement\u201d,\u00a0Barre, Vermont\u2019s Thunder Road Speedbowl for the first-ever 150-lap Pro All Stars Series (PASS) Super Late Model race.<\/p>\n<p>Griffith currently is on a hot streak and the driver hopes to continue that at Monadnock, he goes on to explain, \u201cWe have a win and a second place finish to start the GSPSS season, another podium at Monadnock would be great. I know we\u2019ll have the car to do it. My Crew Chief Louie [Mechalides] always has a great set-up for this bullring.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Once the Monadnock 100-lap GSPSS is over, the Hudson, NH native will have to quickly travel back to the shop and load up the PASS Super Late Model and make the 2 hour trek up north to the legendary Thunder Road Speedbowl.<\/p>\n<p>Derek talks about racing at Thunder Road, \u201cThis is going to be so awesome, I never thought I would see the day when both the American Canadian Tour and PASS would work together, I mean PASS at Thunder Road? How great is this? I\u2019ve never raced there and hopefully I can steal some of the luck we had at Claremont, where we won and bring it up north.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The No. 12, The Club\/LCM Racing Toyota Camry last competed with PASS on May 9th where he finished in 12<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0place out of a very stout 30-car field at Star Speedway in Epping, NH.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow updates from Monadnock and Thunder Road on Derek\u2019s Facebook page at <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/derekgriffith18\">facebook.com\/derekgriffith18<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The action from Monadnock Speedway is scheduled to start at <span data-term=\"goog_1901456171\">6pm<\/span> on Saturday May 23<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0and postime from Thunder Road Speedbowl is set for <span data-term=\"goog_1901456172\">Sunday<\/span> at <span data-term=\"goog_1901456173\">1:30pm<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on both events, please visit the series\u2019 websites at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gspss.net\/\">www.gspss.net<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.proallstarsseries.com\/\">www.proallstarsseries.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Hudson, NH) \u2013 Derek Griffith Racing has a very busy weekend ahead, first the 18-year-old driver will try to maintain his slim Granite State Pro Stick Series (GSPSS) point lead as the series visit\u2019s Monadnock Speedway for the first time in 2015. The turnaround will be quick as the team will also travel to the [&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":[100,6,4],"tags":[911],"class_list":["post-14805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-granite-state-series","category-new-england-racing-news","category-latest-touring-news","tag-granite-state-pro-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14805","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=14805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14807,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14805\/revisions\/14807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}