{"id":17783,"date":"2017-09-15T09:54:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T13:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/?p=17783"},"modified":"2017-09-15T09:54:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T13:54:46","slug":"season-championships-26000-line-final-friday-night-races-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2017\/09\/season-championships-26000-line-final-friday-night-races-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Season Championships, $26,000 on line in final Friday night races of 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16384\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16384\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16384\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/160729-lee-7-e1470104263773.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo by Rich Hayes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>LEE, NH:\u00a0 Season point championships, approximately $26,000 in prize\u00a0and point money, plus five feature races all highlight the final night\u00a0race of the 2017 season\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_768669283\">this Friday<\/span>\u00a0here at Lee USA Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>Super-modifieds, late model sportsmen, pure stocks, hobby stocks\u00a0and Ironmen stocks all will be in action along with the championship\u00a0showdown spectator race, offering a hugh trophy to the winner.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Helliwell, of Salem, N.H., has a commanding lead in the winged\u00a0super-modified division driving the No.21 Witkum Brothers car from Salisbury.\u00a0However, the 30-lap feature will decide plenty of point money from second\u00a0place through 12th in the 2017 standings.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Leslie Keyser, Raymond, N.H., Mike Keddy, also of Raymond, John Burke, of Derry, and veteran Moe Lattime, of Kingston, are just 30 points apart\u00a0running second through fifth going into\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_768669284\">Friday<\/span>\u00a0night. Groveland&#8217;s Pat Murphy,\u00a0Mike Spurling, of Rochester, and Jim Barker are next, only 19 points apart.\u00a0Tommy Tombarello, Mike Netishen, Mike Murphy and Mike Scott are in spoiler<br \/>\nroles.<\/p>\n<p>Frankie Eldredge, of Stratham, has a 43-point lead in the late model\u00a0sportsmen division but only 30 points separate second through fifth between\u00a0Bryan Kruczek, Jay Sands, Kris Miller and Jimmy Russell.<\/p>\n<p>A 30-lap feature will be run in the late models and a 25-lap feature\u00a0will determine the hobby stock title with Boe Green, Berwick, Maine, leading\u00a0Pelham&#8217;s Paul Palen by 20 points.<\/p>\n<p>Christin Destefano of Tewksbury has a one-point lead in the Ironmen\u00a0class over Travis Hollis, of Milford, and Adam Knowles of Seabrook is only\u00a019 off the pace.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Mailhot; Anthony Nadeau and John Boomhower make up the top\u00a0three in the Pure Stock class with a 20-lap main event determining that title.<\/p>\n<p><span data-term=\"goog_768669285\">Friday<\/span>\u00a0night&#8217;s season finale starts at\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_768669286\">7pm<\/span>\u00a0with practice starting<br \/>\nat\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_768669287\">5pm<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEE, NH:\u00a0 Season point championships, approximately $26,000 in prize\u00a0and point money, plus five feature races all highlight the final night\u00a0race of the 2017 season\u00a0this Friday\u00a0here at Lee USA Speedway. Super-modifieds, late model sportsmen, pure stocks, hobby stocks\u00a0and Ironmen stocks all will be in action along with the championship\u00a0showdown spectator race, offering a hugh trophy 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":[45,18,6],"tags":[949],"class_list":["post-17783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lee-speedway","category-maine-racing-news","category-new-england-racing-news","tag-lee-speedway-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17783","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=17783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17784,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17783\/revisions\/17784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}