{"id":2100,"date":"2010-09-07T01:42:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T01:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2010-09-07T01:42:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T01:42:53","slug":"johnny-clark-dominates-auto-value-250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2010\/09\/johnny-clark-dominates-auto-value-250\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Clark Dominates Auto Value 250"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Johnny Clark Dominates Auto Value 250<br \/>Clark Pockets More Than $26,000 In Win At Speedway 660<\/span><\/p>\n<p>GEARY,  N.B. &#8212; Johnny Clark couldn&#8217;t have scripted it any better. Heck, even  noted Hollywood director Steven Spielberg couldn&#8217;t have.<\/p>\n<p>Clark  thoroughly dominated the competition Sunday night at Speedway 660,  leading all but a handful of laps en route to his second career Auto  Value 250 win. Counting the win purse, the bonus paid to the leader at  the halfway mark and lap leader earnings, Clark pocketed a total of  $26,300 in the open competition for Super Late Model\/Pro Stock cars.<br \/>\n<br \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The four-time PASS North Series champion and current series points leader previously won the Auto Value 250 in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The  first one was pretty awesome, but this one is, too,&#8221; said Clark, whose  No. 54 Clark&#8217;s Car Crushing Chevrolet started fifth in the 28-car field.  &#8220;This was way more of a dominant performance. I would have to say this  one means more right now after the way we did this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It shows  where (crew chief Robert Green) and I and the whole team are right now  after working together for a few years. This is just unbelievable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It  took Clark fewer than 20 laps to grab the lead, where he stayed until  he and the leaders pitted for fresh tires with 70 laps remaining. Clark  won the race out of the pits and restarted fourth in the running order.  He made contact with Shawn Turple while racing for the lead shortly  after the restart and was sent to the rear as a penalty from race  officials.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I messed up. I got into him,&#8221; Clark said. &#8220;I  completely got sideways. I didn&#8217;t mean to, and I&#8217;m just glad he got back  up to finish second.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From there, Clark battled back and reclaimed the top spot with less than 40 laps remaining.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything  has to fall right into place to win one of these 250s anywhere you go,&#8221;  Clark said. &#8220;This was unbelieveble. The car was just phenomenal, and we  couldn&#8217;t have scripted it any better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clark now has five  career victories in races with distances of 250 laps or more &#8212; having  won the DNK 250 at Unity Raceway in 2004, this race in 2007 and again in  2010, and both the Toyota Tundra 250 at Wiscasset Raceway and the PASS  300 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Clark Dominates Auto Value 250Clark Pockets More Than $26,000 In Win At Speedway 660 GEARY, N.B. &#8212; Johnny Clark couldn&#8217;t have scripted it any better. Heck, even noted Hollywood director Steven Spielberg couldn&#8217;t have. Clark thoroughly dominated the competition Sunday night at Speedway 660, leading all but a handful of laps en route to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maine-racing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}