{"id":830,"date":"2008-12-04T18:25:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T18:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=830"},"modified":"2008-12-04T18:25:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T18:25:32","slug":"green-flag-with-mike-landry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2008\/12\/green-flag-with-mike-landry\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Flag with Mike Landry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;Mike Landry always seems to be smiling at the track. and he has good reason to be smiling,<br \/>with 6 wins and 15 top five finishes&nbsp;this past season at Wiscasset Raceway.&nbsp; Though two unfortunate finishes kept him from the championship, Mike did finish out the season 3rd in points.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>RPM.<\/strong> Now that the 2008 race season is over, what are your plans for 2009? and what will you be doing until the season starts up again?<br \/><strong>Mike<\/strong>.I may be racing an lms or prostock at Wiscasset, or a sport series at Beech Ridge. Undecided. Playing poker, working on the sport series car and trying to find a late model or prostock for Wiscasset.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>RPM.<\/strong> You have competed in both local short track series and PASS Sportsman Touring Series, What are the pros &amp; cons of each?<br \/><strong>Mike.<\/strong> Local short track pros: less expensive, closer to home, developing relationships with people from the track.<br \/>Local short track cons: points racing.<br \/>Touring pros: doing well at a variety of tracks, gaining more experience as a driver, not point racing.<br \/>Touring cons: Expensive, traveling.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maineracingmedia.com\/Wis830\/DSC_1659.JPG\" alt=\" \" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><br \/><strong>RPM.<\/strong> What is your favorite track to race at?(why)<br \/><strong>Mike<\/strong>. White Mountains. Theres alot of grip, two grooves, banked, fast and fun.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>RPM.<\/strong> How did the rise in fuel prices effect you, this past season?<br \/><strong>Mike.<\/strong> Instead of running straight racing fuel, I mixed with super unleaded. <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>RPM.<\/strong> How did you get started in racing?<br \/><strong>Mike.<\/strong> I grew up watching my uncle Lyman and my cousin Dan McKeage racing at Beech Ridge, and when I was able to afford to purchase a race car, I bought one for $1500.00 race ready and have been hooked ever since.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>RPM.<\/strong> Whats most memorable moument in your racing career?<br \/><strong>Mike.<\/strong> Gettting my first win at White Mountains.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>RPM.<\/strong> If you could change on thing to improve the racing on the track what would it be?<br \/><strong>Mike.<\/strong> A softer tire and more a few more experienced drivers.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>RPM.<\/strong> Who is the toughest driver to race against for the checkered flag on the track? <br \/><strong>Mike.<\/strong> Dan McKeage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Mike Landry always seems to be smiling at the track. and he has good reason to be smiling,with 6 wins and 15 top five finishes&nbsp;this past season at Wiscasset Raceway.&nbsp; Though two unfortunate finishes kept him from the championship, Mike did finish out the season 3rd in points. RPM. Now that the 2008 race season [&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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-england-racing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","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=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}