{"id":490,"date":"2010-06-16T18:50:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T18:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=490"},"modified":"2010-06-16T18:50:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T18:50:10","slug":"joey-doiron-pass-north-series-unity-raceway-race-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2010\/06\/joey-doiron-pass-north-series-unity-raceway-race-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Joey Doiron: PASS North Series Unity Raceway Race Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p \/>PASS North Series Rookie of the Year candidate Joey Doiron of Berwick,  Maine, tries to shake off last week when the series heads to Unity  Raceway for the PASS 150 on Sunday, June 20. Doiron posted consecutive  top-10 finishes at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway and White Mountain  Motorsports Park to start the season, but was involved in an accident  early in a 200-lap event at Speedway 660 last weekend. He has never  raced at Unity Raceway in a Super Late Model, having posted a top-5 at  the track in a Sportsman division car a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHO:<\/strong> Joey Doiron, Berwick, Maine<br \/><strong>TEAM:<\/strong> JBJ Machine\/Rescue  Welding\/Dale Shaw Race Cars No. 73 Dodge<br \/><strong>BEST CAREER UNITY RACEWAY  FINISH:<\/strong> N\/A<br \/><strong>LAST RACE AT UNITY RACEWAY:<\/strong> N\/A<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT:<\/strong> PASS North Series PASS 150<br \/><strong>WHERE:<\/strong> Unity Raceway, Unity, Maine  (.333-mile oval)<br \/><strong>WHEN:<\/strong> 3 p.m., Sunday, June 20<\/p>\n<p><strong>PASS  NORTH SERIES<\/strong><br \/><strong>LAST RACE:<\/strong> June 12, Speedway 660,  Fredericton, New Brunswick (25th-place finish)<br \/><strong>NEXT RACE:<\/strong> Saturday, July 3, Canaan Speedway, Canaan, N.H.<br \/><strong><br \/>**********<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JOEY,  WHAT&#8217;S THE BEST WAY TO CHARACTERIZE YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT LAST WEEKEND?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Frustrated.  You&#8217;d think at this level of racing with these caliber drivers on lap 8  (of 200) you\u2019d have a little give and take. I can understand if it&#8217;s  halfway through the race or you&#8217;re racing for the top-5 at the end &#8212;  but that early in the race, give them a lift or something.<\/p>\n<p>I  don\u2019t know if I could have beaten Johnny (Clark), but I think we could  have been up there with (second- and third-place finishers) Cassius  Clark and Lonnie Sommerville at the end. It&#8217;s good that we had another  good car at a track we hadn&#8217;t been to, but it still leaves a sour taste  to get wrecked on lap 8.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU TESTED AT UNITY BEFORE THE  START OF THE SEASON. WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE TRACK?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You  want to bring a mouth guard for all the bumps. I raced a Sportsman car  once and finished fifth, but those cars are a lot easier to drive there.  I hit the dirt bank twice last week (at Speedway 660), hopefully that  was enough and I won\u2019t hit them this week.<\/p>\n<p>We learned a couple of  things setup-wise during the test &#8212; especially what we can\u2019t do. I  hadn&#8217;t raced on it for a couple of years, and I&#8217;d kind of forgotten  where the bumps were. It only took a couple of laps to get acquainted  with that again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HAVE YOU RAISED YOUR EXPECTATIONS AFTER  SUCH A GOOD START TO YOUR ROOKIE SEASON?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not at Unity, not  with how rough it is there. I haven&#8217;t raced on a rough race track in a  Super Late Model yet. I&#8217;m really going in there this weekend with no  expectations other than to keep it on the pavement the whole time. <\/p>\n<p>If  I can get out of there without much damage, we&#8217;ll probably end up  having a decent finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASS North Series Rookie of the Year candidate Joey Doiron of Berwick, Maine, tries to shake off last week when the series heads to Unity Raceway for the PASS 150 on Sunday, June 20. Doiron posted consecutive top-10 finishes at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway and White Mountain Motorsports Park to start the season, but was [&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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","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=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}