{"id":7531,"date":"2012-05-21T20:42:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T00:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracing.com\/wp\/?p=7531"},"modified":"2012-05-21T20:42:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T00:42:45","slug":"lee-usa-speedway-upcoming-event-may-25th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2012\/05\/lee-usa-speedway-upcoming-event-may-25th\/","title":{"rendered":"LEE USA SPEEDWAY UPCOMING EVENT ON MAY 25th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maineracing.com\/wp\/index.php\/2012\/04\/23\/lee-usa-speedway-2012\/lee\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7092\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/maineracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/lee.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"lee\" width=\"150\" height=\"50\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7092\" \/><\/a>This Friday night, May 25th, the Lee USA Speedway will honor our nation&#8217;s veterans by presenting its 5th Annual Veterans&#8217;  Night along with the regular NASCAR Whelen weekly racing program.  All veterans and active duty military personnel will be admitted free.<\/p>\n<p>For the second year in a row, the tribute will feature the Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Riders, dedicated to veterans and veterans&#8217; issues.  Motorcycle riders will depart from The Chop Shop in Seabrook, NH at 6:15PM and arrive at the speedway at about 7:00PM.  All proceeds from the ride will go to assisting returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan.  The Memorial Day weekend celebration will continue at 7:00PM with an honor guard and a 21 gun salute.  Representatives of the VFW, DAV, and American Legion will also be present.<br \/>\n<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>All four regular NASCAR Whelen Weekly Racing Series divisions will also be in action Friday night.  Tom Tombarello will be out to make it two in a row after his win in the Benson Hardware Small Block Supermodified feature a week ago.  Previous week&#8217;s winner, Mike Ordway, and defending champ, Wayne Heliwell, Jr., will also be in the chase.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Storage Late Model Sportsman driver JR Baril will be looking for his third straight after narrowly prevailing in his division&#8217;s feature a week ago.  Rivals, Boe Green and Grant Aither, are expected to make their first appearance of the season to thwart Baril&#8217;s rampage.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Williams, Patrick Tanguay, and Brian Thompson will head the David&#8217;s Race Cars and Components Hobby Stock division and Jake Rheaume, Evan Horvath, and Danielle Simoneau will star in the American Auto Ironman division.  Action starts at 7:15PM. Kids under 12 are always free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Friday night, May 25th, the Lee USA Speedway will honor our nation&#8217;s veterans by presenting its 5th Annual Veterans&#8217; Night along with the regular NASCAR Whelen weekly racing program. All veterans and active duty military personnel will be admitted free. For the second year in a row, the tribute will feature the Rolling Thunder [&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":[52],"class_list":["post-7531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lee-speedway","category-maine-racing-news","category-new-england-racing-news","tag-lee-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7531","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=7531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}