{"id":17173,"date":"2017-05-16T13:04:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T17:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/?p=17173"},"modified":"2017-05-16T13:04:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T17:04:29","slug":"300000-prize-money-offered-season-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2017\/05\/300000-prize-money-offered-season-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"Over $300,000 in prize money offered this season at Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7092\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/lee.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LEE, NH:\u00a0 The 2017 <span data-term=\"goog_459293794\">Friday<\/span> night racing season opens <span data-term=\"goog_459293795\">this Friday\u00a0<\/span>night at Lee USA Speedway where a track-record $339,000 in prize money has been posted for various divisions competing at scheduled events.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The weekly <span data-term=\"goog_459293796\">Friday<\/span> night races start at <span data-term=\"goog_459293797\">7:00pm<\/span> with practice sessions beginning at <span data-term=\"goog_459293798\">5:00pm<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Winged super-modifieds again will be the NASCAR championship point division this season at Lee, running weekly qualifying heat races and 30-lap feature events. Winners of each 30-lap feature are guaranteed a minimum $1,000 with $700 for second and $400 for third.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This season&#8217;s weekly <span data-term=\"goog_459293799\">Friday<\/span> night purses amount to $180,000. In addition, three scheduled Valenti modified races, all scheduled as twin 50-lap main events, and are worth $57,000 in prize money. The 23rd annual Ollie Silva<\/p>\n<p>Memorial Classic for the International Super-Modified Association (ISMA) offers a $37,500 purse for 24 starters in that 75-lap event on August 11<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The Granite State Pro Stock Tour has two events at Lee this season for $19,000 in prize money. The Pro All-Star Series (PASS) makes two appearances for nearly $20,000 and the American-Canadian Tour Governor&#8217;s Cup 150 also hit over $20,000.<\/p>\n<p>The season-ending point standings will determine another $23,636 in prize money for the top 10 drivers in each division.<\/p>\n<p>Purses for weekly <span data-term=\"goog_459293800\">Friday<\/span> night events are based on car counts in each racing division. Currently $335,680 is posted this season. That purse structure could increase by another $20,000 depending on how many additional cars compete as the season progresses.<\/p>\n<p>Along with weekly 30-lap main events in the super-modified and sportsman late model divisions, Hobby stocks will run 25-lap features while &#8220;Ironmen&#8221; and pure stocks will each have 20-lap main events.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Spectator ticket prices will remain unchanged for the third consecutive season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LEE, NH:\u00a0 The 2017 Friday night racing season opens this Friday\u00a0night at Lee USA Speedway where a track-record $339,000 in prize money has been posted for various divisions competing at scheduled events. &nbsp; The weekly Friday night races start at 7:00pm with practice sessions beginning at 5:00pm. \u00a0 Winged super-modifieds again will be 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":[45,6],"tags":[949],"class_list":["post-17173","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\/17173","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=17173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17174,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17173\/revisions\/17174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}